How to Calculate Beta with Excel

Description
This video will explain how to calculate Beta, which is a very important calculation. the company Colgate is used as an example.

How to calculate Beta of a stock using Excel:

When being interviewed for an equity research analyst job, you will almost definitely be asked "How do you calculate Beta value?". Therefore, as an equity research analyst, you will need to know how to calculate this. There are two steps:

1. Data Collection: Here you collect the closing price of the benchmark index.

2. Calculate stock Bets in Excel: You will learn how to calculate market Beta.

Both of these steps are explained in the video. You will also learn how to calculate stock by using the SLOPE function.

Video length: 18:43