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Yellow Cake (LSE:YCA) Beta : 0.58 (As of May. 17, 2024)


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What is Yellow Cake Beta?

Beta is the sensitivity of the expected excess asset returns to the expected excess market returns. As of today (2024-05-17), Yellow Cake's Beta is 0.58.


Yellow Cake Beta Historical Data

The historical data trend for Yellow Cake's Beta can be seen below:

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Yellow Cake Beta Chart

Yellow Cake Annual Data
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Yellow Cake Semi-Annual Data
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Competitive Comparison of Yellow Cake's Beta

For the Uranium subindustry, Yellow Cake'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.


Yellow Cake's Beta Distribution in the Other Energy Sources Industry

For the Other Energy Sources industry and Energy sector, Yellow Cake's Beta distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Yellow Cake's Beta falls into.



Yellow Cake 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.


Yellow Cake  (LSE:YCA) 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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Yellow Cake (LSE:YCA) Business Description

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Yellow Cake PLC is a specialist company operating in the uranium sector. The principal activity of the company is to invest in uranium projects. It invests in quoted or unquoted companies producing, developing, or exploring for uranium in Canada, the United States, Australia, and South Africa. The company's only segment being the holding of uranium oxide concentrate (U3O8) for long-term capital appreciation.

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