Beta is the sensitivity of the expected excess asset returns to the expected excess market returns. As of today (2024-04-29), Regado Biosciences's Beta is Not available.
Regado Biosciences Beta Historical Data
The historical data trend for Regado Biosciences'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.
Competitive Comparison of Regado Biosciences's Beta
For the Biotechnology subindustry, Regado Biosciences'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.
Regado Biosciences's Beta Distribution in the Biotechnology Industry
For the Biotechnology industry and Healthcare sector, Regado Biosciences's Beta distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Regado Biosciences's Beta falls into.
Regado Biosciences 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.
Regado Biosciences (NAS:RGDO) 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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Regado Biosciences (Regado Biosciences) Business Description
Regado Biosciences Inc was incorporated in Delaware under the name Quartet Biosciences, Inc. in December 2001 and changed its name to Regado Biosciences, Inc. in March 2003. It is a biopharmaceutical company. The Company is engaged in the discovery and development of antithrombotic drug systems for acute and sub-acute cardiovascular indications. The Company's product candidates consists of a two-component system: an aptamer and its specific active control agent. The aptamer is administered first and achieves its therapeutic effect within minutes. When the therapeutic effect of the aptamer is no longer needed, the control agent is administered to rapidly and precisely reduce or eliminate it. The level of reduction is determined by the amount of control agent given compared to the aptamer dose. The Company's product candidate, REG1, consists of pegnivacogin, a highly potent and selective anticoagulant, and anivamersen, its specific active control agent. The Company is developing REG1 as an anticoagulant for use in patients with cardiovascular conditions undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention, or PCI, a hospital-based procedure used to mechanically open or widen obstructed coronary arteries.
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