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Portfolio beta is used to measure the portfolio’s overall systematic risk of an investment which equals the weighted average of all individual stock’s beta coefficient in a portfolio.
The investment in stock S is 40% and in stock X is 60%. The stock S’s beta coefficient is 1.5 and the portfolio beta coefficient is 2.1.
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