Kowa Co (TSE:7807) Beta : 0.19 (As of Mar. 27, 2025)

Kowa Co Beta Chart

Kowa Co Annual Data
	Trend	Feb16	Feb17	Feb18	Feb19	Feb20	Feb21	Feb22	Feb23	Feb24
Beta		Get a 7-Day Free Trial				-	1.69	1.29	0.89	0.19

Kowa Co Quarterly Data
	Nov19	Feb20	May20	Aug20	Nov20	Feb21	May21	Aug21	Nov21	Feb22	May22	Aug22	Nov22	Feb23	May23	Aug23	Nov23	Feb24	May24	Aug24
Beta	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															0.45	0.34	0.19	0.25	0.56

Competitive Comparison of Kowa Co's Beta

For the Furnishings, Fixtures & Appliances subindustry, Kowa 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.

Kowa Co's Beta Distribution in the Furnishings, Fixtures & Appliances Industry

For the Furnishings, Fixtures & Appliances industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, Kowa Co's Beta distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Kowa Co's Beta falls into.

Kowa 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.

Kowa Co  (TSE:7807) 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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