[THE INVESTOR] On Oct. 6, LG Corp. (003550) fell 2.97% to 62,000 won (US$55.75). It had declined 6.31% through the past month. Standard deviation, which indicates variableness, records 1.4% over the same period of time over one month.

Compared with its close competitors within the same industry, KOSPI, the monthly volatility of LG Corp. was at a low level, the earnings rate over one month was also the lowest with decline of stock price. Over the recent month, the return-on-risk, the return on investment with consideration about risk, was -4.5%. By tumbling of stock price, the return-on-risk is the lowest among its peer group in spite of low volatility. Moreover, compared with the KOSPI industry, the return-on-risk is below the industrial mean, 2.1, and thus the industrial comparison performance was not so good.

While institutions have been selling LG Corp. during the past 4 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 399,034 shares with a maintenance of shareholding. However, during the same period, institutions have sold 199,222 shares with a selling trend and individuals have sold 199,812 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.