[THE INVESTOR] On Oct. 20, Korean Re (003690) declined 0.84% to 11,800 won (US$ 10.47). It had declined 2.9% through the past month. Standard deviation, which indicates volatility of stock, records 1% over the same period over one month.

Compared with its close competitors within the same industry, KOSPI, since the monthly volatility of Korean Re was at a low level, the earnings rate over one month 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 -2.8%. By tumbling of stock price, the return-on-risk is the lowest among its peer group in spite of low volatility. Moreover, compared with the KOSPI industry, the return-on-risk is below the industrial mean, 1.3, and thus the industrial comparison performance was not so good.

From Oct. 04, foreigners have been continuously buying Korean Re during the past 12 trading days. As a shareholding sum by investor group for the past 4 weeks, foreigners have bought 783,102 shares with a maintenance of shareholding and individuals have bought 192,418 shares lessening its position. However, during the same period, institutions have sold 975,520 shares with a 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.