Astrazeneca Plc Stock Beta

AZN Stock   10,468  100.00  0.95%   
AstraZeneca PLC fundamentals help investors to digest information that contributes to AstraZeneca PLC's financial success or failures. It also enables traders to predict the movement of AstraZeneca Stock. The fundamental analysis module provides a way to measure AstraZeneca PLC's intrinsic value by examining its available economic and financial indicators, including the cash flow records, the balance sheet account changes, the income statement patterns, and various microeconomic indicators and financial ratios related to AstraZeneca PLC stock.
  
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AstraZeneca PLC Company Beta Analysis

AstraZeneca PLC's Beta is one of the most important measures of equity market volatility. Beta can be thought of as asset elasticity or sensitivity to market. In other words, it is a number that shows the relationship of an equity instrument to the financial market in which this instrument is traded. For example, if Beta of equity is 2, it is expected to significantly outperform market when the market is going up and significantly underperform when the market is going down. Similarly, Beta of 1 indicates that an asset and market will generate similar returns over time.

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Current AstraZeneca PLC Beta

    
  0.18  
Most of AstraZeneca PLC's fundamental indicators, such as Beta, are part of a valuation analysis module that helps investors searching for stocks that are currently trading at higher or lower prices than their real value. If the real value is higher than the market price, AstraZeneca PLC is considered to be undervalued, and we provide a buy recommendation. Otherwise, we render a sell signal.
In a nutshell, Beta is a measure of individual stock risk relative to the overall volatility of the stock market. and is calculated based on very sound finance theory - Capital Assets Pricing Model (CAPM).However, since Beta is calculated based on historical price movements it may not predict how a firm's stock is going to perform in the future.
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In accordance with the recently published financial statements, AstraZeneca PLC has a Beta of 0.18. This is much higher than that of the Pharmaceuticals sector and significantly higher than that of the Health Care industry. The beta for all United Kingdom stocks is notably lower than that of the firm.

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AstraZeneca PLC ESG Sustainability

Some studies have found that companies with high sustainability scores are getting higher valuations than competitors with lower social-engagement activities. While most ESG disclosures are voluntary and do not directly affect the long term financial condition, AstraZeneca PLC's sustainability indicators can be used to identify proper investment strategies using environmental, social, and governance scores that are crucial to AstraZeneca PLC's managers, analysts, and investors.
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As returns on the market increase, AstraZeneca PLC's returns are expected to increase less than the market. However, during the bear market, the loss of holding AstraZeneca PLC is expected to be smaller as well.

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About AstraZeneca PLC Fundamental Analysis

The Macroaxis Fundamental Analysis modules help investors analyze AstraZeneca PLC's financials across various querterly and yearly statements, indicators and fundamental ratios. We help investors to determine the real value of AstraZeneca PLC using virtually all public information available. We use both quantitative as well as qualitative analysis to arrive at the intrinsic value of AstraZeneca PLC based on its fundamental data. In general, a quantitative approach, as applied to this company, focuses on analyzing financial statements comparatively, whereas a qaualitative method uses data that is important to a company's growth but cannot be measured and presented in a numerical way.
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AstraZeneca PLC financial ratios help investors to determine whether AstraZeneca Stock is cheap or expensive when compared to a particular measure, such as profits or enterprise value. In other words, they help investors to determine the cost of investment in AstraZeneca with respect to the benefits of owning AstraZeneca PLC security.