Risk Measures by Market Cap Class (US)

Data Used: Value Line

Date of Analysis: Data used is as of January 2010

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

Size class Number of firms Aggregate Mkt Cap/ Net income Standard deviation HiLo Risk Measure Market Beta Total Beta Correlation
<10 mil 1965 NA 123.35% 0.6325 0.97 5.71 16.96%
10-20 mil 469 NA 86.05% 0.5964 0.95 5.08 18.63%
20-40 mil 506 NA 78.65% 0.5413 0.98 4.46 21.90%
40-100 mil 680 NA 71.13% 0.5219 1.14 4.50 25.27%
100-250 mil 764 103.00 71.06% 0.5187 1.36 4.66 29.28%
250 - 500 mil 576 25.46 62.33% 0.4798 1.35 4.04 33.34%
500-1000 mil 552 11.29 58.77% 0.4582 1.38 3.88 35.55%
1000-2500 mil 608 12.72 48.11% 0.4186 1.27 3.14 40.46%
2500-10000 mil 575 9.45 44.02% 0.3888 1.23 2.81 43.74%
>10000 mil 341 12.46 35.84% 0.3387 1.09 2.22 49.28%
All firms 7036 12.42 74.99% 0.5126 1.16 3.89 29.86%

Updated in January 2010
By Aswath Damodaran