How to Calculate Stock Beta in Excel-Replicating Yahoo Stock Beta

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In a previous post, we presented a method for calculating a stock beta and implemented it in Python. In this follow-up post, we are going to implement the calculation in Excel. We continue to use Facebook as an example.

What is beta?

Recall that,

In finance, the beta (market beta or beta coefficient) is a measure of how an individual asset moves (on average) when the overall stock market increases or decreases. As such, beta is a useful measure of the contribution of an individual asset to the risk of the market portfolio when it is added in small quantity. Thus, beta is referred to as an asset’s non-diversifiable risk, its systematic risk, market risk, or hedge ratio. Beta is not a measure of idiosyncratic risk. Read more

Formula for calculating stock beta

We utilize the following equation to calculate the stock beta,

Quantitative analysis of stock beta

where

  • rS is the stock return,
  • rM is the market return,
  • Cov denotes the return covariance and,
  • Var denotes the return variance.

Excel workbook for calculating stock beta

We downloaded 5 years of monthly Facebook data from Yahoo Finance. We implemented the above equation in Excel and obtained a beta of 1.21

How to calculate stock beta in Excel

The picture below shows Facebook beta calculated by Yahoo Finance. It is 1.26. Our result agrees well with Yahoo’s result, although there is a small difference.

stock beta calculation using Excel

Let us know what you think where the difference comes from.

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