[THE INVESTOR] On Oct. 21, Samsung Heavy Industries (010140) increased 5.27% to 9,980 won (US$8.79). It had increased 7.32% through the past month. Standard deviation, the volatility index for stock price, was 2.5% on the same period of time over one month.

Compared with its close competitors within the same industry, KOSPI, the monthly earnings rate of Samsung Heavy Industries was considerably higher than that of its peer group's and its volatility within 1 month was also considerably higher than that of its peer group's. Over the recent month, the return-on-risk, the return on investment with consideration about risk, was 2.9. Though its volatility was high, the return-on-risk was good with higher return. Moreover, compared with the KOSPI industry, the return-on-risk is much better than the industrial mean, -0.1, and thus the industrial comparison performance was positive.

From Oct. 14, foreigners have been continuously selling Samsung Heavy industries during the past 5 trading days. As a shareholding sum by investor group for the past 4 weeks, foreigners have bought 1,270,612 shares. However, during the same period, institutions have sold 811,193 shares with dominant selling and individuals have sold 459,419 shares in a lessening selling trend.

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.