Beta (finance)
IN FINANCE, NUMBER DESCRIBING THE CORRELATED VOLATILITY OF AN ASSET IN RELATION TO THE VOLATILITY OF THE BENCHMARK
Beta (investment); Beta risk; Beta coefficient; Beta decay (finance); Beta (valuation ratio); Volatility beta; Beta stock; High beta stock; Low beta stock; Stock beta
In finance, the beta (β or market beta or beta coefficient) is a measure of how an individual asset moves (on average) when the overall stock market increases or decreases. Thus, beta is a useful measure of the contribution of an individual asset to the risk of the market portfolio when it is added in small quantity.