[THE INVESTOR] On Oct. 18, SK Gas (018670) increased 3.05% to 101,500 won (US$89.6). It had edged along with a similar price through the past month. Standard deviation, the risk index for stock price, was 1.5% on the same period of time over one month.

Compared with its close competitors within the same industry, KOSPI, while the monthly earnings rate of SK Gas had edged along, its volatility for 1 month was at the lowest level. Over the recent month, the return-on-risk, the return on investment with consideration about risk, was 0.1%. Even though there is no increasing on the return, low volatility lead the return-on-risk to a proper rate. However, compared with the KOSPI industry, the return-on-risk is below the industrial mean, 2.5, and thus it is hard to say that the industrial comparison performance was positive.

From Oct. 14, institutions 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 41,674 shares with a maintenance of shareholding. However, during the same period, institutions have sold 20,504 shares with a changing stance to selling from buying and individuals have sold 21,170 shares in a lessening selling trend.

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.