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Merchants Financial Group (Merchants Financial Group) Beta : -0.05 (As of May. 06, 2024)


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What is Merchants Financial Group Beta?

Beta is the sensitivity of the expected excess asset returns to the expected excess market returns. As of today (2024-05-06), Merchants Financial Group's Beta is -0.05.


Merchants Financial Group Beta Historical Data

The historical data trend for Merchants Financial Group's Beta can be seen below:

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Competitive Comparison of Merchants Financial Group's Beta

For the Banks - Regional subindustry, Merchants Financial Group'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.


Merchants Financial Group's Beta Distribution in the Banks Industry

For the Banks industry and Financial Services sector, Merchants Financial Group's Beta distribution charts can be found below:

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Merchants Financial Group 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.


Merchants Financial Group  (OTCPK:MFGI) 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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Merchants Financial Group (Merchants Financial Group) Business Description

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102 East Third Street, Winona, MN, USA, 55987
Merchants Financial Group Inc is a bank holding company with one wholly-owned bank subsidiary, Merchants Bank, National Association. It provides retail, commercial loan and deposit services principally to customers within a 50-mile radius of its locations. The Bank has a leasing division, Merchants Bank Equipment Finance, which operates in the Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, metropolitan area.

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