Risk Measures by Market Cap Class (US)

Data Used: Value Line

Date of Analysis: Data used is as of January 2009

Critieria for inclusion: All publicly traded firms in the United States


Size class Number of firms Standard deviation HiLo Risk Measure Market Beta Total Beta Correlation
<10 mil 1813 106.75% 0.74 1.12 4.91 0.23
10-20 mil 498 70.81% 0.68 1.18 4.46 0.26
20-40 mil 586 69.42% 0.63 1.22 4.11 0.30
40-100 mil 754 71.28% 0.57 1.22 3.55 0.34
100-250 mil 760 49.76% 0.55 1.24 3.11 0.40
250 - 500 mil 615 54.14% 0.54 1.28 2.98 0.43
500-1000 mil 511 41.76% 0.49 1.12 2.37 0.47
1000-2500 mil 527 37.20% 0.46 1.11 2.12 0.52
2500-10000 mil 436 32.74% 0.46 1.12 2.03 0.55
>10000 mil 370 26.84% 0.40 1.01 1.70 0.59
All firms 6870 64.10% 0.59 1.16 3.07 0.38


Last Updated on January 2009
By Aswath Damodaran