[THE INVESTOR] On Oct. 13, Lotte Chemical (011170) declined 4.51% to 296,500 won (US$ 261.03). It had increased 9.56% through the past month. Standard deviation, which indicates volatility of stock, records 2.1% over the same period over one month.

Compared with its close competitors within the same industry, KOSPI, the monthly earnings rate of Lotte Chemical was considerably higher than that of its peer group and volatility of it within 1 month was the highest. Over the recent month, the return-on-risk, the return on investment with consideration about risk, was 4.5. Though its volatility was high, the return-on-risk was good with higher return. Moreover the KOSPI industry, the return-on-risk is much better than the industrial mean, -3.3, and thus the industrial comparison performance was positive.

Comparing industry to the market, the KOSPI industry including Lotte Chemical records lower volatility and earning rate than Chemicals. In other words, the industry was safer and the rate of decrease is smaller than that of the market.

From Oct. 11, foreigners have been continuously buying Lotte Chemical during the past 2 trading days. As a shareholding sum by investor group for the past 4 weeks, institutions have bought 279,665 shares with trending trade. However, during the same period, foreigners have sold 31,449 shares and individuals have sold 248,216 shares with a decreasing 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.