[THE INVESTOR] On Sept. 23, Kumho Petro Chemical (011780) increased 2.33% to 66,000 won (US$ 59.82). It had declined 8.93% through the past month. Standard deviation, which indicates variableness, records 2.5% over the same period of time over one month.

Compared with its close competitors within the same industry, KOSPI, as the monthly volatility of Kumho Petro Chemical had relatively expanded, the investment return for 1 month was negative. Over the recent month, the return-on-risk, the return on investment with consideration about risk, was -3.5%. As high volatility and a bearish stock price trend, the return-on-risk recorded a low value. Moreover, compared with the KOSPI industry, the return-on-risk is below the industrial mean, 0.8, and thus it is hard to say that the industrial comparison performance was positive.

Comparing industry to the market, the KOSPI industry including Kumho Petro Chemical records lower volatility but a higher earning rate than chemicals. In other words, the industry had been safer with high returns.

From Sept. 20, foreigners have been continuously selling Kumho Petro Chemical during the past 3 trading days. As a shareholding sum by investor group for the past 4 weeks, foreigners have bought 212,887 shares with a maintenance of shareholding and individuals have bought 105,782 shares changing stance to buying from selling. However, during the same period, institutions have sold 318,669 shares with a selling trend.

Cumulated shareholdings per investor group (1Mo) Total shareholdings per investor group

By HeRo (hero@heraldcorp.com)

This article is produced by the algorithm developed by the artificial intelligence developer ThinkPool in collaboration with Herald Corp.