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Comprehensive Healthcare Systems (TSXV:CHS) Beta : 2.57 (As of May. 16, 2024)


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What is Comprehensive Healthcare Systems Beta?

Beta is the sensitivity of the expected excess asset returns to the expected excess market returns. As of today (2024-05-16), Comprehensive Healthcare Systems's Beta is 2.57.


Comprehensive Healthcare Systems Beta Historical Data

The historical data trend for Comprehensive Healthcare Systems's Beta can be seen below:

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Comprehensive Healthcare Systems Beta Chart

Comprehensive Healthcare Systems Annual Data
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Beta
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Comprehensive Healthcare Systems Quarterly Data
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Competitive Comparison of Comprehensive Healthcare Systems's Beta

For the Health Information Services subindustry, Comprehensive Healthcare Systems'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.


Comprehensive Healthcare Systems's Beta Distribution in the Healthcare Providers & Services Industry

For the Healthcare Providers & Services industry and Healthcare sector, Comprehensive Healthcare Systems's Beta distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Comprehensive Healthcare Systems's Beta falls into.



Comprehensive Healthcare Systems 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.


Comprehensive Healthcare Systems  (TSXV:CHS) 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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Comprehensive Healthcare Systems (TSXV:CHS) Business Description

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Address
2025 Lincoln Highway, Suite 340, State Route 27, Edison, NJ, USA, 08817
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Comprehensive Healthcare Systems Inc is the provider of healthcare administrative software, licensing and maintenance services.