[THE INVESTOR] On Oct. 13, KEPCO KPS (051600) declined 0.88% to 56,300 (US$ 49.56). It had declined 11.59% through the past month. Standard deviation, which indicates volatility of stock, records 1.8% on the same period over one month.

Compared with its close competitors within the same industry, KOSPI, even though the monthly volatility of KEPCO KPS was the lowest, the earnings rate over one month was also the lowest with a decline of stock price. Over the recent month, the return-on-risk, the return on investment with consideration about risk, was -6.4%. Though the volatility was the lowest among its peer group, the return-on-risk was the lowest as tumbling of stock price. Moreover the KOSPI industry, the return-on-risk is below the industrial mean, -3.1, and thus the industrial comparison performance was not so good.

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

While institutions have been buying KEPCO KPS during the past 3 trading day, foreigners have been selling during the past 2 trading day. As a shareholding sum by investor group for the past 4 weeks, foreigners have sold 149,007 shares with maintenance of a selling position and institutions have sold 200,106 shares with a selling trend. However, during the same period, individuals have bought 349,113 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.