■ Market Review

On Oct. 26, Boryung Medience (014100) declined 3.88% to 14,850 won (US$13.13). It had declined 13.91% through the past month. Standard deviation, the volatility index for stock price, was 2.4% over the same period of time over one month.

Compared with its close competitors within the same industry, KOSDAQ, since the monthly volatility of Boryung Medience 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 -5.7%. Though the volatility was the lowest among its peer group, the return-on-risk was the lowest as tumbling of stock price. However, the return-on-risk is much better than the industrial mean, -9.2, and thus the industrial comparison performance was good.

Comparing industry to the market, the KOSDAQ industry including Boryung Medience records lower volatility and earning rate than chemicals. In other words, the industry was safer and the rate of decrease is smaller than that of the market.

Close Competitors Earning rate (%) STD (1Mo) Return on Risk (1Mo)
1 Mo 3 Mo 6 Mo
KPM TECH(042040) -25.0% 60.3% 228.6% 4.9% -5.1
JC Chemical(137950) 30.3% 38.4% 139.2% 3.7% 8.1
DNF(092070) 14.8% 11.4% -12.0% 2.9% 5.1
ANP(121600) 2.7% -4.5% 6.9% 2.6% 1.0
BRM(014100) -13.9% -12.4% -26.7% 2.4% -5.7
Chemicals -6.4% -5.7% -5.7% 1.0% -6.4
KOSDAQ -7.4% -7.4% -10.1% 0.8% -9.2

■ Earnings & Valuation

BRM(014100): 2Q(Apr ~ June) of 2016 Earnings (reported at Aug. 17. 2016)
Revenue Operating Income Net Income
2Q of 2016 355.5 T 25.8 T 23.8 T
Previous Quarter 5.7% increase 18.0% increase 45.2% increase
YoY 5.3% increase 117.1% increase 135.7% increase

Financial structure Overview

Compared with four close competitors with similar market capitalization within its industry, while Boryung Medience'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
BRM(014100) 16.3 23.9 3.9 June 2016
ANP(121600) 10.0 24.3 2.4 June 2016
KPM TECH(042040) -6.9 - 30.0 June 2016
JC Chemical(137950) 15.1 16.1 2.4 June 2016
DNF(092070) 19.2 12.9 2.5 June 2016

■ Investor Group

Institutions and Foreigners sell, Individuals buy As of yesterday, institutions have been selling for the past six trading days and foreigners have been selling for the past four trading days. As a shareholding sum by investor group for the past four weeks, foreigners have sold 9,392 shares and institutions have sold 7,845 shares with a selling trend. However, during the same period, individuals have bought 17,237 shares with an increasing 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 Boryung Medience was 1.5%. And the daily volatility, the average range of rise and fall, during the same period is 4.85%.

The main shareholding group is Individuals As per the inquiry for shareholding by investor group, the major investor group is Individuals with 95.34% from total outstanding shares. Foreigners and institutions each hold 4.52% and 0.12%. And as recent five-day shareholding change by investor group, individuals is the major investor group with 91.08%. Foreigners hold 8.46% and institutions hold 0.45%.

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)

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