American Pacific Corporation (APFC)

8.42 +0.12  +1.45%  May 25, 11:00PM Go Pro
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American Pacific Corporation Beta: 1.219

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APFC Beta Range, Past 5 Years

Minimum 0.5276 Jul 2007
Maximum 1.583 Apr 2008
Average 1.233

About Beta 60 Month

YCharts calculates the 60 month market beta by regressing stock returns less the risk free rate of returns on the market returns less the risk free rate of return (Market returns come from the S&P 500 Total Returns Index (SPXTR), and the risk free rate is the 4 Week Average T-Bill (Monthly). There must be a minimum of 36 months of stock returns for a company to have its beta calculated.

Beta is a measure of the risk of a stock when it is included in a well-diversified portfolio.

In financial theory, the Capital Asset Pricing Model breaks down expected stock returns into two components. The first is the return that would be expected based on covariance with the movements of the market (for most stocks, when the market as a whole goes up, the price of the stock will also go up). The second part is the increase in the price of a stock that is not explained by the market. The first part - covariance with the market - is what Beta captures.

When Beta is positive, the stock price tends to move in the same direction as the market, and the magnitude of Beta tells by how much. If a stock's Beta is greater than 1, that means that when the market index goes up 1%, we expect the stock will go up by more than 1%. On the contrary, if the market goes down by 1%, we expect the stock to go down by more than 1%. Negative Betas, while rare, signify a negative correlation. When the market goes up, we would expect the stock price to go down.

For readers with a background in regression analysis, Beta is the slope of the linear regression shown in the formula below, where Returns are the return on an individual stock or portfolio, Rf is the risk free rate, RMarket is the return on a market portfolio, and e is an error term.
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APFC News

Sidoti Upgrades American Pacific (APFC) to Buy
May 10, 2:09PM Street Insider
$APFC forms bearish "Symmetrical Continuation Triangle" chart pattern. http://stks.co/3N6l
about 41 days ago by RecogniaEvents
$APFC forms bearish "Top Triangle" chart pattern. http://stks.co/2ep7
about 86 days ago by RecogniaEvents
$APFC http://stks.co/Xou specialty chemicals
about 232 days ago by traderdigs
$APFC http://stks.co/Cr7 scan hit
about 256 days ago by traderdigs
$APFC http://chart.ly/u5rnxir vol pattern is good , watch over 6.3
about 387 days ago by david_digs
Proxy Alert: American Pacific $APFC - Vote proxies before 03/09/2010 meeting.
about 836 days ago by ProxyAnalyst
$APFC conf call: rev up, earnings down; business better, but cutting guidance to flat rev, earnings loss; conserving capital; uninspiring
about 1105 days ago by he_ro

Recent Quotes

Symbol Price Chg Chg % Market Cap
APFC 8.42 +0.12 +1.45% 64.08M
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