high-beta

high-beta definition - finance
A high level of volatility and therefore risk; used to refer to investments. While high-beta investments tend to outperform the market when the market is going up, they also will accelerate their losses when the market moves down.  Stocks with a beta above 1 are considered to have a high-beta. See also beta.

Webster's New World Finance and Investment Dictionary Copyright © 2003 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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