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Beta

Beta measures how much a stock tends to move relative to the overall market — above 1.0 means more volatile than the market, below 1.0 means less.

Beta is a measure of a stock’s sensitivity to movements in the broad market. A beta of 1.0 means the stock has historically moved roughly in line with the market; 1.5 means it tended to move 1.5× as much (up and down); 0.6 means it was less reactive than the market. Negative betas — stocks that move opposite the market — are rare.

Beta is a backward-looking, statistical measure of one kind of risk (co-movement with the market), not a forecast and not a measure of a company’s business quality. A low-beta stock is not automatically "safe," and a high-beta one is not automatically "bad" — they simply carry different sensitivity to market swings.

stocks-llm shows beta where available, as delayed data with its as-of date, as one risk-context measure among several.

Lowest-beta (least market-sensitive) companies in the catalog

Beta below 1.0 has historically moved less than the market. Low beta is not the same as "safe."

Live from the catalog, as of 2026-07-21 — delayed data from SEC EDGAR + Finnhub.

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