[THE INVESTOR] On Sept. 19 AmorePacific (090430) increased 2.91% to 389,000 won (US$347.53). It had declined 0.77% through the past month. Standard deviation, which indicates volatility of stock, records 1.6% on the same period over one month.

- Compared with industrial mean, the Return comparison fluctuation was high - Related stocks mixed, Chemicals industry -0.1% - Target price KRW 530,000, has 37% disparate to increase compared with stock price. - Institutions and Individuals sell, Foreigners buy - Turnover Rate and Price Range both proper - Institution 31.67%, Foreigners 48.8%

Compared with its close competitors within the same industry, KOSPI, AmorePacific was not only satisfactory in investment return among its peer group, but its volatility was also the lowest. Over the recent month, the return-on-risk, the return on investment with consideration about risk, was -0.4%. In spite of stock price decline, the return-on-risk remain high with the lowest volatility. Moreover, compared with the KOSPI industry, the return-on-risk is much better than the industrial mean, -2.8, and thus the industrial comparison performance was positive.

While institutions have been selling AmorePacific during the past six trading days, foreigners have been buying during the past six trading days. As a shareholding sum by investor group for the past four weeks, foreigners have bought 118,523 shares with a maintenance of shareholding. However, during the same period, institutions have sold 67,460 shares with a selling trend and individuals have sold 51,063 shares with a decreasing 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.