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

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   Using beta to evaluate a stock’s risk. Beta allows for a good comparison between an individual stock and a market-tracking index fund, but it doesn’t offer a complete portrait of a stock’s ...

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

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   What Is a Good Beta for a Stock? There is no such thing as an empirically “good” or “bad” beta for a stock. The type of beta you want for your portfolio depends on the type of investor you ...

4. Portfolio Beta vs. Stock Beta: What's the Difference?

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   Continue reading → The post How to Calculate the Beta of a Portfolio appeared first on SmartAsset Blog. Investors, whether beginner or seasoned professionals, all have a threshold for risk. Some ...

5. 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 added in small ...

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. Abnormal return - Wikipedia

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   For example, if a stock increased by 5% because of some news that affected the stock price, but the average market only increased by 3% and the stock has a beta of 1, then the abnormal return was 2% (5% - 3% = 2%). If the market average performs better (after adjusting for beta) than the individual stock, then the abnormal return will be negative.

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

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   Fortunately, you won’t have to calculate the beta for each stock you’re looking at. The beta for any stock can be found on most popular financial websites or through your online broker ...

9. Jensen's alpha - Wikipedia

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   It is a version of the standard alpha based on a theoretical performance instead of a market index. The security could be any asset, such as stocks, bonds, or derivatives. The theoretical return is predicted by a market model, most commonly the capital asset pricing model (CAPM). The market model uses statistical methods to predict the ...