[THE INVESTOR] On Oct. 21, Korea Gas (036460) increased 3.39% to 45,750 won (US$ 40.31). It had increased 4.26% through the past month. Standard deviation, which indicates variableness, records 1.4% over the same period of time over one month.

- Compared with industrial median, the Return comparison Volatility was positive - Related stocks mixed, Electricity & Gas industry +0.69% - Target price KRW 56,300, has 24% disparate to increase compared with stock price. - Individuals and Foreigners sell, Institutions buy - Turnover Rate and Price Range both proper - Institution 31.08%, Foreigners 36.86%

Compared with its close competitors within the same industry, KOSPI, the monthly earnings rate of Korea Gas was considerably higher than that of its peer group and volatility of it within 1 month was the highest. Over the recent month, the return-on-risk, the return on investment with consideration about risk, was 3.0. 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, 0.0, and thus the industrial comparison performance was positive. 

Institutions and foreigners bought 3,309 shares and 7,663 shares. As a shareholding sum by investor group for the past 4 weeks, institutions have bought 896,237 shares with trending trade. However, during the same period, foreigners have sold 680,302 shares with maintenance of a selling position and individuals have sold 215,935 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.