[THE INVESTOR] On Oct. 10, Kortek (052330) increased 1.93% to 13,200 on (US$ 11.91). It had increased 9.5% through the past month. Standard deviation, the volatility index for stock price, was 1.5% on the same period of time over one month.

Compared with its close competitors within the same industry, KOSDAQ, the monthly earnings rate of Kortek was considerably higher than that of its peer group, 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 6.3. With low volatility, a satisfactory stock price lead the return-on-risk to a high level. Moreover, compared with the KOSDAQ industry, the return-on-risk is much better than the industrial mean, -0.7, and thus the industrial comparison performance was good.

Comparing industry to the market, the KOSDAQ industry including Kortek records higher volatility but lower earning rate than Information Instrument. Even though the earning rate of the industry is negative, the industry was more satisfactory than the market.

From Oct. 06, foreigners have been continuously selling Kortek during the past 2 trading days. As a shareholding sum by investor group for the past 4 weeks, institutions have bought 6,338 shares in spite of lowered the position recently and individuals have bought 59,117 shares changing stance to buying from selling. However, during the same period, foreigners have sold 65,455 shares with maintenance of a selling 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.