■ Market Review

As of Oct. 26 11:55 A.M., Sungshin Cement (004980) declined 2.48% to 7,860 won (US$ ). It had declined 11.59% through the past month. Standard deviation, the risk index for stock price, was 2.8% on the same period of time over one month.

Compared with its close competitors within the same industry, KOSPI, as the monthly volatility of Sungshin Cement was relatively expand, the stock price was stay at a low level with decline. Over the recent month, the return-on-risk, the return on investment with consideration about risk, was -4.1%. As high volatility and a bearish stock price trend, the return-on-risk recorded the worst value among its peer group. Moreover, compared with the KOSPI industry, the return-on-risk is below the industrial mean, -2.8, and thus the industrial comparison performance was not so good.

Comparing industry to the market, the KOSPI industry including Sungshin Cement records lower volatility and earning rate than Non-metallic Mineral Products. 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
DAELIM B&(005750) -8.4% -17.8% -36.2% 2.9% -2.9
SUNGSHIN CEMENT(004980) -11.6% -27.2% -33.7% 2.8% -4.1
SSYMaterials(047400) 79.1% 54.8% 71.2% 2.7% 29.3
ASIA CEMENT(183190) -1.3% -4.6% -22.6% 1.6% -0.8
HANKUK GLAS(002000) -0.6% -1.6% -6.4% 1.2% -0.4
Non-metallic Mineral Products 0.3% -3.4% -11.9% 1.1% 0.2
KOSPI -1.7% -1.9% 0.0% 0.6% -2.8

■ Earnings & Valuation

SUNGSHIN CEMENT(004980): 2Q(Apr ~ June) of 2016 Earnings (reported at Aug. 17. 2016)
Revenue Operating Income Net Income
2Q of 2016 1,973.2 T 268.5 T 386.2 T
Previous Quarter 42.4% increase turn to profit turn to profit
YoY 4.8% increase 1.4% decline 91.4% increase

Financial structure Overview

Compared with 4 close competitors with similar market capitalization within its industry, while SUNGSHIN CEMENT's P/E ratio, a price-paid ratio of annual net income, is at the highest level, its P/B ratio, a financial ratio of a company's book value, is a proper value.

P/E ratio and P/B ratio

Close Compatitors ROE PER PBR Basic Date
SUNGSHIN CEMENT(004980) -3.8 - 0.6 June 2016
HANKUK GLAS(002000) 1.8 28.0 0.5 June 2016
SSYMaterials(047400) 6.1 29.9 1.8 June 2016
DAELIM B&(005750) 5.8 16.7 1.0 June 2016
ASIA CEMENT(183190) 5.7 6.5 0.4 June 2016

■ Investor Group

Individuals and Foreigners buy, Institutions sell Institutions have been selling for the past 5 trading days and foreigners have been selling for the past 2 trading days. As a shareholding sum by investor group for the past 4 weeks, foreigners have bought 82,132 shares and individuals have bought 156,509 shares with an increasing position. However, during the same period, institutions have sold 238,641 shares with a selling trend.

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.