All five major indices closed well in the black with
higher beta stocks showing the most strength.
High beta stocks showed the most relative strength as the small - cap Russell 2000, S&P MidCap 400 and Nasdaq managed gains of 0.7 %, 0.5 % and 0.4 % respectively.
When this group is richly valued - as it is now -
high beta stocks underperform the market by an incredible 28.5 percent.
GMO's Investment Strategist Jeremy Grantham has noted that
high beta stocks underperform the market during bear markets (suffering a peak to trough real return of -9 percent).
When I read about Beta, I wonder about just buying and holding
the highest Beta stocks on earth for the long run.
Grice shows that over long periods of time low beta stocks outperform
high beta stocks due in part to this:
Of course, the same holds true for when the market is down 1 %,
a high beta stock will be down more than 1 %, while a low beta should be down less than 1 %.
My point was that if you select
high beta stocks during a bull market you should expect to outperform the averages, and likewise, when the market turns down you should expect to underperform significantly.
High beta stocks rally more than the broad stock index in a bull market.
This also means that
a high beta stock will fall more than the index when the broad market goes down.
Explore differences between accessing
high beta stocks with either mutual funds or ETFs, as well as the best options for long - term holds and trading.
High beta stocks tend to have bigger gains during bull markets and bigger losses during bear markets.
No doubt Ed will have more info on this, but the paper «Betting Against Beta» by Frazzini & Pedersen to which he refers above can be found at http://www.econ.yale.edu/~af227/pdf/Betting%20Against%20Beta%20-%20Frazzini%20and%20Pedersen.pdf The basic idea of the paper is that investors are apt to bid up
high beta stocks because it's a way of leveraging their portfolio without actually borrowing to invest.
He postulated that it was the incentive systems of long only fund managers that led them to seek pseudo-leverage through
high beta stocks leading to them being systematically overvalued.
James Simons likely points to
high beta stocks when asked.
I follow
high beta stocks which falls more than the rest.
What's behind the performance of
high beta stocks?
The strong quarterly performance of
high beta stocks makes sense when you consider that high beta can outpace low volatility during periods of rising 10 - year Treasury yields and stronger economic growth, when investor demand for defensive stocks may ease.
In sectors, financials and energy were weak —
high beta stocks that have done well since Trump's election.
Not exact matches
Recent grads with big dreams and uncertain futures often think of themselves as «
high -
beta stocks,» he writes:
High -
beta stocks are simply the shares of companies whose
stocks trade with above - average volatility — and like the twin peaks of a two - humped financial camel, these
stocks carry both above - average risk and, potentially, above - average reward.
If you are a recent graduate, looking for a job, or simply trying to decide what to do next, you might believe that you are akin to a volatile
high -
beta stock — an awkward - looking mammal burdened with both extraordinary risk and, if you can just make all the right choices, potentially unlimited reward.
In order to achieve these type of gains, the
stocks we swing trade are typically
high beta, with plenty of volatility.
For example, investors typically equate
higher beta or riskier «glamor
stocks» with momentum.
Growth
stocks are
high beta, when they fall they fall hard.
And you do not have to buy
high beta (volatile)
stocks.
«As the market climbs to new
highs, investors are paying more attention to the short side of their books and making sure they have sufficient hedging positions of either ETFs or
beta stocks to recoup long - side losses if the market drops,» Dusaniwsky says.
SUMMARY It's difficult to rationalise why there should be excess returns from
high quality
stocks The Quality factor needs to be constructed
beta - neutral to achieve positive returns Exposure to the Quality factor is an attractive hedge for an equity - centric portfolio INTRODUCTION The concept of
How can investors best exploit research showing that low -
beta (
high -
beta)
stocks tend to outperform (underperform)?
Options on highly liquid,
high -
beta stocks make the best candidates for short - term trading based on RSI.
A bear market tends to favor lower volatility
stocks while a bull market favors
higher beta / growth
stocks.
If you think AAPL will go down (and it might), that means the Bull market is over and you'll do much better shorting overpriced
high -
beta stocks.
Generally, the
higher a
stock's
beta, the more volatile it is.
A
stock that performs 50 percent worse than the S&P 500 in a down market and a
stock that performs 50 percent better than the S&P 500 in an up market will each have a
high beta.
To Burkly's point, six of the eight
highest -
beta stocks have fallen 20 percent or more over the past year, perhaps reflecting the propensity of volatility to the downside to outpace volatility to the upside.
NASDAQ
stocks, especially those with
high betas, fell last Thursday because of a JPMorgan equity research note expressing caution about Baidu's (NASDAQ: BIDU) 3Q revenue estimates.
Also, you can assemble your DGI portfolio to have less volatility (
beta) than the index by a
higher allocation to
stocks in consumer staples and utilities sectors.
The idea behind this theory is that, as big investors sense that smaller - cap,
higher -
beta stocks have reached a point of overvaluation and
high risk, these investors move money from the overvalued
stocks into the Dow
stocks, which are traditionally considered more stable and more liquid.
«If oil prices do weaken into next year, and... [the] supply - demand analysis we «ve done tells us that, these
stocks should do relatively better than most of the smaller,
higher -
beta energy
stocks,» he said.
These
stocks all carry
high Betas, reflecting to a large degree their sensitivity to trends in the broader economy.
From an investment perspective, a
high Beta is one of the most notable features of the typical Manufacturing & Mining
stock.
The Enhanced Inflation Timer uses one additional criterion in the buy rule for
stocks (and sell rule for bonds);
high -
beta stocks must perform better than low -
beta stocks.
This is based on its
high beta, which is a good indicator for how much the
stock moves relative to the rest of the market.
His theory is the Emerging Markets have added
beta over US
stocks and may perform better in the future due to
higher expected GDP growth.
This is because the very long - term leases that underpin their steady and predictable cash flows (new leases are generally for 15 to 20 years) also create a
higher beta to yield (i.e. their
stock prices react more severely to movements in interest rates).
Low -
beta stocks therefore offer
higher expected returns because you take on the risk of losing everything without the reward of the
higher upside.
It appears that you can benefit by actually avoiding
high -
beta stocks like the plague.
But instead of dividing the universe of
stocks into 10 equal groups he picked 100
stocks with the
highest betas and another group of 100 with the lowest
betas.
If its shareholders were constantly buying and selling the
stock, the
beta for Honda would be much
higher.
This is alluring as studies have shown that the low
beta stocks have the
highest returns.