[THE INVESTOR] On Oct. 14, Hanwha (000880) increased 2.09% to 36,650 won (US$ 32.36). It had increased 0.55% through the past month. Standard deviation, which indicates volatility of stock, records 1.8% over the same period over one month.

Compared with its close competitors within the same industry, KOSPI, as the monthly volatility was lower than that of its peer group, the earnings rate of Hanwha over one month was the lowest among its peer group. Over the recent month, the return-on-risk, the return on investment with consideration about risk, was 0.3. Though its volatility was not so high, the return-on-risk was the lowest because of a tumble of stock price. However, 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 KOSPI industry including Hanwha 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. 10, foreigners have been continuously buying Hanwha during the past 4 trading days. As a shareholding sum by investor group for the past 4 weeks, foreigners have bought 250,414 shares with a maintenance of shareholding. However, during the same period, institutions have sold 229,564 shares with a selling trend and individuals have sold 20,850 shares as they turn toward a selling stance.

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.