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Spire Healthcare Group (LSE:SPI) Beta : 1.00 (As of May. 26, 2024)


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What is Spire Healthcare Group Beta?

Beta is the sensitivity of the expected excess asset returns to the expected excess market returns. As of today (2024-05-26), Spire Healthcare Group's Beta is 1.00.


Spire Healthcare Group Beta Historical Data

The historical data trend for Spire Healthcare Group's Beta can be seen below:

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Spire Healthcare Group Beta Chart

Spire Healthcare Group Annual Data
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Beta
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 2.24 1.71 - - 1.26

Spire Healthcare Group Semi-Annual Data
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Beta Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only - - - - 1.26

Competitive Comparison of Spire Healthcare Group's Beta

For the Medical Care Facilities subindustry, Spire Healthcare Group's Beta, along with its competitors' market caps and Beta data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.


Spire Healthcare Group's Beta Distribution in the Healthcare Providers & Services Industry

For the Healthcare Providers & Services industry and Healthcare sector, Spire Healthcare Group's Beta distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Spire Healthcare Group's Beta falls into.



Spire Healthcare Group Beta Calculation

Beta is the sensitivity of the expected excess asset returns to the expected excess market returns. A stock's beta can be calculated by dividing the product of the covariance of the individual stock's returns and the market's returns by the variance of the market's returns over a specified period. Basically, GuruFocus uses the returns calculated over three-year period.


Spire Healthcare Group  (LSE:SPI) Beta Explanation

Beta is a measure of the volatility, or systematic risk, of a security or a portfolio in comparison to the market as a whole. We usually compare beta to 1. A beta of 1 indicates that the security's price will move with the market. A beta of less than 1 means that the security will be less volatile than the market. A beta of greater than 1 indicates that the security's price will be more volatile than the market.

Beta is primarily used in the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) to calculate the Cost of Equity, which can be used in the calculation of WACC %. The formula of Cost of Equity is:
Cost of Equity = Risk-Free Rate of Return + Beta of Asset * (Expected Return of the Market - Risk-Free Rate of Return)


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Spire Healthcare Group (LSE:SPI) Business Description

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Address
3 Dorset Rise, London, GBR, EC4Y 8EN
Spire Healthcare Group PLC is an independent hospital group in the United Kingdom, with 40 private hospitals and eight clinics. It is a private provider, by volume, of knee and hip operations in the United Kingdom. The Group is a well-located and scalable hospital have delivered successful and award-winning clinical outcomes, positioning the Group well with patients, Consultants, the NHS, GPs and Private Medical Insurance providers. It treats patients through a variety of routes including PMI, Self-pay and the NHS, providing the Group with diversified access to the expected growth opportunities in the UK healthcare market, which faces significant supply challenges as a result of NHS budget constraints and increasing demand from a growing population with longer life expectancy.