[THE INVESTOR] On Oct. 17, VATECH (043150) declined 2.85% to 34,100 won (US$29.97). It had declined 7.24% through the past month. Standard deviation, which indicates variableness, records 2.2% over the same period of time over one month.

Compared with its close competitors within the same industry, KOSDAQ, the monthly volatility of VATECH was not so high, the earnings rate for one month was also the lowest with decline of stock price. Over the recent month, the return-on-risk, the return on investment with consideration about risk, was -3.2%. As high volatility and a bearish stock price trend, the return-on-risk was poor, compared with its peer group. Moreover, compared with the KOSDAQ industry, the return-on-risk is below the industrial mean, 2.0, and thus the industrial comparison performance was not so good.

From Oct. 6, institutions have been continuously selling VATECH during the past seven trading days. As a shareholding sum by investor group for the past four weeks, foreigners have bought 9,198 shares and individuals have bought 22,058 shares changing stance to buying from selling. However, during the same period, institutions have sold 31,256 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.