[STOCK WATCH] NEPES falls 2.5%

Oct. 28, 2016 - 14:38 By thinkpool

- Compared with industrial median, the Return comparison Volatility was rather positive

- Related stocks mixed, Semicon industry -0.22%

- Institutions and Individuals buy, Foreigners sell

- Turnover Rate and Price Range both proper

- The main shareholding group is Individuals

■ Market Review

On Oct. 28 01:55 P.M., NEPES (033640) declined 2.57% to 7,210 won (US$ 6.3). It had declined 8.96% through the past month. Standard deviation, the variableness index, was 2.4% on the same period over one month.

Compared with its close competitors within the same industry, KOSDAQ, since the monthly volatility of NEPES was at a low level, the earnings rate over one month was also relatively lower than that of its peer group. Over the recent month, the return-on-risk, the return on investment with consideration about risk, was -3.7%. As bearish stock price trend, the return-on-risk was poor, compared with its peer group. However, the return-on-risk is much better than the industrial mean, -7.8, and thus the industrial comparison performance was positive.

Comparing industry to the market, the KOSDAQ industry including NEPES records lower volatility and earning rate than Semicon. 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)
LIS(138690)	0.8%	-25.7%	-45.7%	3.6%	0.2
LOT Vacuum(083310)	-12.9%	-17.9%	-6.1%	2.9%	-4.4
S&S TECH(101490)	-4.1%	-18.9%	-5.2%	2.5%	-1.6
NEPES(033640)	-9.0%	-13.9%	-1.5%	2.4%	-3.7
iA(038880)	-7.7%	-6.1%	-16.4%	2.4%	-3.2

Semicon	-3.6%	-6.2%	-8.3%	1.2%	-3.0
KOSDAQ	-6.3%	-5.9%	-8.8%	0.8%	-7.8

■ Earnings & Valuation

NEPES(033640): 2Q(Apr ~ June) of 2016 Earnings (reported at Aug. 17. 2016)

	Revenue	Operating Income	Net Income
2Q of 2016	625.6 T	31.5 T	151.6 T
Previous Quarter	2.7% increase	114.6% increase	317.6% increase
YoY	10.8% decline	215.4% increase	turn to profit

Financial structure Overview

Compared with 4 close competitors with similar market capitalization within its industry, while NEPES's P/E ratio, a price-paid ratio of annual net income, is in the highest level, its P/B ratio, a financial ratio of a company's book value, is at the lowest level.

P/E ratio and P/B ratio

Close Compatitors	ROE	PER	PBR	Basic Date
NEPES(033640)	-9.2	-	1.4	June 2016
iA(038880)	3.9	105.9	4.2	June 2016
LIS(138690)	28.6	9.5	2.7	June 2016
S&S TECH(101490)	10.8	19.2	2.1	June 2016
LOT Vacuum(083310)	1.9	113.9	2.2	June 2016

■ Investor Group

Institutions and Individuals buy, Foreigners sell
Yesterday, foreigners bought 13 shares, while institutions sold 18 shares. As a shareholding sum by investor group for the past 4 weeks, institutions have bought 11,504 shares as they turn toward a buying stance and individuals have bought 14,175 shares changing stance to buying from selling. However, during the same period, foreigners have sold 25,679 shares .

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 NEPES was 0.44%. And the daily volatility, the average range of rise and fall, during the same period is 2.83%.

The main shareholding group is Individuals
As per the inquiry for shareholding by investor group, the major investor group is individuals with 86.11% from total outstanding shares. Foreigners and institutions each hold 12.94% and 0.93%. And as recent 5-day shareholding change by investor group, individuals is the major investor group with 87.95%. Foreigners hold 11.24% and institutions hold 0.8%.

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)

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

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