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A measure of a stock's risk of volatility compared to the overall market. The market's beta coefficient is 1.

Any stock with a beta higher than 1. In strict percentage terms, a stock with a beta of 0.

Low-beta stocks are also called defensive stocks because investors like to hold them when the market is on a downtrend or is particularly volatile. High-beta stocks tend to be favoured when the market is rising steadily and investors are happy to take greater risks in order to maximise returns.

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The beta data point appears on all of our equity tearsheets pages. We use Beta 5Y from the Multex Ratios and Statistics table, which is provided to us by Reuters.

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