[THE INVESTOR] On Oct. 5, Samsung SDS (018260) increased 7.62 % to 162,500 won (US$ 145.87). It had declined 2.81% through the past month. Standard deviation, which indicates risk, records 2.4% on the same period over one month.

Compared with its close competitors within the same industry, KOSPI, as the monthly volatility of Samsung SDS remained at the highest level, 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 -1.1%. As increasing of volatility and decline of stock price, the return-on-risk was poor. Moreover, compared with the KOSPI 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 KOSPI industry including Samsung SDS records lower volatility and earning rate than Services. In other words, the industry had less volatility and the returns were also smaller than the market.

While institutions have been buying Samsung SDS during the past 7 trading days, foreigners have been selling during the past 2 trading days. As a shareholding sum by investor group for the past 4 weeks, foreigners have sold 33,771 shares and institutions have sold 125,603 shares with dominant selling. However, during the same period, individuals have bought 159,374 shares lessening its 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.