Example Sentences

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On June 5, when the chip ETF fell 9.2%, several utility and real estate stocks showed resilience, with betas below one.

From Barron's • Jun. 16, 2026

Consider the performance of a hypothetical portfolio that buys the 10% of stocks with the highest betas and sells short the decile of stocks with the lowest betas.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 23, 2025

“We’re betas pretending to be alphas,” Denton said.

From New York Times • Nov. 3, 2022

If you missed out on those betas, you can at least get some idea of what the game will look like by watching some Overwatch League.

From The Verge • Aug. 16, 2022

Greek letters move across the undersides of his eyelids: isosceles triangles, betas, sine curves.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr