[THE INVESTOR] On Oct. 7, LG Household & Healthcare (051900) declined 5.41% to 891,000 won (US$ 798.74). It had declined 8.64% through the past month. Standard deviation, which indicates risk, records 2.1% on the same period over one month.
Compared with its close competitors within the same industry, KOSPI, not only the monthly earnings rate of LG Household & Healthcare had edged along, but its volatility for 1 month was also the highest among its peer group. Over the recent month, the return-on-risk, the return on investment with consideration about risk, was -4.1%. Though the volatility was the highest among its peer group, the return-on-risk remain around the average of its peer group. However, compared with the KOSPI industry, the return-on-risk is below the industrial mean, 1.8, and thus it is hard to say that the industrial comparison performance was positive.
Comparing industry to the market, the KOSPI industry including LG Household & Healthcare records lower volatility but a higher earning rate than Chemicals. In other words, the industry had been safer with high returns.
From Sept. 27, institutions have been continuously selling LG Household & Healthcare during the past 7 trading days. As a shareholding sum by investor group for the past 4 weeks, foreigners have bought 110,368 shares with a maintenance of shareholding and individuals have bought 39,253 shares changing stance to buying from selling. However, during the same period, institutions have sold 149,621 shares with a selling trend.
| 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.




