[THE INVESTOR] On Oct. 4, KB Financial Group (105560) increased 1.45% to 38,400 won (US$34.65). It had declined 1.29% through the past month. Standard deviation, which indicates volatility of stock, records 1.5% on the same period over one month.

Compared with its close competitors within the same industry, KOSPI, the monthly volatility of KB Financial Group was around the average of that of its peer group, but the investment return for one month was at an absolutely low level. Over the recent month, the return-on-risk, the return on investment with consideration about risk, was -0.8%. As bearish stock price trend, the return-on-risk was poor, compared with its peer group. 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.

While institutions have been selling KB Financial Group during the past two trading days, foreigners have been buying for the same amount of time. As a shareholding sum by investor group for the past four weeks, foreigners have bought 41,491 shares and institutions have bought 342,277 shares with trending trade. However, during the same period, individuals have sold 383,768 shares with a decreasing 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.