Risk Measures by Market Cap Class (US)

Data Used: Value Line

Date of Analysis: Data used is as of January 2008

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 1684 110.05% 0.50 1.00 3.85 0.26
10-20 mil 408 108.69% 0.51 1.12 5.26 0.21
20-40 mil 487 81.51% 0.43 0.88 3.40 0.26
40-100 mil 812 51.85% 0.36 1.14 3.43 0.33
100-250 mil 880 47.48% 0.35 1.28 3.22 0.40
250 - 500 mil 663 44.56% 0.33 1.48 3.09 0.48
500-1000 mil 610 37.65% 0.31 1.43 2.65 0.54
1000-2500 mil 691 31.54% 0.26 1.34 2.22 0.61
2500-10000 mil 615 29.03% 0.24 1.15 1.78 0.65
>10000 mil 514 21.45% 0.22 1.06 1.51 0.70
All firms 7364 57.01% 0.35 1.19 2.68 0.44


Last Updated on January 2008
By Aswath Damodaran