Beta is the sensitivity of the expected excess asset returns to the expected excess market returns. As of today (2024-04-27), SCYNEXIS's Beta is 1.69.
SCYNEXIS Beta Historical Data
The historical data trend for SCYNEXIS'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.
For the Drug Manufacturers - Specialty & Generic subindustry, SCYNEXIS'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.
SCYNEXIS's Beta Distribution in the Drug Manufacturers Industry
For the Drug Manufacturers industry and Healthcare sector, SCYNEXIS's Beta distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where SCYNEXIS's Beta falls into.
SCYNEXIS 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.
SCYNEXIS (NAS:SCYX) 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)
SCYNEXIS Beta Related Terms
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SCYNEXIS Inc is a drug development company that focuses on the development and commercialization of novel anti-infectives to address significant unmet therapeutic needs. It is engaged in developing a lead product candidate, ibrexafungerp which is a novel oral and intravenous (IV) drug for the treatment of several fungal infections, including serious and life-threatening invasive fungal infections. The ibrexafungerp is a novel and structurally distinct triterpenoid glucan synthase inhibitor that is effective in vitro and in vivo against a broad range of Candida and Aspergillus species, including drug-resistant strains.
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