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How do you calculate the volatility of a stock's return?

Posted at: 2014-12-05 
Stock X has an average realised return of 24.8% and stock Z has an average realised return of -3.1%. The variances for stock X and stock Z are 0.125447467 and 0.032239975 respectively. Covariance is 0.045469287.

Whar is the volatility on Stock Z's returns