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Milestone Medical (WAR:MMD) Beta : 0.15 (As of Jun. 07, 2024)


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What is Milestone Medical Beta?

Beta is the sensitivity of the expected excess asset returns to the expected excess market returns. As of today (2024-06-07), Milestone Medical's Beta is 0.15.


Milestone Medical Beta Historical Data

The historical data trend for Milestone Medical's Beta can be seen below:

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Milestone Medical Beta Chart

Milestone Medical Annual Data
Trend Dec13 Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22
Beta
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only -1.95 -0.89 0.88 0.41 -0.13

Milestone Medical Quarterly Data
Dec18 Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23
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 0.16 -0.13 -0.75 -0.76 -0.49

Competitive Comparison of Milestone Medical's Beta

For the Medical Instruments & Supplies subindustry, Milestone Medical'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.


Milestone Medical's Beta Distribution in the Medical Devices & Instruments Industry

For the Medical Devices & Instruments industry and Healthcare sector, Milestone Medical's Beta distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Milestone Medical's Beta falls into.



Milestone Medical 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.


Milestone Medical  (WAR:MMD) 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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Milestone Medical (WAR:MMD) Business Description

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Address
425 Eagle Rock Avenue, Suite 403, Roseland, NJ, USA, NJ 07068
Milestone Medical Inc is a United States-based company engaged in the development and commercialization of epidural and intra-articular and epidural drug delivery systems in the United State. Its products include a Dynamic Pressure Sensing instrument, that measures the density of body tissue and helps clinicians know the location of a hypodermic needle during an injection; and an intra-articular injection instrument that is used to inject into various joints in the treatment of arthritis and other joint conditions.

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