2007-10-28 13:12:21 · 4 answers · asked by Brown eyed girl 7 in Business & Finance ➔ Investing
You can get betas from Yahoo! FInance. Look a the link for Key Statistics.
Beta is the regression coefficient of excess returns of the asset regressed excess returns of the market. I don't know that anyone calls it anything other than Beta.
2007-10-28 13:17:35 · answer #1 · answered by Ranto 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Beta, by definition, is a measure of the volatility of the returns compared to the returns of the market. Standard deviation compares volatility in prices. Beta depends on the time frames used. There is no real standard. Yahoo uses a different time frame than Value LIne and so on. You can also get betas at the link below. The first poster is correct, another name for it is the regression coefficient.
2007-10-28 15:08:03 · answer #2 · answered by jeff410 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Beta is beta. I don't know what anyone else would call it. In laymen's terms, it's basically a measure of risk. Beta measures risk by comparing the volatility (amount of movement in the stock price) to the volatility of a benchmark index, usually the S&P 500. I'm not going much into the beta because that's not your question. You can find beta anywhere that provides financial data like Yahoo Finance, MSN Money, Reuters, morningstar, bloomberg, etc...
2007-10-28 14:10:31 · answer #3 · answered by trancevanbuuren 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
As you see here, no two people give you the same definition of beta. This is because they do not really know what it means and they are just repeating what they remember they read about it.
2007-10-28 15:13:53 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋