Gold Fields Limited Stock Beta

EDG Stock  EUR 13.60  0.10  0.74%   
Gold Fields Limited fundamentals help investors to digest information that contributes to Gold Fields' financial success or failures. It also enables traders to predict the movement of Gold Stock. The fundamental analysis module provides a way to measure Gold Fields' 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 Gold Fields stock.
  
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Gold Fields Limited Company Beta Analysis

Gold Fields' 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 Gold Fields Beta

    
  0.6  
Most of Gold Fields' 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, Gold Fields Limited 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, Gold Fields Limited has a Beta of 0.6039. This is 30.59% lower than that of the Basic Materials sector and 123.67% higher than that of the Gold industry. The beta for all Germany stocks is notably lower than that of the firm.

Gold Beta Peer Comparison

Stock peer comparison is one of the most widely used and accepted methods of equity analyses. It analyses Gold Fields' direct or indirect competition against its Beta to detect undervalued stocks with similar characteristics or determine the stocks which would be a good addition to a portfolio. Peer analysis of Gold Fields could also be used in its relative valuation, which is a method of valuing Gold Fields by comparing valuation metrics of similar companies.
Gold Fields is currently under evaluation in beta category among its peers.
As returns on the market increase, Gold Fields' returns are expected to increase less than the market. However, during the bear market, the loss of holding Gold Fields is expected to be smaller as well.

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About Gold Fields Fundamental Analysis

The Macroaxis Fundamental Analysis modules help investors analyze Gold Fields Limited's financials across various querterly and yearly statements, indicators and fundamental ratios. We help investors to determine the real value of Gold Fields using virtually all public information available. We use both quantitative as well as qualitative analysis to arrive at the intrinsic value of Gold Fields Limited 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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Gold Fields financial ratios help investors to determine whether Gold 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 Gold with respect to the benefits of owning Gold Fields security.