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Emergent Health (Emergent Health) Beta : 2.57 (As of May. 14, 2024)


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What is Emergent Health Beta?

Beta is the sensitivity of the expected excess asset returns to the expected excess market returns. As of today (2024-05-14), Emergent Health's Beta is 2.57.


Emergent Health Beta Historical Data

The historical data trend for Emergent Health's Beta can be seen below:

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Competitive Comparison of Emergent Health's Beta

For the Drug Manufacturers - Specialty & Generic subindustry, Emergent Health'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.


Emergent Health's Beta Distribution in the Drug Manufacturers Industry

For the Drug Manufacturers industry and Healthcare sector, Emergent Health's Beta distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Emergent Health's Beta falls into.



Emergent Health 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.


Emergent Health  (OTCPK:EMGE) 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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Emergent Health (Emergent Health) Business Description

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Address
519 8th Avenue, 25th Floor, New York, NY, USA, 10018
Emergent Health Corp manufactures and sells vitamin products to retail customers across the United States of America.

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