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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. 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 ...

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

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    For example, if the market is making a big move 20% higher, a stock with a beta of 1.5 will tend to trade up 30%. In this way, an investor can maximize gains in a bullish market by picking up ...

  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. Single-index model - Wikipedia

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    These equations show that the stock return is influenced by the market (beta), has a firm specific expected value (alpha) and firm-specific unexpected component (residual). Each stock's performance is in relation to the performance of a market index (such as the All Ordinaries). Security analysts often use the SIM for such functions as ...

  7. Greeks (finance) - Wikipedia

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    The beta (β) of a stock or portfolio is a number describing the volatility of an asset in relation to the volatility of the benchmark that said asset is being compared to. This benchmark is generally the overall financial market and is often estimated via the use of representative indices, such as the S&P 500.

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

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    But if high-beta stocks are risky and low-beta. 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 ...

  9. 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 ...