[THE INVESTOR] On Oct. 7, KEPCO KPS (051600) slightly edged down 4.28% to 53,700 won (US$48.14). It had declined 12.13% through the past month. Standard deviation, which indicates risk, records 1.7% on the same period over one month.

Compared with its close competitors within the same industry, KOSPI, even though the monthly volatility of KEPCO KPS 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 -7.1%. 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, 2.0, and thus the industrial comparison performance was not so good.

While institutions have been selling KEPCO KPS during the past seven trading days, foreigners have been buying during the past two trading days. As a shareholding sum by investor group for the past four weeks, foreigners have sold 34,134 shares and institutions have sold 314,407 shares with a selling trend. However, during the same period, individuals have bought 348,541 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.