GCFB (Granite City Food & Brewery) Beta: 15.4188 (As of Jun. 25, 2026)

Granite City Food & Brewery  (OTCPK:GCFB) 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)

Granite City Food & Brewery Beta Related Terms

The historical data trend for Granite City Food & Brewery's Beta can be seen below:

* 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.

Granite City Food & Brewery Beta Chart

Granite City Food & Brewery Annual Data
	Trend	Dec07	Dec08	Dec09	Dec10	Dec11	Dec12	Dec13	Dec14	Dec15	Dec16
Beta		Get a 7-Day Free Trial					0.54	0.28	-0.67	0.17	0.78

Granite City Food & Brewery Quarterly Data
	Mar12	Jun12	Sep12	Dec12	Mar13	Jun13	Sep13	Dec13	Sep14	Dec14	Mar15	Jun15	Sep15	Dec15	Mar16	Jun16	Sep16	Dec16	Mar17	Jun17
Beta	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															0.24	0.32	0.78	0.77	0.83

GCFB vs BDVB, DBUB, GIGL: Beta Comparison

For the Restaurants subindustry, Granite City Food & Brewery'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.

Granite City Food & Brewery Beta vs Restaurants Industry

For the Restaurants industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, Granite City Food & Brewery's Beta distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Granite City Food & Brewery's Beta falls into.

Granite City Food & Brewery 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.

Granite City Food & Brewery Business Description