[THE INVESTOR] On Oct. 20, Maeil (005990) rose 2.69% to 34,300 won (US$30.57). It had declined 3.1% through the past month. Standard deviation, the volatility index for stock price, was 1.7% on the same period of time over one month.

Compared with its close competitors within the same industry, KOSDAQ, even though the monthly earnings rate of Maeil stayed negative, its volatility for 1 month was at the lowest level. Over the recent month, the return-on-risk, the return on investment with consideration about risk, was -1.8%. Though the volatility was the lowest among its peer group, the return-on-risk was low as stock price decline. However, the return-on-risk is much better than the industrial mean, -3.3, and thus the industrial comparison performance was positive.

As of Oct. 19, institutions have been selling for the past 9 trading days and foreigners have been selling for the past 3 trading days. As a shareholding sum by investor group for the past 4 weeks, foreigners have sold 20,078 shares with maintenance of a selling position and institutions have sold 158,726 shares with a selling trend. However, during the same period, individuals have bought 178,804 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.