[THE INVESTOR] On Oct. 19, Samyang (145990) increased 4.27% to 110,000 won (US$97.93). It had increased 10.38% through the past month. Standard deviation, which indicates variableness, records 1.6% over the same period of time over one month.

Compared with its close competitors within the same industry, KOSPI, the monthly earnings rate of Samyang was the highest, but its volatility within one month was 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 6.4. With low volatility, a satisfactory stock price lead the return-on-risk to a high level. Moreover, compared with the KOSPI industry, the return-on-risk is much better than the industrial mean, 2.0, and thus the industrial comparison performance was good.

While institutions have been buying Samyang during the past eight trading days, foreigners have been selling during the past six trading days. As a shareholding sum by investor group for the past four weeks, foreigners have bought 35,778 shares with a maintenance of shareholding and institutions have bought 48,100 shares with trending trade. However, during the same period, individuals have sold 83,878 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.