George Kent Malaysia Bhd (XKLS:3204) Beta : 0.55 (As of Apr. 05, 2025)

George Kent Malaysia Bhd Beta Chart

George Kent Malaysia Bhd Annual Data
	Trend	Jan14	Jan15	Jan16	Jan17	Jan18	Jan19	Jan20	Mar22	Mar23	Mar24
Beta		Get a 7-Day Free Trial					3.45	3.26	1.50	0.76	0.53

George Kent Malaysia Bhd Quarterly Data
	Oct19	Jan20	Apr20	Jul20	Oct20	Jun21	Sep21	Dec21	Mar22	Jun22	Sep22	Dec22	Mar23	Jun23	Sep23	Dec23	Mar24	Jun24	Sep24	Dec24
Beta	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															0.47	0.53	0.44	0.45	0.62

Competitive Comparison of George Kent Malaysia Bhd's Beta

For the Engineering & Construction subindustry, George Kent Malaysia Bhd'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.

George Kent Malaysia Bhd's Beta Distribution in the Construction Industry

For the Construction industry and Industrials sector, George Kent Malaysia Bhd's Beta distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where George Kent Malaysia Bhd's Beta falls into.

George Kent Malaysia Bhd 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.

George Kent Malaysia Bhd  (XKLS:3204) 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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