[THE INVESTOR] On Oct. 6, KB Capital (021960) declined 2% to 25,650 won (US$ 23.06). It had declined 3.26% through the past month. Standard deviation, the risk index for stock price, was 1.8% on the same period of time over one month.

Compared with its close competitors within the same industry, KOSPI, as the monthly volatility of KB Capital relatively expanded, the stock price decline to the lowest among the its peer group. Over the recent month, the return-on-risk, the return on investment with consideration about risk, was -1.8%. Since the risk increased as volatility grew, the return-on-risk was the worst. 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.

Comparing industry to the market, the KOSPI industry including KB Capital records lower volatility but a higher earning rate than Financials. In other words, the industry had been safer with high returns.

While institutions have been selling KB Capital during the past 3 trading days, foreigners have been buying during the past 2 trading days. As a shareholding sum by investor group for the past 4 weeks, foreigners have bought 30,696 shares with a maintenance of shareholding and individuals have bought 49,481 shares with an increasing position. However, during the same period, institutions have sold 80,177 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.