[THE INVESTOR] On Oct. 14, IHQ (003560) increased 3.37% to 2,140 won (US$ 1.89). It had increased 4.39% through the past month. Standard deviation, which indicates variableness, records 2.8% on the same period of time over one month.

Compared with its close competitors within the same industry, KOSPI, the monthly earnings rate of IHQ was the highest and its volatility over one month was also the highest. Over the recent month, the return-on-risk, the return on investment with consideration about risk, was 1.5. Though its volatility was the highest among its peer group, an incredible increase of stock price lead to good return-on-risk. Moreover the KOSPI industry, the return-on-risk is much better than the industrial mean, -1.0, and thus the industrial comparison performance was good.

Comparing industry to the market, the KOSPI industry including IHQ records higher volatility but lower earning rate than Services. Even though the earning rate of the industry is negative, the industry was more satisfactory than the market.

From Oct. 10, foreigners have been continuously buying IHQ during the past 4 trading days. As a shareholding sum by investor group for the past 4 weeks, institutions have bought 417,411 shares in spite of lowered the position recently. However, during the same period, foreigners have sold 83,831 shares and individuals have sold 333,580 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.