SCOO (School Specialty) Beta: -1.5782 (As of Sep. 11, 2026)

School Specialty  (OTCPK:SCOO) 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)

School Specialty Beta Related Terms

The historical data trend for School Specialty'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.

School Specialty Beta Chart

School Specialty Annual Data
	Trend	Apr10	Apr11	Apr12	Apr13	Apr14	Apr15	Dec16	Dec17	Dec18	Dec19
Beta		Get a 7-Day Free Trial					0.00	0.73	0.70	1.50	0.72

School Specialty Quarterly Data
	Jan15	Apr15	Jul15	Oct15	Mar16	Jun16	Sep16	Dec16	Mar17	Jun17	Sep17	Dec17	Mar18	Jun18	Sep18	Dec18	Mar19	Jun19	Sep19	Dec19
Beta	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															1.50	0.84	0.81	1.13	0.72

SCOO vs PIRRQ, JADG, MSSV: Beta Comparison

For the Specialty Retail subindustry, School Specialty'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.

School Specialty Beta vs Retail - Cyclical Industry

For the Retail - Cyclical industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, School Specialty's Beta distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where School Specialty's Beta falls into.

School Specialty 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.

School Specialty Business Description