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Firms belonging to a riskier industry will always have a beta higher than the market index.
Only the alpha can be calculated with a linear regression.
Market betas are included between −1 and 1.
A beta is a measure of how volatile an asset is with respect to the market portfolio.
A beta measures the volatality of a portfolio or stock ascompared to the market. A beta of 1 means that the asset is performing similar to the market portfolio. A beta of 1.5 means that the stock's return is 1.5 times that of the market. This can have a negative as well as positive effect depending on the market performance.
Hence, the following statement is correct-
A beta is a measure of how volatile an asset is with repsect to the market portfolio.
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