Beta is the sensitivity of the expected excess asset returns to the expected excess market returns. As of today (2024-05-06), Evolent Health's Beta is 0.46.
Evolent Health Beta Historical Data
The historical data trend for Evolent Health'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.
For the Health Information Services subindustry, Evolent Health'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.
Evolent Health's Beta Distribution in the Healthcare Providers & Services Industry
For the Healthcare Providers & Services industry and Healthcare sector, Evolent Health's Beta distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Evolent Health's Beta falls into.
Evolent Health 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.
Evolent Health (NYSE:EVH) 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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Evolent Health (Evolent Health) Business Description
Evolent Health Inc is engaged in healthcare delivery and payment. The company supports health systems and physician organizations in their migration toward value-based care and population health management. The company's two reportable segments: EHS and Clinical Solutions. The Company's EHS segment provides an integrated administrative and clinical platform for health plan administration and value-based business infrastructure and clinical Solutions segment addresses a broad spectrum of clinical needs, with tailored solutions for specialty care management in oncology and cardiology and increasingly the musculoskeletal markets and holistic total cost of care improvement. It generates a majority of its revenue from Clinical Solutions segment.
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