Beta is the sensitivity of the expected excess asset returns to the expected excess market returns. As of today (2024-05-14), BioNexus Gene Lab's Beta is 2.48.
BioNexus Gene Lab Beta Historical Data
The historical data trend for BioNexus Gene Lab's Beta can be seen below:
* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD. * For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.
Competitive Comparison of BioNexus Gene Lab's Beta
For the Specialty Chemicals subindustry, BioNexus Gene Lab'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.
BioNexus Gene Lab's Beta Distribution in the Chemicals Industry
For the Chemicals industry and Basic Materials sector, BioNexus Gene Lab's Beta distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where BioNexus Gene Lab's Beta falls into.
BioNexus Gene Lab 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.
BioNexus Gene Lab (NAS:BGLC) 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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BioNexus Gene Lab (BioNexus Gene Lab) Business Description
BioNexus Gene Lab Corp is an emerging molecular diagnostics company focused on the application of functional genomics to enable early diagnosis and personalized health management. It focuses on developing and marketing safe, effective, and non-invasive blood tests for the early detection of diseases. The company's non-invasive blood tests analyze changes in ribonucleic acid (or RNA) to detect the potentiality of 11 different diseases. These diseases include eight cancers (nasopharyngeal, lung, liver, stomach, breast, cervical, prostate, and colon), two bowel diseases (colitis and Crohn), and osteoarthritis.
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