Question

A stock has a correlation with the market of 0.49. The standard deviation of the market is 25%, and the standard deviation of the stock is 33%. What is the stock's beta?
A.) 1.55
B.) 0.65
C.) 0.35
D.) 0.37

Answer 1

Answer:

Stock's beta  = 0.65 (Approx)

Explanation:

Given:

Correlation = 0.49

Standard deviation of stock (SDs) = 33% = 0.33

Standard deviation of market  (SDm) = 25% = 0.25

Find:

Stock's beta

Computation:

Stock's beta = Correlation(SDs) / SDm

Stock's beta = 0.49 (0.33) / 0.25

Stock's beta  = 0.65 (Approx)