[THE INVESTOR] On Oct. 7, Dongsung Chemical (005190) slightly edged down 1.14% to 21,700 won (US$ 19.45). It had declined 8.23% through the past month. Standard deviation, which indicates variableness, records 1.9% over the same period of time over one month.

Compared with its close competitors within the same industry, KOSPI, as the monthly volatility of Dongsung Chemical was relatively expand, the stock price was stay at a low level with decline. Over the recent month, the return-on-risk, the return on investment with consideration about risk, was -4.3%. As high volatility and a bearish stock price trend, the return-on-risk recorded the worst value among its peer group. Moreover, compared with the KOSPI industry, the return-on-risk is below the industrial mean, 1.8, and thus the industrial comparison performance was not so good.

Comparing industry to the market, the KOSPI industry including Dongsung Chemical records lower volatility but a higher earning rate than Chemicals. In other words, the industry had been safer with high returns.

From Sept. 21, institutions have been continuously selling Dongsung Chemical during the past 11 trading days. As a shareholding sum by investor group for the past 4 weeks, foreigners have bought 19,516 shares with a maintenance of shareholding and individuals have bought 116,948 shares with an increasing position. However, during the same period, institutions have sold 136,464 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.