Lai Sun Development Co (HKSE:00488) Beta : -0.07 (As of May. 11, 2024)

Lai Sun Development Co Beta Chart

Lai Sun Development Co Annual Data
	Trend	Jul14	Jul15	Jul16	Jul17	Jul18	Jul19	Jul20	Jul21	Jul22	Jul23
Beta		Get a 7-Day Free Trial					0.56	0.59	0.54	0.61	-0.20

Lai Sun Development Co Semi-Annual Data
	Jul14	Jan15	Jul15	Jan16	Jul16	Jan17	Jul17	Jan18	Jul18	Jan19	Jul19	Jan20	Jul20	Jan21	Jul21	Jan22	Jul22	Jan23	Jul23	Jan24
Beta	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															0.46	0.61	-0.17	-0.20	-0.11

Competitive Comparison of Lai Sun Development Co's Beta

For the Real Estate - Diversified subindustry, Lai Sun Development Co'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.

Lai Sun Development Co's Beta Distribution in the Real Estate Industry

For the Real Estate industry and Real Estate sector, Lai Sun Development Co's Beta distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Lai Sun Development Co's Beta falls into.

Lai Sun Development Co 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.

Lai Sun Development Co  (HKSE:00488) 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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