[THE INVESTOR] On Sept. 27, POSCO (005490) increased 2.9% to 230,500 won (US$209.85). It had increased 4.02% through the past month. Standard deviation, which indicates variableness, records 2.2% over the same period of time over one month.
Compared with its close competitors within the same industry, KOSPI, the monthly earnings rate of POSCO was the highest and its volatility over one month was also the highest. Over the recent month, the return-on-risk, the return on investment with consideration about risk, was 1.8. Though its volatility was the highest among its peer group, an incredible increase of stock price lead to good return-on-risk. Moreover, compared with the KOSPI industry, the return-on-risk is much better than the industrial mean, 1.3, and thus the industrial comparison performance was good.
While institutions have been buying POSCO during the past two trading days, foreigners have been selling during the past four trading days. As a shareholding sum by investor group for the past four weeks, institutions have bought 378,264 shares with trending trade. However, during the same period, foreigners have sold 191,137 shares and individuals have sold 187,127 shares in a lessening selling trend.
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By HeRo (hero@heraldcorp.com)
This article is produced by the algorithm developed by the artificial intelligence developer ThinkPool in collaboration with Herald Corp.
