[THE INVESTOR] On Oct. 12, Avista (090370) declined 0.66% to 1,500 won (US$1.33). It had declined 8.05% through the past month. Standard deviation, which indicates volatility of stock, records 3.2% on the same period over one month.

Compared with its close competitors within the same industry, KOSPI, as the monthly volatility of Avista relatively expanded, the stock price decline to the lowest among its peer group. Over the recent month, the return-on-risk, the return on investment with consideration about risk, was -2.5%. As increasing of volatility and decline of stock price, the return-on-risk was poor. However, the return-on-risk is much better than the industrial mean, -2.6, and thus the industrial comparison performance was positive.

From Oct. 5, foreigners have been continuously selling Avista during the past five trading days. As a shareholding sum by investor group for the past four weeks, foreigners have sold 384,361 shares with maintenance of a selling position and institutions have sold 254 shares with a changing stance to selling from buying. However, during the same period, individuals have bought 384,615 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.