Anglo American Plc Stock Beta

NGLB Stock  EUR 29.85  1.33  4.66%   
Anglo American plc fundamentals help investors to digest information that contributes to Anglo American's financial success or failures. It also enables traders to predict the movement of Anglo Stock. The fundamental analysis module provides a way to measure Anglo American'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 Anglo American stock.
  
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Anglo American plc Company Beta Analysis

Anglo American'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 Anglo American Beta

    
  1.29  
Most of Anglo American'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, Anglo American 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.
Competition

In accordance with the recently published financial statements, Anglo American plc has a Beta of 1.2895. This is 48.22% higher than that of the Basic Materials sector and 10.21% higher than that of the Industrial Metals & Minerals industry. The beta for all Germany stocks is notably lower than that of the firm.

Anglo Beta Peer Comparison

Stock peer comparison is one of the most widely used and accepted methods of equity analyses. It analyses Anglo American's 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 Anglo American could also be used in its relative valuation, which is a method of valuing Anglo American by comparing valuation metrics of similar companies.
Anglo American is currently under evaluation in beta category among its peers.
As the market goes up, the company is expected to outperform it. However, if the market returns are negative, Anglo American will likely underperform.

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About Anglo American Fundamental Analysis

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