Levered Beta Calculator: Optimize Your Financial Risk Assessment

Levered Beta quantifies how debt magnifies a stock’s market swings. Compute it with βL = βU × [1 + (1 – t) × D ⁄ E]. Because the U.S. federal corporate tax rate sits at 21 %, leverage raises equity risk about one-fifth less than in a tax-free scenario (IRS, 2023).