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Casino Firms' Risk Features and their Beta Determinants

Zheng Gu, Hyunjoon Kim

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This study examines the risk features of casino firms. In particular, it investigates the systematic and unsystematic risks of investing in casino stocks and the determinants of their systematic risk, or beta. Using the financial data of 35 USA casino firms from 1992 through 1994, the study found that 92% of their total risk was contributed by firm-specific unsystematic risk. The rest was due to their market-related systematic risk. The systematic risk was found to be negatively correlated with assets turnover ratio. The findings suggest that making existing gaming capacity more productive, rather than expanding, may reduce a casino firm's systematic risk and enhance the firm value. Copyright © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Key concepts: Systematic risk, Business, Financial risk management, Specific risk, Financial risk, Value (mathematics), Market risk, Economics