[THE INVESTOR] On Oct. 12, Shinsegae (004170) increased 1.88% to 190,000 won (US$ 169.13). It had declined 4.24% through the past month. Standard deviation, the volatility index for stock price, was 1.7% over the same period of time over one month.

Compared with its close competitors within the same industry, KOSPI, as the monthly volatility of Shinsegae had relatively expanded, the investment return for 1 month was negative. Over the recent month, the return-on-risk, the return on investment with consideration about risk, was -2.4%. As high volatility and a bearish stock price trend, the return-on-risk recorded a low value. However, the return-on-risk is much better than the industrial mean, -2.5, and thus the industrial comparison performance was positive.

Comparing industry to the market, the KOSPI industry including Shinsegae records lower volatility and earning rate than Distribution. In other words, the industry was safer and the rate of decrease is smaller than that of the market.

From Oct. 07, institutions have been continuously buying Shinsegae during the past 3 trading days. As a shareholding sum by investor group for the past 4 weeks, foreigners have sold 65,665 shares with maintenance of a selling position and institutions have sold 51,420 shares with a selling trend. However, during the same period, individuals have bought 117,085 shares with an increasing 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.