[THE INVESTOR] On Oct. 4, Shinhan Financial Group (055550) increased 1.37 % to 40,700 won. It had declined 0.37% through the past month. Standard deviation, which indicates volatility of stock, records 1.3% on the same period over one month.

Compared with its close competitors within the same industry, KOSPI, since the monthly volatility of Shinhan Financial Group 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 -0.2%. 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, 1.1, and thus it is hard to say that the industrial comparison performance was positive.

Comparing industry to the market, the KOSPI industry including Shinhan Financial Group records lower volatility and earning rate than Financials. In other words, the industry had less volatility and the returns were also smaller than the market.

From Sept. 29, foreigners have been continuously buying Shinhan Financial Group during the past 2 trading days. As a shareholding sum by investor group for the past 4 weeks, foreigners have sold 25,449 shares and institutions have sold 326,670 shares with dominant selling. However, during the same period, individuals have bought 352,119 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.