■ Market Review

As of Oct. 27 10:40 A.M., Foosung (093370) increased 3.74%, compared with yesterday, to 7,760 won (US$6.82). It had increased 6.89% through the past month. Standard deviation, which indicates risk, records 2.7% over the same period over one month.

Compared with its close competitors within the same industry, KOSPI, the monthly earnings rate of Foosung was considerably higher than that of its peer group and volatility of it within one month was the highest. Over the recent month, the return-on-risk, the return on investment with consideration about risk, was 2.5. Though its volatility was high, the return-on-risk was good with higher return. Moreover, compared with the KOSPI industry, the return-on-risk is much better than the industrial mean, -3.3, and thus the industrial comparison performance was positive.

Comparing industry to the market, the KOSPI industry including Foosung records higher volatility but lower earning rate than Chemicals. Even though the earning rate of the industry is negative, the industry was more satisfactory than the market.

Close Competitors Earning rate (%) STD (1Mo) Return on Risk (1Mo)
1 Mo 3 Mo 6 Mo
FOOSUNG(093370) 6.9% 2.1% 47.3% 2.7% 2.5
L&L(115390) 8.9% 5.1% 1.1% 2.0% 4.4
LOTTE Fine Chem(004000) -10.2% -16.3% -19.4% 2.0% -5.0
DONGAH TIRE(007340) -5.4% -7.8% -16.6% 1.5% -3.5
HANKOOK SHELL OIL(002960) 0.0% -1.6% -7.7% 0.6% 0.1
Chemicals -3.1% -2.4% -3.7% 0.9% -3.4
KOSPI -2.0% -1.1% 0.3% 0.6% -3.3

■ Earnings & Valuation

FOOSUNG(093370): 2Q(Apr ~ June) of 2016 Earnings (reported at Aug. 17. 2016)
Revenue Operating Income Net Income
2Q of 2016 592.1 T 94.4 T 82.5 T
Previous Quarter 1.7% decline 11.2% increase 8.9% increase
YoY 10.8% increase 144.5% increase 142.5% increase

Financial structure Overview

Compared with four close competitors with similar market capitalization within its industry, while Foosung's P/E ratio, a price-paid ratio of annual net income, is relatively higher value, its P/B ratio, a financial ratio of a company's book value, records a proper value.

P/E ratio and P/B ratio

Close Compatitors ROE PER PBR Basic Date
FOOSUNG(093370) 21.4 28.9 6.2 June 2016
DONGAH TIRE(007340) 12.5 5.9 0.7 June 2016
HANKOOK SHELL OIL(002960) 32.7 19.9 6.5 June 2016
LOTTE Fine Chem(004000) 0.0 1824.0 0.7 June 2016
L&L(115390) 3.7 30.7 1.1 June 2016

■ Investor Group

Institutions and Foreigners buy, Individuals sell From Oct. 12, Institutions have been continuously buying Foosung during the past 11 trading days. As a shareholding sum by investor group for the past four weeks, foreigners have bought 82,694 shares and institutions have bought 2,293,684 shares with trending trade. However, during the same period, individuals have sold 2,376,378 shares with a decreasing position.

Turnover Rate and Price Range both proper Regarding the statistics for the past month on trade volume as the total outstanding shares, the daily turnover rate of Foosung was 1.38%. And the daily volatility, the average range of rise and fall, during the same period is 4.93%.

The main shareholding group is Individuals As per the inquiry for shareholding by investor group, the major investor group is individuals with 79.73% from total outstanding shares. Institutions and foreigners each hold 10.3% and 9.96%. And as recent five-day shareholding change by investor group, individuals is the major investor group with 82.14%. Institutions hold 8.97% and foreigners hold 8.88%.

Cumulated shareholdings per investor group (1Mo) Total shareholdings per investor group

* Other Investor groups, included as "other corporations", are considered as "Individuals".

By HeRo (hero@heraldcorp.com)By HeRo (hero@heraldcorp.com)

This article is produced by the algorithm developed by the artificial intelligence developer ThinkPool in collaboration with Herald Corp