■ Market Review

As of Oct. 26 12:10 P.M., LF (093050) declined 1.37% to 21,550 won (US$ 19.03). It had declined 0.23% through the past month. Standard deviation, the volatility index for stock price, was 1.3% over the same period of time over one month.

Compared with its close competitors within the same industry, KOSPI, since the monthly volatility of LF 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 -0.1%. Though the volatility was the lowest among its peer group, the return-on-risk was low as stock price decline. However, the return-on-risk is much better than the industrial mean, -3.0, and thus the industrial comparison performance was positive. Comparing industry to the market, the KOSPI industry including LF records higher volatility but lower earning rate than Textile & Wearing Apparel. 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
Hansae(105630) -10.3% -30.0% -51.6% 2.8% -3.6
KYUNGBANG(000050) 10.6% 21.6% 19.5% 2.0% 5.3
ILSHIN SPNG(003200) 3.2% -4.1% -13.2% 1.6% 2.0
HANDSOME(020000) 2.8% 2.8% 1.5% 1.4% 1.9
LF(093050) -0.2% 2.6% -16.8% 1.3% -0.1
Textile & Wearing Apparel -2.3% 0.9% -6.9% 0.9% -2.5
KOSPI -1.8% -1.9% 0.0% 0.6% -3.0

■ Earnings & Valuation

LF(093050): 2Q(Apr ~ June) of 2016 Earnings (reported at Aug. 17. 2016)
Revenue Operating Income Net Income
2Q of 2016 3,859.7 T 284.2 T 182.8 T
Previous Quarter 1.3% increase 141.6% increase 144.1% increase
YoY 2.4% decline 10.1% increase 7.5% increase

Financial structure Overview

Compared with 4 close competitors with similar market capitalization within its industry, LF's P/B ratio, a financial ratio of a company's book value, and its P/E ratio, a price-paid ratio of annual net income, are both at a relatively lower level.

P/E ratio and P/B ratio

Close Compatitors ROE PER PBR Basic Date
LF(093050) 4.5 14.2 0.6 June 2016
Hansae(105630) 23.3 10.0 2.3 June 2016
HANDSOME(020000) 7.1 17.0 1.2 June 2016
ILSHIN SPNG(003200) 2.5 18.7 0.5 June 2016
KYUNGBANG(000050) 2.8 29.9 0.9 June 2016

■ Investor Group

Institutions and Foreigners buy, Individuals sell While institutions have been selling LF during the past 2 trading days, foreigners have been buying during the past 2 trading days. As a shareholding sum by investor group for the past 4 weeks, foreigners have bought 17,268 shares and institutions have bought 94,505 shares as they turn toward a buying stance. However, during the same period, individuals have sold 111,773 shares with a decreasing position.

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.