The Table 1 presents important summary statistics of daily returns of the 50 selected stocks.
Three stocks out of five stocks selected from the textile sector (GULT, FTHM, and DWTM) have the
smallest sample size. The firms from Banking and Energy sector (ACBL, MCB, PSOC, SNGC, KESC)
have the most frequently traded stocks. The results reported in column 3 shows that only 6 out of 50
have significant positive mean return. Among these 6 stocks NESTLE has the maximum, positive and
significant mean value (0.26%). The estimates of standard deviation are significant at 1% for all the
firms except for the SEMF. The most frequently traded stocks have smaller values of standard
deviation for most of the cases. The results reported in column 4 show that the negative value of
skewness is not significant for any stock. There are 16 stocks out of 50 with significant positive value
of skewness. The values of excess kurtosis presented in column 6 indicate very clearly that all the
stocks have leptokurtic behavior which is described as fat tails in the literature. The estimates of the JB
(Jarque-Bara) test given in the last column are consistent with the results of excess kurtosis that is all
stocks deviate from normality. Thus the main features of data are that returns are on average positive,
volatile, asymmetry and have fat tails.