If you have followed my articles Dual-Beta - The Smart Investor's Most Valuable Tool or The Dual-Beta Portfolio, Part 1 - Consumer Defensive Sector, you are fully aware how powerful it can be to be ...

Investors understand intuitively that some stocks are riskier than others. The capital asset pricing model attempts to quantify the common perception of risk using a term called beta. By understanding ...

The most common metric used to quantify a stock’s market risk is Beta—a measure of a security’s volatility compared to the overall market (usually the S&P 500). However, the Beta you typically see ...

Last week, we received some excellent feedback in response to Monday’s article on calculating a stock’s beta. So today, I’m going to take this little-known metric one step further by showing you how ...

In a nutshell, beta is a measure of how reactive a stock is to overall market movements – particularly those of the S&P 500 benchmark index. Obviously, stocks move individually, and for a variety of ...