[STOCK WATCH] Easy Bio rises 5%

Oct. 27, 2016 - 10:30 By thinkpool

- Among its peer group, in spite of low Volatility, Increasing Rate is high

- Most related stocks have also increased. Food·Tobacco industry +1.77%

- Target price KRW 9,250, has 53% disparate to increase compared with stock price.

- Institutions and Foreigners buy, Individuals sell

- Turnover Rate and Price Range both proper

- The main shareholding group is Individuals

■ Market Review

As of Oct. 27 10:10 A.M., Easy Bio (035810) increased 4.51%, compared with yesterday, to 6,020 won (US$5.29). It had declined 2.59% through the past month. Standard deviation, which indicates variableness, records 2.3% over the same period of time over one month.

Compared with its close competitors within the same industry, KOSDAQ, evne though the investment return of Easy Bio was satisfactory among its peer group, its volatility for one month was considerably higher than that of its peer group. Over the recent month, the return-on-risk, the return on investment with consideration about risk, was -1.1%. Though the volatility was high, the return-on-risk recorded the highest among its peer group as a satisfactory stock price. Moreover, compared with the KOSDAQ industry, the return-on-risk is much better than the industrial mean, -8.0, and thus the industrial comparison performance was good.

Comparing industry to the market, the KOSDAQ industry including Easy Bio records lower volatility and earning rate than food·tobacco. In other words, the industry was safer and the rate of decrease is smaller than that of 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)
Amicogen(092040)	-11.2%	-14.0%	-22.7%	2.6%	-4.3
EASY BIO(035810)	-2.6%	-15.5%	-2.4%	2.3%	-1.1
HARIM(136480)	-3.9%	-3.3%	-3.0%	2.0%	-1.9
MAEIL(005990)	-3.7%	-15.1%	-27.4%	1.7%	-2.1
JrDistiller(018120)	-1.7%	-6.4%	-7.7%	0.6%	-2.8

Food·Tobacco	-5.3%	-2.8%	-9.2%	1.1%	-4.8
KOSDAQ	-6.4%	-6.4%	-8.7%	0.8%	-8.0

Target price 9,250 won, has 53% disparate to increase compared with stock price.
Per analysts' expectations during the recent month, the average target price of Easy Bio is 9,250 won. The stock price is 6,020 won as of yesterday, so there is 3,230 won (53%) disparate in order to be able to increase.

■ Earnings & Valuation

EASY BIO(035810): 2Q(Apr ~ June) of 2016 Earnings (reported at Aug. 17. 2016)

	Revenue	Operating Income	Net Income
2Q of 2016	3,598.9 T	319.8 T	129.5 T
Previous Quarter	7.0% increase	100.8% increase	41.1% increase
YoY	2.3% decline	5.8% decline	3.4% decline

Financial structure Overview

Compared with four close competitors with similar market capitalization within its industry, Easy Bio's P/B ratio, a financial ratio of a company's book value, and its P/E ratio, a price-paid ratio of annual net income, are both at the lowest level.

P/E ratio and P/B ratio

Close Compatitors	ROE	PER	PBR	Basic Date
EASY BIO(035810)	5.1	13.2	0.7	June 2016
Amicogen(092040)	2.5	167.0	4.1	June 2016
JrDistiller(018120)	21.4	14.4	3.1	June 2016
MAEIL(005990)	7.1	15.3	1.1	June 2016
HARIM(136480)	-2.2	-	1.2	June 2016

■ Investor Group

Institutions and Foreigners buy, Individuals sell
As of yesterday, institutions have been buying for the past five trading days and foreigners have been buying for the past two trading days. As a shareholding sum by investor group for the past four weeks, foreigners have bought 152,803 shares and institutions have bought 51,216 shares in spite of lowered the position recently. However, during the same period, individuals have sold 204,019 shares with a decreasing 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 Easy Bio was 0.74%. And the daily volatility, the average range of rise and fall, during the same period is 3.99%.

The main shareholding group is Individuals
As per the inquiry for shareholding by investor group, the major investor group is individuals with 77.97% from total outstanding shares. Institutions and foreigners each hold 11.91% and 10.11%. And as recent five-day shareholding change by investor group, individuals is the major investor group with 74.8%. Foreigners hold 13.64% and institutions hold 11.55%. .

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)

This article is produced by the algorithm developed by the artificial intelligence developer ThinkPool in collaboration with Herald Corp

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