[STOCK WATCH] Kolon Corp rises 1%

Oct. 27, 2016 - 10:19 By thinkpool

- The Return On Risk, -3.7, is in the lower class, it is higher than the industrial median

- Related stocks mixed, Services industry +0.28%

- Institutions and Foreigners sell, Individuals buy

- Turnover Rate and Price Range both proper

- Participation of Institutions is active, 17.74%

■ Market Review

As of Oct. 27 09:55 A.M., Kolon Corp. (002020) increased 1.39%, compared with yesterday, to 51,200 won (US$45.01). It had declined 9.86% through the past month. Standard deviation, which indicates variableness, records 2.6% over the same period of time over one month.

Compared with its close competitors within the same industry, KOSPI, as the monthly volatility of Kolon Corp. remained at the highest level, the investment return for one month was negative. Over the recent month, the return-on-risk, the return on investment with consideration about risk, was -3.7%. As increasing of volatility and decline of stock price, the return-on-risk was poor. Moreover, compared with the KOSPI industry, the return-on-risk is below the industrial mean, -3.6, and thus it is hard to say that the industrial comparison performance was positive.

Comparing industry to the market, the KOSPI industry including Kolon Corp. 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)
Close Competitors	1 Mo	3 Mo	6 Mo	STD (1Mo)	Return on Risk (1Mo)
KOLON CORP(002020)	-9.9%	-25.3%	-12.5%	2.6%	-3.7
SF(031440)	-3.9%	-12.9%	21.6%	2.2%	-1.7
CJ HelloVision(037560)	-6.0%	-9.6%	-32.8%	2.2%	-2.7
NICE(034310)	-7.0%	-11.2%	-19.7%	2.0%	-3.4
DAEWOONG(003090)	-11.6%	-26.9%	-20.9%	1.8%	-6.4

Services	-4.9%	-2.7%	-2.1%	0.8%	-6.1
KOSPI	-2.2%	-1.2%	0.2%	0.6%	-3.6

■ Earnings & Valuation

KOLON CORP(002020): 2Q(Apr ~ June) of 2016 Earnings (reported at Aug. 17. 2016)

	Revenue	Operating Income	Net Income
2Q of 2016	9,956.2 T	408.3 T	157.5 T
Previous Quarter	17.6% increase	0.9% increase	41.2% decline
YoY	0.8% decline	82.0% increase	67.8% decline

Financial structure Overview

Compared with four close competitors with similar market capitalization within its industry, while Kolon Corp.'s P/E ratio, a price-paid ratio of annual net income, is at the highest level, its P/B ratio, a financial ratio of a company's book value, is a proper value.

P/E ratio and P/B ratio

Close Compatitors	ROE	PER	PBR	Basic Date
KOLON CORP(002020)	-9.4	-	0.7	June 2016
CJ HelloVision(037560)	6.0	11.4	0.7	June 2016
SF(031440)	2.1	94.4	2.0	June 2016
NICE(034310)	11.5	7.5	0.9	June 2016
DAEWOONG(003090)	2.2	30.2	0.7	June 2016

■ Investor Group

Institutions and Foreigners sell, Individuals buy
From Oct. 25, foreigners have been continuously selling Kolon Corp. during the past two trading days. As a shareholding sum by investor group for the past four weeks, foreigners have sold 23,444 shares with maintenance of a selling position and institutions have sold 79,808 shares with a selling trend. However, during the same period, individuals have bought 103,252 shares with an increasing position.

Turnover Rate and Price Range both proper
Regarding the statistics for the past month on trade volume as the total outstanding shares, the daily turnover rate of Kolon Corp. was 0.36%. And the daily volatility, the average range of rise and fall, during the same period is 3.34%.

Participation of Institutions is active, 17.74%
As per the inquiry for shareholding by investor group, the major investor group is individuals with 70.29% from total outstanding shares. Institutions and foreigners each hold 17.74% and 11.95%. And as recent five-day shareholding change by investor group, individuals is the major investor group with 64.13%. Institutions hold 24.22% and foreigners hold 11.63%.

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)

By HeRo (hero@heraldcorp.com)

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