Qiskit sample - Portfolio optimization

I’ve recently tried to run this sample from Qiskit (Portfolio Optimization)

I was able to change RandomDataProvider to YahooDataProvider and able to run it on real stock prices.

However, there is one peculiar challenge I’m facing – I’m not sure if it is my lack of understanding. At this particular code

budget = num_assets // 2  # set budget
penalty = num_assets      # set parameter to scale the budget penalty term
qubitOp, offset = portfolio.get_operator(mu, sigma, q, budget, penalty)

No matter what budget or penalty I set this to, I always receive portfolio with about half of the total number of assets.
For example, if my total number of assets is 5, then my budget is 2 (from above code). The result always contains 2 assets [0 0 1 1 0]

If I change my budget to

budget = num_assets // 3

and my total assets are 5, then I expect to see only 1 asset in the resulting portfolio. However, I see 2

If I increase my num_assets to 10 and make

budget = num_assets

I still get a portfolio of 5 or 6 stocks (close to half of 10) and not a portfolio of 10.

Note – I’m running on qasm_simulator

Is there a gap in my understanding? What role do these variables – budget and penalty – play while building the portfolio?