Swisher Hygiene (Swisher Hygiene) Beta : N/A (As of May. 05, 2024)

Swisher Hygiene Beta Chart

Swisher Hygiene Annual Data
	Trend	Aug06	Aug07	Aug08	Aug09	Aug10	Dec11	Dec12	Dec13	Dec14	Dec15
Beta		Get a 7-Day Free Trial					0.17	0.76	0.69	-0.16	-3.65

Swisher Hygiene Quarterly Data
	Jun11	Sep11	Dec11	Mar12	Jun12	Sep12	Dec12	Mar13	Jun13	Sep13	Dec13	Mar14	Jun14	Sep14	Dec14	Mar15	Jun15	Sep15	Dec15	Mar16
Beta	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															-0.44	-0.74	-4.21	-3.65	-2.93

Competitive Comparison of Swisher Hygiene's Beta

For the Household & Personal Products subindustry, Swisher Hygiene'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.

Swisher Hygiene's Beta Distribution in the Consumer Packaged Goods Industry

For the Consumer Packaged Goods industry and Consumer Defensive sector, Swisher Hygiene's Beta distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Swisher Hygiene's Beta falls into.

Swisher Hygiene 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.

Swisher Hygiene  (OTCPK:SWSH) 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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