The risk created by management, labor or business problems that affect just one company. For example, the value of a particular common stock may fall if the products produced by the company fall out of favor with consumers. See Investment risk.
the risk (annualised standard deviation) of the specific return
Uncertainty of investment returns arising from factors that are specific to the company or industry.
The potential variability in the return offered by a share as a result of factors specific to the company. This risk can be diversified away (c.f. market risk).
The portion of the riskiness of an asset that is peculiar to that asset, and therefore can be diversified away.
specific risk is the portion of a securityâ€(tm)s market risk that is unique to that security. For example, the risk that an individual stockâ€(tm)s price may vary because of its industrial sector rather than the broader equity market.
Uncertainty of return arising from factors that are specific to the company involved, and thus unrelated to similar risk reflected in wider market movements.
Uncertainty in the return of a share arising from factors that are specific to the company concerned. It is unrelated, or, at most, distantly related, to events that impact on other comparable firms or the market as a whole. Unlike market risk, specific risk can be diversified away.
Risk which is unique to a particular asset or liability.
In finance, a specific risk is a risk that affects a very small number of assets. This is sometimes referred to as "unsystematic risk". In a balanced portfolio of assets there'd be a spread between general market risk and risks specific to individual components of that portfolio.