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Learn how to calculate Value at Risk (VaR) to effectively assess financial risks in portfolios, using historical, variance-covariance, and Monte Carlo methods.

As with the present value of an annuity, you can calculate the future value of an annuity by turning to an online calculator, formula, spreadsheet or annuity table. You’ll need this information: ...

Calculate the expected annual return of your portfolio in Microsoft Excel by using the value and expected rate of return of each investment.

There's money to be made in accurately estimating expected future total returns in the stock market. To understand how to do this for stocks, we have to break total return down into its components.

Calculating the future expected stock price can be useful to predict where certain stocks are headed, but no single equation can be used universally.

Below, we'll show you how to calculate the present value of a stream of free cash flows expected over several years. Image source: Getty Images.