Ballston SpA Bancorp (Ballston SpA Bancorp) Beta : -0.27 (As of Jun. 23, 2024)

Ballston SpA Bancorp Beta Chart

Ballston SpA Bancorp Quarterly Data
	Mar03	Jun03	Sep03	Dec03	Mar04	Jun04	Sep04	Dec04	Mar05	Jun05	Sep05	Dec05	Mar06	Jun06	Sep06	Dec06	Mar07	Jun07	Sep07
Beta	Get a 7-Day Free Trial														0.27	0.46	0.54	0.19	0.17

Competitive Comparison of Ballston SpA Bancorp's Beta

For the Banks - Regional subindustry, Ballston SpA Bancorp'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.

Ballston SpA Bancorp's Beta Distribution in the Banks Industry

For the Banks industry and Financial Services sector, Ballston SpA Bancorp's Beta distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Ballston SpA Bancorp's Beta falls into.

Ballston SpA Bancorp 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.

Ballston SpA Bancorp  (OTCPK:BSPA) 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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