[THE INVESTOR] On Oct. 20, Gwangju Shinsegae Department Store (037710) remained flat at 255,500 won (US$226.61 million). It had declined 2.47% through the past month. Standard deviation, which indicates risk, records 0.8% on the same period over one month.

Compared with its close competitors within the same industry, KOSPI, since the monthly volatility of Gwangju Shinsegae Department Store was the lowest, 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 -3.0%. Though the volatility was the lowest among its peer group, the return-on-risk was the lowest as tumbling of stock price. Moreover, compared with the KOSPI industry, the return-on-risk is below the industrial mean, 1.5, and thus the industrial comparison performance was not so good.

From Oct. 11, foreigners have been continuously buying Gwangju Shinsegae Department Store during the past seven trading days. As a shareholding sum by investor group for the past four weeks, foreigners have bought 743 shares with a maintenance of shareholding and individuals have bought 1,146 shares with an increasing position. However, during the same period, institutions have sold 1,889 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.