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Lepidico Beta

What is the Beta of Lepidico?

The Beta of Lepidico Limited is 0.87

What is the definition of Beta?



BETA indicates whether a stock is more or less volatile than the market as a whole. A beta less than 1 indicates that the stock is less volatile than the market, while a beta more than 1 indicates that the stock is more volatile. Volatility is measured as the fluctuation of the price around the mean.

Beta is a measure of the risk arising from exposure to general market movements as opposed to idiosyncratic factors. The market portfolio of all investable assets has a beta of exactly 1. A beta below 1 can indicate either an investment with lower volatility than the market, or a volatile investment whose price movements are not highly correlated with the market. A beta greater than one generally means that the asset both is volatile and tends to move up and down with the market. Beta is important because it measures the risk of an investment that cannot be reduced by diversification. It does not measure the risk of an investment held on a stand-alone basis, but the amount of risk the investment adds to an already-diversified portfolio. In the capital asset pricing model, beta risk is the only kind of risk for which investors should receive an expected return higher than the risk-free rate of interest.

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What does Lepidico do?

Lepidico Limited engages in the exploration, development, and production of lithium chemicals in Australia and internationally. The company operates through two segments, Mineral Exploration and Technology. Its technologies include L-Max technology, a hydro-metallurgical process for processing lithium mica slurry; S-Max that produces amorphous silica from a range of mica minerals, including lithium micas; and LOH-Max process, which produces high purity lithium hydroxide from lithium sulphate. In addition, it holds an 80% interest in the Karibib project located within the Karibib pegmatite belt in central Namibia in southwestern Africa. Lepidico Limited has a strategic collaboration with Cornish Lithium Ltd to focus on the development of a lithium chemical manufacturing center. The company was incorporated in 1979 and is based in Belmont, Australia.

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