Depending on how much volatility you are willing to handle, you can get a good idea of what a stock’s volatility is by looking at a stock’s Beta. I get the Beta for the stocks I cover from TD WebBroker, but you can get it easily from Globe and Mail investing site. Take Fortis Inc’s Beta, in the above site do a quote lookup for FTS and you will get FTS Quote . Click on the Statistics tab and you will see 36 Month Beta, which on May 30 was 0.35.
For Fortis, Beta number is low. Most utilities are. A Beta greater than 1.0 suggests that the stock is more volatile than the broader market, and a beta less than 1.0 indicates a stock with lower volatility. A negative beta describes an investment that tends to increase in price when the general market price falls and vice versa.
However, the stock market has bull markets and bear markets. A stock might have a low Beta, but go down a lot in the bear market. With me, I know I have good stocks and generally do not worry about bear markets. That is because my good stocks will recover once the market does.
On my other blog I wrote yesterday about HLS Therapeutics Inc (TSX-HLS, OTC-HLTRF) ... learn more. Next, I will write about Reitmans (Canada) Ltd (TSX-RET.A, OTC-RTMAF) ... learn more on Wednesday, May 31, 2023 around 5 pm.
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