[THE INVESTOR] On Oct. 4, KCC (002380) declined 1.90 % to 388,000 won (US$ 350.24). It had declined 5.35% through the past month. Standard deviation, the variableness index, was 1.4% on the same period over one month.

Compared with its close competitors within the same industry, KOSPI, even though the monthly volatility of KCC was the lowest, the earnings rate over one month was also the lowest with a decline of stock price. Over the recent month, the return-on-risk, the return on investment with consideration about risk, was -3.8%. Though the volatility was the lowest among its peer group, the return-on-risk was the lowest as tumbling of stock price. Moreover, compared with the KOSPI industry, the return-on-risk is below the industrial mean, 1.1, and thus the industrial comparison performance was not so good.

Comparing industry to the market, the KOSPI industry including KCC records lower volatility and earning rate than Chemicals. In other words, the industry had less volatility and the returns were also smaller than the market.

While institutions have been buying KCC during the past 4 trading days, foreigners have been selling during the past 3 trading days. As a shareholding sum by investor group for the past 4 weeks, foreigners have sold 21,905 shares with maintenance of a selling position and institutions have sold 11,554 shares with a selling trend. However, during the same period, individuals have bought 33,459 shares with an increasing 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.