The Beta of Mühlbauer Holding AG & Co. KGaA is 0.38
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.
Mühlbauer Holding AG engages in the production and personalization of smart cards, passports, and RFID solutions worldwide. The company develops and assembles customized production systems, as well as provides matching software solutions for the production process of document and solution related products. It also provides semiconductor related products, such as die sorting, carrier tapes, flip chips for LED, RFID/SMART labels, flexible solar technology, and multicomponent flexible electronic; vision inspection products, such as TEMA security inspection and TEMA industrial inspection equipment; and accessories, such as card measuring stations, UV-lamps, thread counters, color fans, tool trollies, and cardboard cartons for cards. In addition, the company offers emobility, flexible solar, and flexible electronics solutions; and government solutions, which include ID card, e-passport, driver's license and vehicle registration, document verification, border management, e-government, and production facility solutions. Further, it offers automation, marking, and traceability systems, as well as government and industry specific software solutions; and operates in the solar back-end industry. The company was founded in 1981 and is based in Roding, Germany.