The Beta of SUEZ SA is 0.69
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.
Suez SA, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the water cycle and waste cycle management business in France, rest of Europe, North America, South America, Africa, the Middle East, and the Asia-Pacific. The company operates through four segments: Water; Recycling and Recovery; Environmental Technology & Solutions; and Other. It provides water distribution and treatment services to individuals, local authorities, and industrial clients; and waste and waste treatment services, including collection, sorting, recycling, composting, energy recovery, and landfilling for non-hazardous waste for local authorities and industrial clients. The company also offers water network management services; technical assistance, operation, cleaning, and maintenance services; and spare parts, refurbishment, and associated services, as well as designs and operates storage facilities for hazardous and non-hazardous residual waste. In addition, it provides resources management consulting services; engineering and construction contracts and other services; and digital technology solutions for resource and asset protection, as well as deconstructs sites in the end-of-life phase and decontaminates soil and water tables. The company serves food and beverage, chemical and pharmaceutical, construction, site deconstruction and soil decontamination, mining and metals, oil and gas, power, pulp and paper, electronics and electrical, automotive, transport, and aeronautic industries. Suez SA was founded in 1869 and is headquartered in Paris, France. As of January 7, 2022, Suez SA operates as a subsidiary of Veolia Environnement S.A.