SEOUL: Shares of Korea Electric Power Corporation (NYSE:KEP) rose by 2.03% in the past week and 8.09% for the last 4 weeks. In the past week, the shares has outperformed the S&P 500 by 2.04% and the outperformance increases to 9% for the last 4 weeks.
For this week, the average consensus of the company shares are rated as a Strong Buy. Korea Electric Power Corp. is up 5.55% in the last 3-month period. Year-to-Date the stock performance stands at 9.04%. The company shares have rallied 13.07% in the past 52 Weeks.
On October 13, 2014 The shares registered one year high of $23.12 and one year low was seen on January 16, 2015 at $18.09. The 50-day moving average is $20.31 and the 200 day moving average is recorded at $20.29. S&P 500 has rallied 5.03% during the last 52-weeks.
Korea Electric Power Corporation (NYSE:KEP) witnessed a volatile trading activity on Friday and eventually ended flat at 0% or 0 points without letting the bulls or bears take much advantage. The trading began at $21.08 and reached the intraday high at $21.15. The bulls started the profit booking and pushed the shares to intraday low of $21.02. The trading session was marked by a volume range of 339,298 shares exchanging hands. The 52-week high of the shares is $23.12 and the 52-week low is $18.09. The market cap of the company stands at $27,104 million and there are 1,283,928,000 shares in public circulation.
Korea Electric Power Corporation is a Korea-based company engaged in the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity and development of electric power resources. The Company and its subsidiaries are mainly engaged in four business segments: electricity sales, nuclear power, thermal power and other business.
Its electricity sales segment mainly engages in the sale of electricity, development of power resources and others. Its nuclear power segment engages in the nuclear and pumping-up power generation. Its thermal power segment engages in the bituminous, anthracite, liquefied natural gas and other power generation.
Its other business segment engages in the design and maintenance of power facilities, supply of nuclear fuels and provision of power information technology (IT) services, among others.