Do you think the following companies would have a high, low, or average beta? Explain your answer using references from the background readings and your knowledge of CAPM and beta:

The ACME Umbrella companys stock goes up a lot when it rains, but goes down when it is sunny. Nothing else but the weather seems to impact ACMEs stock price.

Vultures, Inc., specializes in buying assets of bankrupt companies at a discount. Vultures stock price seems to go up whenever other companies are doing poorly and going bankrupt, but goes down when other companies are doing well and they have few bankrupt companies to prey on.

Unoriginal, Inc., can never decide what products they want to focus on so they make many different products in several different industries. They also invest much of their profits into 100 or so other companies that are listed on the stock exchange.