[STOCK WATCH] Hanwha General Insurance inches down

[THE INVESTOR]On Sept. 21, Hanwha General Insurance (000370) declined 0.75% to 6,610 won (US$ 5.91). It had declined 5.07% through the past month. Standard deviation, the volatility index for stock price, was 1.4% over the same period of time over one month.

Compared with its close competitors within the same industry, KOSPI, the monthly volatility of Hanwha General Insurance was at a low level, the earnings rate over 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 -3.6%. By tumbling of stock price, the return-on-risk is the lowest among its peer group in spite of low volatility. Moreover, compared with the KOSPI industry, the return-on-risk is below the industrial mean, -2.1, and thus the industrial comparison performance was not so good.

From Sept. 9, foreigners have been continuously selling Hanwha General Insurance. As a shareholding sum by investor group for the past four weeks, foreigners have sold 52,900 shares and institutions have sold 578,812 shares with dominant selling. However, during the same period, individuals have bought 631,712 shares with an increasing position.

By HeRo (hero@heraldcorp.com)

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