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  2. Beta (finance) - Wikipedia

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    Beta (finance) Expected change in price of a stock relative to the whole market. 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 ...

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

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    Stocks with a beta of less than 1 have a smoother ride as their moves are more muted than the market’s, but they’ll usually still go up when the market goes up and down when the market goes down.

  4. Security market line - Wikipedia

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    Security market line (SML) is the representation of the capital asset pricing model. It displays the expected rate of return of an individual security as a function of systematic, non-diversifiable risk. The risk of an individual risky security reflects the volatility of the return from the security rather than the return of the market portfolio.

  5. Modern portfolio theory - Wikipedia

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    Modern portfolio theory (MPT), or mean-variance analysis, is a mathematical framework for assembling a portfolio of assets such that the expected return is maximized for a given level of risk. It is a formalization and extension of diversification in investing, the idea that owning different kinds of financial assets is less risky than owning ...

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

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    In this case, a negative beta just a hair under 0 doesn't have any more significance than a positive 0.01 beta would. Ferrellgas will move with gas prices more than with the broad market. Agnico ...

  7. 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) .

  8. Single-index model - Wikipedia

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    The term () represents the movement of the market modified by the stock's beta, while represents the unsystematic risk of the security due to firm-specific factors. Macroeconomic events, such as changes in interest rates or the cost of labor, causes the systematic risk that affects the returns of all stocks, and the firm-specific events are the ...

  9. Risk aversion - Wikipedia

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    For example, most people prefer a certain gain of 3,000 to an 80% chance of a gain of 4,000. When posed the same problem, but for losses, most people prefer an 80% chance of a loss of 4,000 to a certain loss of 3,000. The reflection effect (as well as the certainty effect) is inconsistent with the expected utility hypothesis. It is assumed that ...