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2. Beta (finance) - Wikipedia

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   In finance, the beta (β or market beta or beta coefficient) is a statistic that measures the expected increase or decrease of an individual stock price in proportion to movements of the stock market as a whole. Beta can be used to indicate the contribution of an individual asset to the market risk of a portfolio when it is

3. What Beta Means: Understanding a Stock’s Risk - AOL

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   A stock’s beta doesn’t tell investors exactly how it is going to trade, but it is a good gauge of how volatile it will be against various market backdrops. Investors looking to leverage their ...

4. How to use beta to evaluate a stock’s risk - AOL

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   Beta is a way of measuring a stock’s volatility compared with the overall market’s volatility. By definition, the market as a whole has a beta of 1, and everything else is defined in relation ...

5. Alpha vs. beta in investing: What’s the difference? - AOL

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   Beta, or the beta coefficient, measures volatility relative to the market and can be used as a risk measure. By definition, the market always has a beta of 1, so betas above 1 are considered more ...

6. Alternative beta - Wikipedia

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   Although alternative investment is a general term, (commonly defined as any investment other than stocks, bonds or cash), alternative beta relates to the use of hedge funds. At its most basic, a hedge fund is an investment vehicle that pools capital from a number of investors and invests in securities and other instruments. [ 2 ]

7. Earnings response coefficient - Wikipedia

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   Reasons for differential market response: Beta: The more risk related to the firm's expected returns the lower will be the investor's reactions to a given amount of unexpected earnings.(Note: beta shows risk of a security so you can assume that a high beta means a high risk).

8. Negative-Beta Stocks: Worth Buying? - AOL

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   Investors always want great returns with minimal risk. One way that stock analysts measure risk is by looking at what's known as beta values, with higher betas representing more volatile stocks.

9. Downside beta - Wikipedia

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   In investing, downside beta is the beta that measures a stock's association with the overall stock market only on days when the market’s return is negative. Downside beta was first proposed by Roy 1952 [ 1 ] and then popularized in an investment book by Markowitz (1959) .