A high beta index is a basket of stocks that exhibit greater volatility than a broader market index like the S&P 500. The S&P 500 High Beta Index is the most well-known of these indexes.

When high-beta stocks stumble and markets turn volatile, AGFiQ U.S. Market Neutral Anti-Beta Fund (NYSEARCA:BTAL) is designed to deliver. The fund goes long low-beta stocks and short high-beta stocks, ...

・Stocks with betas higher than 1.0 are considered more volatile than the market, while stocks with betas lower than 1.0 are considered less volatile. ・The beta of a stock is statistically calculated ...

The Invesco S&P 500 High Beta ETF (SPHB) is up a sizzling 27.3% year to date. SPHB targets the stocks in the S&P 500 with the highest sensitivity to market movements, or beta, over the past 12 months.

State Street® SPDR® US Large Cap Low Volatility Index ETF offers exposure to a cohort of U.S. stocks with a weighted average 24-month beta of just 0.5. It makes perfect sense to consider low beta ...

BTAL gained 19% in 2022 when the S&P 500 fell 18%. The fund lost 22.8% in 2025 while the S&P 500 gained 17.2%. Over the past decade BTAL declined 23% while the S&P 500 surged 241%. Are you ahead, or ...