Saab's market capitalisation was sek 13.4 billion at year-end 2010.
The price of the Series b share rose during the year by 4 per cent, compared to an increase of 23 per cent for the omx index. The total return on Saab's Series b share – i.e., the dividend plus the change in the share price – has been -18 per cent over the last five years.
A total of 48,704,378 Series b shares were traded in 2010, nearly all of which was through nasdaq omx Stockholm. The marketplaces nasdaq omx Europe, bats Europe, boat, Burgundy, Chi-X, Germany and Turqouise accounted in total for less than 1 per cent of turnover in the Saab share. The share's closing price reached a high of sek 128.75 on 21 January and a low of sek 84.10 on 5 July.
Beta shows how much a share fluctuates in relation to the market as a whole. A low beta (<1) indicates a low risk in relation to other stocks in the market. A high beta (>1) means a higher risk. According to SIX's calculations the beta for Saab’s Series B share was 1.12, indicating that it fluctuated in line with the market average, measured according to SIX General Index over a 48-month period. Saab’s stock covariance was 0.257, which means that 25.7 per cent of the share’s price performance is due to the market’s development as a whole.