Matco Foods Financials

Matco Foods' systematic risk plays a vital role in portfolio allocation when considering its stock to be added to a well-diversified portfolio. Matco Foods volatility which cannot be eliminated through diversification, requires returns over the risk-free rate. Over the long run, a well-diversified portfolio provides returns that match its exposure to systematic risk. In this case, investors face a trade-off between expected returns and systematic risk and, therefore, can only reduce a portfolio's exposure to systematic risk by sacrificing expected returns on the portfolio.

The output start index for this execution was three with a total number of output elements of fifty-eight. The Beta measures systematic risk based on how returns on Matco Foods correlated with the market. If Beta is less than 0 Matco Foods generally moves in the opposite direction as compared to the market. If Matco Foods Beta is about zero movement of price series is uncorrelated with the movement of the benchmark. if Beta is between zero and one Matco Foods is generally moves in the same direction as, but less than the movement of the market. For Beta = 1 movement of Matco Foods is generally in the same direction as the market. If Beta > 1 Matco Foods moves generally in the same direction as, but more than the movement of the benchmark.