[THE INVESTOR] On Sept. 28, Dongkuk Industries (005160) was at a bullish 18.39% to 6,310 won (US$ 5.75). It had edged along with a similar price through the past month. Standard deviation, which indicates volatility of stock, records 2.9% on the same period over one month.

Compared with its close competitors within the same industry, KOSDAQ, even though the investment return of Dongkuk Industries was satisfactory among its peer group, its volatility for 1 month was considerably higher 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 its volatility was high, the return-on-risk was good with higher return. However, compared with the KOSDAQ industry, the return-on-risk is below the industrial mean, 1.0, and thus the industrial comparison performance was not so good.

Comparing industry to the market, the KOSDAQ industry including Dongkuk Industries records lower volatility and earning rate than Metal. In other words, the industry had less volatility and the returns were also smaller than the market.

While institutions have been selling Dongkuk Industries during the past 2 trading days, foreigners have been buying during the past 4 trading days. As a shareholding sum by investor group for the past 4 weeks, foreigners have bought 17,004 shares and individuals have bought 67,588 shares changing stance to buying from selling. However, during the same period, institutions have sold 84,592 shares with a selling trend.

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.