beta
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So a beta of 1 would mean precisely the same price volatility of the index.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026
“It came to our attention that a third party collections agency made a reporting error for a small subset of customers with our original beta program,” the spokesman said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
While the new version of Siri AI is still in public beta, essentially a testing phase before broader release, Cook said it is part of "an enormous opportunity for Apple going forward in AI."
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
"People think of Type 2 diabetes as a disease of beta cells, but it's actually a disease of fat cells, too."
From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026
“But you seem so unhappy, beta? Ma finished softly. “So unhappy.”
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
While most of those chip makers have “betas” greater than 1—meaning their daily moves in the last few years have been larger than the S&P 500’s moves—all of the stocks above have betas below 1.
From Barron's ● Jun. 16, 2026
Consider the performance of a hypothetical portfolio that buys the 10% of stocks with the highest betas and sells short the decile of stocks with the lowest betas.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2025
“We’re betas pretending to be alphas,” Denton said.
From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2022
As with its previous betas, the dates are separated by console and whether you preordered the game or not.
From The Verge ● Aug. 7, 2022
Greek letters move across the undersides of his eyelids: isosceles triangles, betas, sine curves.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
