[THE INVESTOR] On Oct. 13, Kia Motors (000270) declined 1.55% to 41,350 won (US$36.53). It had declined 6.85% through the past month. Standard deviation, the risk index for stock price, was 1.2% on the same period of time over one month.

Compared with its close competitors within the same industry, KOSPI, since the monthly volatility of Kia Motors was the lowest, the earnings rate over one month was also relatively lower than that of its peer group. Over the recent month, the return-on-risk, the return on investment with consideration about risk, was -5.7%. Though the volatility was the lowest among its peer group, the return-on-risk was the lowest as tumbling of stock price. Moreover, compared with the KOSPI industry, the return-on-risk is below the industrial mean, -0.7, and thus the industrial comparison performance was not so good.

Yesterday, foreigners bought 42,703 shares, while institutions sold 212,318 shares. As a shareholding sum by investor group for the past four weeks, foreigners have bought 218,661 shares with a maintenance of shareholding and individuals have bought 676,507 shares changing stance to buying from selling. However, during the same period, institutions have sold 895,168 shares with a changing stance to selling from buying.

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.