[THE INVESTOR] On Oct. 13, Kortek (052330) increased 1.13% to 13,450 won (US$11.84). It had increased 8% through the past month. Standard deviation, which indicates risk, records 1.5% on the same period over one month.

Compared with its close competitors within the same industry, KOSDAQ, the monthly earnings rate of Kortek was considerably higher than that of its peer group, but its volatility within one month was 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 5.3. With low volatility, a satisfactory stock price lead the return-on-risk to a high level. Moreover, compared with the KOSDAQ industry, the return-on-risk is much better than the industrial mean, 0.1, and thus the industrial comparison performance was good.

Yesterday, foreigners bought 31,459 shares, while institutions sold 1,564 shares. As a shareholding sum by investor group for the past four weeks, foreigners have sold 3,705 shares and institutions have sold 63,667 shares with a selling trend. However, during the same period, individuals have bought 67,372 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.