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Morgan Advanced Materials (LSE:MGAM) Beta : 2.08 (As of May. 09, 2024)


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What is Morgan Advanced Materials Beta?

Beta is the sensitivity of the expected excess asset returns to the expected excess market returns. As of today (2024-05-09), Morgan Advanced Materials's Beta is 2.08.


Morgan Advanced Materials Beta Historical Data

The historical data trend for Morgan Advanced Materials's Beta can be seen below:

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Morgan Advanced Materials Beta Chart

Morgan Advanced Materials Annual Data
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Beta
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 1.10 1.62 - - 1.87

Morgan Advanced Materials Semi-Annual Data
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Beta Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only - - - - 1.87

Competitive Comparison of Morgan Advanced Materials's Beta

For the Specialty Industrial Machinery subindustry, Morgan Advanced Materials'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.


Morgan Advanced Materials's Beta Distribution in the Industrial Products Industry

For the Industrial Products industry and Industrials sector, Morgan Advanced Materials's Beta distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Morgan Advanced Materials's Beta falls into.



Morgan Advanced Materials 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.


Morgan Advanced Materials  (LSE:MGAM) 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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Morgan Advanced Materials (LSE:MGAM) Business Description

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Sheet Street, York House, Windsor, GBR, SL4 1DD
Morgan Advanced Materials PLC is a U.K.-based company that manufactures a wide array of specialized and high-specification materials. The company's product line includes high-temperature insulation products used to reduce energy consumption, electrical carbon, linear and rotary transfer systems used for transferring electrical energy in motor and generator applications, seals and bearings, ceramic cores, piezoelectric sensors and transducers, crucibles, and others. The company's customers come from sectors including healthcare, petrochemical, transportation, electronics, energy, security and defense, and other industrial applications. Morgan Advanced Materials has a global presence, with the United States being the largest markets for the company.