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Pacific Financial (Pacific Financial) Beta : 0.29 (As of May. 20, 2024)


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What is Pacific Financial Beta?

Beta is the sensitivity of the expected excess asset returns to the expected excess market returns. As of today (2024-05-20), Pacific Financial's Beta is 0.29.


Pacific Financial Beta Historical Data

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

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

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Pacific Financial Beta Chart

Pacific Financial Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Beta
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 0.37 1.01 1.09 0.87 0.33

Pacific Financial Quarterly Data
Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24
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 0.37 0.33 0.44 0.33 0.26

Competitive Comparison of Pacific Financial's Beta

For the Banks - Regional subindustry, Pacific Financial'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.


Pacific Financial's Beta Distribution in the Banks Industry

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

* The bar in red indicates where Pacific Financial's Beta falls into.



Pacific Financial 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.


Pacific Financial  (OTCPK:PFLC) 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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Pacific Financial (Pacific Financial) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
N/A
Address
1216 Skyview Drive, Aberdeen, WA, USA, 98520
Pacific Financial Corp is active in the financial services domain as a bank holding company of the Bank of the Pacific, based in the United States. Its business also includes loan production and real estate mortgage provision. Its commercial banking division caters through services such as business checking, business savings and certificates of deposits, business loans, treasury management and commercial real estate loans, while its personal banking services comprise of checking solutions, savings solutions, consumer loans and lines of credit.
Executives
Kristi Gundersen director PO BOX 1826, ABERDEEN WA 98520
Daniel J. Tupper director PO BOX 1826, ABERDEEN WA 98520
Loretta B Reece director PO BOX 1826, ABERDEEN WA 98520
Douglas N Biddle officer: CFO 1101 S. BOONE STREET, ABERDEEN WA 98520-5244
Randy Rust director 300 E MARKET STREET, ABERDEEN WA 98520-5244
Dwayne Carter director 1101 S BOONE STREET, ABERDEEN WA 98520
Denise Portmann officer: VP & CASHIER
Douglas M Schermer director
Dennis A Long director, officer: President
Randy W Rognlin director
Edward Ketel director
Philippe S Swaab officer: Vice President 1101 S BOONE STREET, ABERDEEN WA 98520
Duane E Hagstrom director
Dijk John Van officer: Secretary
Susan C Freese director