[THE INVESTOR] On Oct. 7, SeAH Steel (003030) increased 5.08% to 68,300 won (US$ 61.23). It had increased 4.69% through the past month. Standard deviation, which indicates variableness, records 2.1% on the same period of time over one month.

Compared with its close competitors within the same industry, KOSPI, the monthly earnings rate of Seah Steel was the highest, 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 2.2. With low volatility, a satisfactory stock price lead the return-on-risk to a high level. Moreover, compared with the KOSPI industry, the return-on-risk is much better than the industrial mean, 1.6, and thus the industrial comparison performance was good.

Comparing industry to the market, the KOSPI industry including Seah Steel records lower volatility but a higher earning rate than Iron & Metal Products. In other words, the industry had been safer with high returns.

Foreigners bought 206 shares, while institutions sold 1,062 shares. As a shareholding sum by investor group for the past 4 weeks, foreigners have sold 14,500 shares with maintenance of a selling position and institutions have sold 498 shares with dominant selling. However, during the same period, individuals have bought 14,998 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.