[THE INVESTOR] On Oct. 5, SK Gas (018670) rose 2.4% to 106,500 won (US$95.64). It had increased 5.97% through the past month. Standard deviation, which indicates variableness, records 1.5% on the same period of time over one month.
Compared with its close competitors within the same industry, KOSPI, the monthly earnings rate of SK Gas was considerably higher than that of its peer group's, but its volatility within 1 month was relatively lower than that of its peer group's. Over the recent month, the return-on-risk, the return on investment with consideration about risk, was 3.9. With low volatility, a satisfactory stock price lead the return-on-risk to a high level. Moreover, compared with the KOSPI industry, the return-on-risk is much better than the industrial mean, 1.5, and thus the industrial comparison performance was positive.
From Sept. 29, foreigners have been continuously buying SK Gas during the past 3 trading days. As a shareholding sum by investor group for the past 4 weeks, foreigners have bought 56,328 shares with a maintenance of shareholding. However, during the same period, institutions have sold 18,756 shares with dominant selling and individuals have sold 37,572 shares with a decreasing position.
| Cumulated shareholdings per investor group (1Mo) | Total shareholdings per investor group | |
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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.




