[THE INVESTOR] On Oct. 10, Korea Gas (036460) increased 1.46% to 45,200 won (US$ 40.78). It had increased 8.45% through the past month. Standard deviation, which indicates risk, records 1.4% over the same period over one month.

Compared with its close competitors within the same industry, KOSPI, the monthly earnings rate of Korea Gas was the highest and its volatility over one month was also the highest. Over the recent month, the return-on-risk, the return on investment with consideration about risk, was 6.0. Though its volatility was the highest among its peer group, an incredible increase of stock price lead to good return-on-risk. Moreover, compared with the KOSPI industry, the return-on-risk is much better than the industrial mean, -0.5, and thus the industrial comparison performance was good.

Comparing industry to the market, the KOSPI industry including Korea Gas records higher volatility but lower earning rate than Electricity & Gas. Even though the earning rate of the industry is negative, the industry was more satisfactory than the market.

While institutions have been buying Korea Gas during the past 19 trading days, foreigners have been selling during the past 16 trading days. As a shareholding sum by investor group for the past 4 weeks, institutions have bought 1,071,803 shares with trending trade. However, during the same period, foreigners have sold 923,040 shares with maintenance of a selling position and individuals have sold 148,763 shares as they turn toward a selling stance.

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.