[THE INVESTOR] On Oct. 4, SungKwang Bend (014620) increased 3.84 % to 9,200 won (US$ 8.30). It had increased 0.78% through the past month. Standard deviation, which indicates volatility of stock, records 2.1% on the same period over one month.

Compared with its close competitors within the same industry, KOSDAQ, the monthly earnings rate of SungKwang Bend was considerably higher than that of its peer group, but its volatility within 1 month was relatively lower than that of its peer group. Over the recent month, the return-on-risk, the return on investment with consideration about risk, was 0.3. With low volatility, a satisfactory stock price lead the return-on-risk to a high level. However, compared with the KOSDAQ industry, the return-on-risk is below the industrial mean, 3.3, and thus the industrial comparison performance was not so good.

Comparing industry to the market, the KOSDAQ industry including SungKwang Bend 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. 29, institutions have been continuously buying SungKwang Bend during the past 2 trading days. As a shareholding sum by investor group for the past 4 weeks, institutions have bought 48,753 shares as they turn toward a buying stance and Individuals have bought 298,606 shares with an increasing position. However, during the same period, foreigners have sold 347,359 shares with maintenance of a selling position.

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.