[THE INVESTOR] On Oct. 14, SK Gas (018670) rose 1.7% 101,500 won (US$89.7). It had edged along with a similar price through the past month. Standard deviation, the variableness index, was 1.5% over the same period over one month.

Compared with its close competitors within the same industry, KOSPI, as the monthly volatility of SK Gas was lowest, the earnings rate was also 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 0.1%. Though the volatility was the lowest among its peer group, the return-on-risk was low through a decline in investment returns. However, the return-on-risk is much better than the industrial mean, -0.7, and thus the industrial comparison performance was positive.

From Oct. 12, foreigners have been continuously selling SK Gas during the past 2 trading days. As a shareholding sum by investor group for the past 4 weeks, foreigners have bought 40,945 shares with a maintenance of shareholding. However, during the same period, institutions have sold 16,663 shares with a changing stance to selling from buying and individuals have sold 24,282 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.