■ Market Review

On Oct. 26, Youngone Holdings (009970) declined 1.73% to 56,900 won (US$50.35). It had declined 4.37% through the past month. Standard deviation, the variableness index, was 1.6% on the same period over one month.

Compared with its close competitors within the same industry, KOSPI, since the monthly volatility of Youngone Holdings was at a low level, 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 -2.7%. As bearish stock price trend, the return-on-risk was poor, compared with its peer group. Moreover, compared with the KOSPI industry, the return-on-risk is below the industrial mean, -2.3, and thus it is hard to say that the industrial comparison performance was positive. .

Comparing industry to the market, the KOSPI industry including Youngone Holdings records higher volatility but lower earning rate than services. Even though the earning rate of the industry is negative, the industry was more satisfactory than the market.

Close Competitors Earning rate (%) STD (1Mo) Return on Risk (1Mo)
1 Mo 3 Mo 6 Mo
JW HOLDINGS(096760) -18.8% 14.9% 43.7% 3.4% -5.5
AK Holdings(006840) -0.8% -12.0% -3.1% 2.3% -0.3
KT Skylife(053210) 11.9% 0.3% 5.8% 1.9% 6.2
Youngone Holdings(009970) -4.4% -10.1% -11.9% 1.6% -2.7
DAEKYO(019680) -1.9% 0.9% -13.3% 1.1% -1.7
Services -4.6% -2.4% -2.5% 0.8% -5.7
KOSPI -1.4% -1.5% 0.3% 0.6% -2.3

Target price 77,000 won, has 35% disparate to increase compared with stock price. Per analysts' expectations during the recent month, the average target price of Youngone Holdings is 77,000 won. The stock price is 56,900 won as of yesterday, so there is 20,100 won (35%) disparate in order to be able to increase.

■ Earnings & Valuation

Youngone Holdings(009970): 2Q(Apr ~ June) of 2016 Earnings (reported at Aug. 17. 2016)
Revenue Operating Income Net Income
2Q of 2016 6,249.3 T 702.0 T 519.0 T
Previous Quarter 25.4% increase 59.6% increase 49.9% increase
YoY 19.3% increase 8.5% increase 7.5% increase

Financial structure Overview

Compared with four close competitors with similar market capitalization within its industry, Youngone Holdings's P/B ratio, a financial ratio of a company's book value, and its P/E ratio, a price-paid ratio of annual net income, are both at the lowest level.

P/E ratio and P/B ratio

Close Compatitors ROE PER PBR Basic Date
Youngone Holdings(009970) 10.2 4.5 0.5 June 2016
JW HOLDINGS(096760) -4.2 - 3.1 June 2016
KT Skylife(053210) 13.6 12.1 1.6 June 2016
AK Holdings(006840) -0.8 - 0.8 June 2016
DAEKYO(019680) 5.4 21.2 1.1 June 2016

■ Investor Group

Institutions and Individuals sell, Foreigners buy From Oct. 19, Foreigners have been continuously buying Youngone Holdings during the past five trading days. As a shareholding sum by investor group for the past four weeks, foreigners have bought 27,120 shares with a maintenance of shareholding. However, during the same period, institutions have sold 24,122 shares with a selling trend and Individuals have sold 2,998 shares in a lessening selling trend.

Turnover Rate and Price Range both low Regarding the statistics for the past month on trade volume as the total outstanding shares, the daily turnover rate of Youngone Holdings was 0.03%. If the turnover rate is quite low like this, it may be hard to trade due to its low degree of liquidity. Thus, one must pay attention in order to trade Youngone Holdings. Moreover, it has low volatility, caused by unpopularity in the market.

Institution 38.04%, Foreigners 31.5% As per the inquiry for shareholding by investor group, the major investor group is institutions with 38.04% from total outstanding shares. Foreigners and individuals each hold 31.5% and 30.44%. And as recent five-day shareholding change by investor group, institutions is the major investor group with 41.03%. Foreigners hold 32.07% and individuals hold 26.88%.

Cumulated shareholdings per investor group (1Mo) Total shareholdings per investor group

* Other Investor groups, included as "other corporations", are considered as "Individuals".

By HeRo (hero@heraldcorp.com)

This article is produced by the algorithm developed by the artificial intelligence developer ThinkPool in collaboration with Herald Corp.