[THE INVESTOR] On Sept. 29, Dongkuk Industries (005160) was at a bearish 13.47% to 5,460 won (US$ 4.97). It had declined 8.79% through the past month. Standard deviation, which indicates risk, records 2.9% over the same period over one month.

Compared with its close competitors within the same industry, KOSDAQ, even though the monthly earnings rate of Dongkuk Industries was negative, its volatility for 1 month was relatively higher among its peer group. Over the recent month, the return-on-risk, the return on investment with consideration about risk, was -3.0%. Though the volatility was high, low decreasing rate of stock price lead that the return-on-risk remained around the average of its peer group. However, compared with the KOSDAQ industry, the return-on-risk is below the industrial mean, 1.6, and thus it is hard to say that the industrial comparison performance was positive.

Comparing industry to the market, the KOSDAQ industry including Dongkuk Industries records lower volatility and earning rate than Metal. In other words, the industry had less volatility and the returns were also smaller than the market.

From Sept. 26, institutions have been continuously selling Dongkuk Industries during the past 3 trading days. As a shareholding sum by investor group for the past 4 weeks, foreigners have bought 14,044 shares and individuals have bought 502,065 shares changing stance to buying from selling. However, during the same period, institutions have sold 516,109 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.