Risk Measures by Market Cap Class (US)

Data Used: Multiple data services

Date of Analysis: Data used is as of January 2025

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

Market Cap in millions of US$ Number of firms Aggregate Market Cap Cash/Firm Value Market Debt to capital ratio (median) Median Beta Correlation with market (median)  Standard deviation in stock price (median) Total Beta HiL0 Risk Measure (Hi- lo)/ (Hi+Lo) (median) Interest Coverage Ratio
Bottom decile 461 $8,133.40 6.16% 9.15% 0.69 12.25% 79.16% 5.65 0.6296 NA
2nd decile 462 $19,766.10 7.45% 13.53% 0.48 13.04% 66.00% 3.71 0.4410 NA
3rd decile 461 $41,355.10 10.47% 9.67% 0.48 14.14% 52.09% 3.43 0.3721 NA
4th decile 462 $85,457.60 8.70% 19.31% 0.79 22.58% 48.57% 3.48 0.3721 NA
5th decile 462 $173,914.40 7.58% 18.93% 1.02 29.66% 46.89% 3.44 0.3489 NA
6th decile 462 $364,514.80 6.89% 28.26% 1.01 33.02% 41.70% 3.07 0.2981 0.75
7th decile 461 $781,325.80 5.72% 28.38% 1.12 37.68% 40.03% 2.97 0.2951 0.87
8th decile 462 $1,734,568.70 4.80% 28.71% 1.03 40.50% 34.19% 2.55 0.2534 2.63
9th decile 462 $4,324,327.60 3.33% 26.64% 1.02 43.93% 30.25% 2.33 0.2347 3.55
Top decile 462 $52,536,117.00 2.81% 18.47% 0.90 44.94% 24.90% 2.00 0.2083 9.08
All firms 4,617 $60,069,480.50 3.99% 16.77% 0.92 23.87% 41.01% 3.86 0.3861 6.38

 


Updated in January 2025
By Aswath Damodaran