Asset Allocation & Portfolio Management: Stock sensibility (alpha and beta)

The result of the regressing stock price on the market changes can be represented as follows:

Stocks with Beta greater than 1 are considered as very volatile and stocks with Beta between 0 and 1 are considered as conservative. We can have also stocks with negative Beta's that reacts in the other direction than the market movements.

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