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Glossary

Price & trading

  1. No tradeZero volume that day. Shown as “no trade”, not as a 0% move.
  2. 52-week closing highHighest close in the daily window held. Hidden when the window is short.
  3. Trading valueTotal amount traded that day (KRW). A different unit from volume.
  4. ChangeMove of this close against the previous session close.
  5. Open, high, low, closeThe four prices of one session: first, highest, lowest and last.
  6. VolumeShares traded that day. Distinct from trading value in KRW.
  7. 20-session close variationStandard deviation of daily moves over 20 sessions. Not annualised.

Investor flow

  1. Foreign net flowNet amount from foreign investors, summed over a set window.
  2. Institutional net flowNet amount from institutional investors over the window.
  3. Execution strengthInbound execution volume ÷ outbound, ×100.

Financials & valuation

  1. Market capitalisationClose × shares outstanding. One measure of company size.
  2. PERMarket cap ÷ annual net income. Not computed for losses or incomplete years.
  3. PBRMarket cap ÷ equity. Not computed for preferred shares or negative equity.
  4. Shares outstandingListed share count. The multiplier behind market cap.
  5. Quarterly operating incomeQ4 is derived as the annual figure minus three quarters.
  6. Operating marginOperating income ÷ revenue. Changes are written in percentage points.
  7. Revenue growthChange in revenue against the same period a year earlier.
  8. DisclosureA filing on Korea’s DART system. Dated by filing receipt.

Basis & coverage

  1. As-of dateThe official session a fact belongs to. Not the file update time.
  2. Cap-weightedAggregated by market-cap share, the same basis as the KOSPI/KOSDAQ indices.
  3. Advance ratioRising names divided by the names covered in the sector — a distribution.
  4. CoverageHow far each data layer reaches. Deep data covers only some names.
  5. EOD (daily bar)Values fixed after the close. Not a live intraday quote.
  6. Display sectorA Sentinel display layer on top of the KSIC standard classification.
  7. Daily bar sampleDaily bars the figures on this screen were computed from. Older bars the chart loads are not counted.
  8. Preferred stockDividend priority instead of voting rights. Some ratios are not computed.