[THE INVESTOR] On Sept. 26, NHN Entertainment (181710) increased 1.70% to 59,700 won (US$ 54). It had declined 6.29% through the past month. Standard deviation, which indicates volatility of stock, records 1.7% on the same period over one month.

Compared with its close competitors within the same industry, KOSPI, since the monthly volatility of NHN Entertainment 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 -3.6%. Though the volatility was the lowest among its peer group, the return-on-risk was low as stock price decline. Moreover, compared with the KOSPI industry, the return-on-risk is below the industrial mean, 0.0, and thus it is hard to say that the industrial comparison performance was positive.

Comparing industry to the market, the KOSPI industry including NHN Entertainment records lower volatility and earning rate than Services. However, the monthly rate of increase of the industry is only edged along.

From Sept. 9, foreigners have been continuously selling NHN Entertainment during the past 8 trading days. As a shareholding sum by investor group for the past 4 weeks, foreigners have sold 142,163 shares with maintenance of a selling position and institutions have sold 272,268 shares with a selling trend. However, during the same period, individuals have bought 414,431 shares with an increasing position.

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.