American Software (American Software) Beta : 0.88 (As of Apr. 27, 2024)

American Software Beta Chart

American Software Annual Data
	Trend	Apr14	Apr15	Apr16	Apr17	Apr18	Apr19	Apr20	Apr21	Apr22	Apr23
Beta		Get a 7-Day Free Trial					0.68	0.56	0.48	0.87	1.05

American Software Quarterly Data
	Apr19	Jul19	Oct19	Jan20	Apr20	Jul20	Oct20	Jan21	Apr21	Jul21	Oct21	Jan22	Apr22	Jul22	Oct22	Jan23	Apr23	Jul23	Oct23	Jan24
Beta	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															0.93	1.05	0.88	1.02	0.90

Competitive Comparison of American Software's Beta

For the Software - Application subindustry, American Software'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.

American Software's Beta Distribution in the Software Industry

For the Software industry and Technology sector, American Software's Beta distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where American Software's Beta falls into.

American Software 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.

American Software  (NAS:AMSWA) 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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