Beta is the sensitivity of the expected excess asset returns to the expected excess market returns. As of today (2024-04-25), ARIAD Pharmaceuticals's Beta is Not available.
* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD. * For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.
Competitive Comparison of ARIAD Pharmaceuticals's Beta
For the Biotechnology subindustry, ARIAD Pharmaceuticals'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.
ARIAD Pharmaceuticals's Beta Distribution in the Biotechnology Industry
For the Biotechnology industry and Healthcare sector, ARIAD Pharmaceuticals's Beta distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where ARIAD Pharmaceuticals's Beta falls into.
ARIAD Pharmaceuticals 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.
ARIAD Pharmaceuticals (NAS:ARIA) 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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ARIAD Pharmaceuticals (ARIAD Pharmaceuticals) Business Description
ARIAD Pharmaceuticals Inc was organized as a Delaware corporation in April 1991. It is an oncology company. The Company is focused on discovery and development of breakthrough medicines to treat cancers by regulating cell signaling with small molecules. The Company's first approved cancer medicine, Iclusig (ponatinib), and its product candidates, AP26113 and ridaforolimus, were discovered internally by its scientists based on the expertise in computational and structure-based drug design. AP26113 is an investigational inhibitor of anaplastic lymphoma kinase, or ALK. In non-clinical studies, AP26113 also demonstrated that it can inhibit epidermal growth factor receptor, or EGFR, and c-ros oncogene-1, or ROS1. . Iclusig and its drug candidates and preclinical compounds are small molecules that can be readily synthesized by processes that it has developed. The Company do not own or operate manufacturing facilities for the production of clinical or commercial quantities of Iclusig or its product candidates. The company's competitors includes pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies such as Amgen Inc., AstraZeneca PLC, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Celgene Corporation, Eli Lilly and Company, the Roche Group, GlaxoSmithKline plc, Johnson & Johnson, Merck, Merck KGaA, Novartis AG, Pfizer, Inc., Sanofi-Aventis, Takeda Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., and Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.Inc.
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