[THE INVESTOR] On Oct. 14, Shinsegae (004170) increased 4.50% to 197,500 won (US$ 174.39). It had declined 2.29% through the past month. Standard deviation, which indicates volatility of stock, records 1.7% on the same period over one month.

Compared with its close competitors within the same industry, KOSPI, as the monthly volatility of Shinsegae remained at the highest level, the investment return for 1 month was negative. Over the recent month, the return-on-risk, the return on investment with consideration about risk, was -1.3%. As increasing of volatility and decline of stock price, the return-on-risk was poor. Moreover the KOSPI industry, the return-on-risk is below the industrial mean, -0.5, and thus it is hard to say that the industrial comparison performance was positive.

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

Institutions bought 2,683 shares, while foreigners sold 1,813 shares. As a shareholding sum by investor group for the past 4 weeks, foreigners have sold 67,218 shares with maintenance of a selling position and institutions have sold 50,065 shares with a selling trend. However, during the same period, individuals have bought 117,283 shares with an increasing 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.