[THE INVESTOR] On Sept. 30, KEPCO (015760) declined 2.88% to 54,000 won (US$48.90). It had declined 6.37% through the past month. Standard deviation, which indicates risk, records 1.3% on the same period over one month.

- On its close competitors, Earning Rate is low in spite of high Volatility - Most of related stocks also decline. Electricity & Gas industry -1.75% - Target price KRW 76,000, has 39% disparate to increase compared with stock price. - Individuals and Foreigners buy, Institutions sell - Turnover Rate and Price Range both proper - Institution 28.96%, Foreigners 46.26%

Compared with its close competitors within the same industry, KOSPI, the monthly volatility of KEPCO was not so high, the earnings rate for one month was also the lowest with decline of stock price. Over the recent month, the return-on-risk, the return on investment with consideration about risk, was -4.8%. As high volatility and a 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, 1.3, and thus the industrial comparison performance was not so good.

As of yesterday, institutions have been selling for the past ten trading days and foreigners have been selling for the past two trading days. As a shareholding sum by investor group for the past four weeks, foreigners have bought 2,176,625 shares with a maintenance of shareholding and individuals have bought 1,089,942 shares with an increasing position. However, during the same period, institutions have sold 3,266,567 shares with a 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.