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Lloyds Banking Plc Beta

What is the Beta of Lloyds Banking Plc?

The Beta of Lloyds Banking Group Plc is 1.18

What is the definition of Beta?



BETA indicates whether a stock is more or less volatile than the market as a whole. A beta less than 1 indicates that the stock is less volatile than the market, while a beta more than 1 indicates that the stock is more volatile. Volatility is measured as the fluctuation of the price around the mean.

Beta is a measure of the risk arising from exposure to general market movements as opposed to idiosyncratic factors. The market portfolio of all investable assets has a beta of exactly 1. A beta below 1 can indicate either an investment with lower volatility than the market, or a volatile investment whose price movements are not highly correlated with the market. A beta greater than one generally means that the asset both is volatile and tends to move up and down with the market. Beta is important because it measures the risk of an investment that cannot be reduced by diversification. It does not measure the risk of an investment held on a stand-alone basis, but the amount of risk the investment adds to an already-diversified portfolio. In the capital asset pricing model, beta risk is the only kind of risk for which investors should receive an expected return higher than the risk-free rate of interest.

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What does Lloyds Banking Plc do?

Lloyds Banking Group plc provides range of banking and financial services in the United Kingdom and internationally. It operates through three segments: Retail; Commercial Banking; and Insurance and Wealth. The Retail segment offers a range of financial service products, including current accounts, savings accounts, mortgages, motor finance, unsecured loans, leasing solutions, and credit cards to personal and small business customers. The Commercial Banking segment provides lending, transactional banking, working capital management, risk management, term lending, and debt capital markets services to corporate clients. The Insurance and Wealth segment offers life, home, and car insurance products; pensions and investment products; and advisory services in areas, including investments, planning for retirement, and protection and inheritance tax planning, as well as personal lending. It also provides digital, telephony, and mobile services. The company offers its products and services under the Lloyds Bank, Halifax, Black Horse, Agricultural Mortgage Corporation, Schroders Personal Wealth, Lex Autolease, Birmingham Midshires, MBNA, LDC, Bank of Scotland, and Scottish Widows brands. Lloyds Banking Group plc was founded in 1695 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

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