[THE INVESTOR] On Sept. 26, SK Gas (018670) declined 2.84% to 102,500 won (US$ 92.71). It had increased 4.59% through the past month. Standard deviation, which indicates variableness, records 1.5% over the same period of time over one month.

- Among its peer group, in spite of low Volatility, Increasing Rate is high - Most of related stocks also decline. Distribution industry -0.86% - Institutions and Individuals sell, Foreigners buy - Turnover Rate and Price Range both proper - Institution 33.57%, Foreigners 24.33%

Compared with its close competitors within the same industry, KOSPI, the monthly earnings rate of SK Gas was the highest, while its volatility within 1 month was at a proper rate. Over the recent month, the return-on-risk, the return on investment with consideration about risk, was 3.0. Even though the volatility was not so low, the high return lead the return-on-risk to a high level. 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 good.

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

From Aug. 17, foreigners have been continuously buying SK Gas during the past 25 trading days. As a shareholding sum by investor group for the past 4 weeks, foreigners have bought 83,254 shares with a maintenance of shareholding. However, during the same period, institutions have sold 22,237 shares with a selling trend and individuals have sold 61,017 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.