The Beta of Postal Savings Bank of China Co., Ltd. is 0.39
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.
Postal Savings Bank of China Co., Ltd. provides various banking products and services for retail and corporate customers in the People's Republic of China. Its Personal Banking segment offers savings products, such as demand, time, personal call, time/demand optional, and foreign currency deposits; passbooks; certificate of deposits; micro, personal pledged, and personal business loans; debit and credit cards; wealth management products and funds; and insurance agency services. This segment is also involved in distribution of fund products, electronic bonds, and precious metals; and provides payment and collection agency, various settlement, domestic remittance and exchange, cross-border remittance, personal exchange settlement and sale, and foreign currency exchange services. The company's Corporate Banking segment provides time, demand, call, and negotiated deposits; working capital, fixed asset, trade finance, stock pledge, land reserve, syndicated, real estate development, property mortgage, and consignment loans; cash management services; negotiable instruments; trade finance and international settlement services; and financial markets services. Its Treasury segment offers interbank lending transactions, repurchase and resale transactions, debt instrument investments, equity instrument investment, investment banking, bond securities, and wealth management products, etc., as well as trades in financial products comprising money market, fixed income, and foreign exchange products, as well as derivatives and precious metals. The company also provides online, mobile, and self-service banking services. As of December 31, 2020, it had 39,631 outlets, including 8,568 directly operated outlets and 31,763 agency outlets. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Beijing, the People's Republic of China. Postal Savings Bank of China Co., Ltd. is a subsidiary of China Post Group Corporation.