Every investor strives to balance two conflicting goals: Maximizing their investment returns and minimizing their risk. Beta offers a way to measure the amount of risk you’re taking on for a given ...

Investors, whether beginner or seasoned professionals, all have a threshold for risk. Some prefer to play it safe and favor a low-risk investment plan while others are more advantageous with a “high ...

Last week, we received some excellent feedback in response to Monday’s article on calculating a stock’s beta. So today, I’m going to take this little-known metric one step further by showing you how ...

Beta is a measurement of an asset’s risk compared to a benchmark, like the stock market. The market or benchmark used to calculate an asset’s beta always has a beta of 1. Stocks that have a return ...

Please Note: Blog posts are not selected, edited or screened by Seeking Alpha editors. In a previous post, we presented a method for calculating a stock beta and implemented it in Python. In this ...

Alpha and beta are two terms that get thrown around a lot in investing. They sound complicated, but they’re actually much simpler than they seem. Here’s what you need to know about alpha and beta in ...