ANALYSIS: Liquidity rating of KASE listing shares on the secondary market in August and initial eight months of 2008

11.09.08 09:43
/IRBIS, Dinara Mukasheva, September 11, 08/ - IRBIS information agency of financial markets (Almaty) has rated liquidity of listing companies' shares traded on Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) in August of 2008. The first 10 positions of the rating are given below. In August these shares possessed 85.6 % of turnover of corresponding sector of exchange market. Over the specified period, deals with shares of 39 names have been made on KASE open secondary market. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Liquidity indicator calculation base (Kl): ------------------------------------------ Liquidity ----------- --------- -------- ----------- Posi Posi tion in tion in indi- volume number number of August July Share cator of deals, number of KASE successful 2008 2008 symbol (Kl) m. KZT of deals members days ------- ------- ------- --------- ----------- --------- -------- ----------- 1 4 CCBN 2.54 60,317.8 188 26 20 2 1 RDGZ 2.25 887.8 158 48 16 3 3 HSBK 1.68 595.5 103 30 20 4 2 BTAS 1.48 2,096.9 96 24 18 5 10 KZTK 0.93 338.3 46 17 13 6 6 KKGB 0.90 129.2 41 16 14 7 8 KZTKp 0.89 44.9 38 15 15 8 5 GB_ENRC 0.71 14.4 30 13 11 9 11 GB_KZMS 0.61 26.8 20 10 12 10 7 TEBN 0.60 113.3 31 4 14 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- GB_KZMS having replaced MREK (9th position in July) have become the newcomers of the "liquid ten". The table below contains the first 10 positions of the rating, made by the results of shares trades on KASE for the first eight months of 2008. Stake of these "ten" in total turnover of shares market of KASE made 62.8 %. During this period shares of 70 instrument names were involved in deals of KASE open secondary market. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Liquidity indicator calculation base (Kl): ------------------------------------------ ----------- ---------- -------- ---------- Share volume number number of Position symbol Kl of deals, number of KASE effective m. KZT of deals members days -------- ------- ----- ----------- ---------- -------- ---------- 1 RDGZ 2.98 65,570.3 2,714 123 157 2 CCBN 2.12 67,831.3 1,215 83 159 3 KKGB 1.94 7,868.0 1,505 113 130 4 BTAS 1.80 27,201.5 1,081 89 151 5 HSBK 1.308 4,166.5 603 76 139 6 KZTK 1.306 17,323.6 690 68 118 7 GB_KZMS 0.79 501.8 250 46 103 8 KKGBp 0.75 2,206.7 257 45 88 9 KZTKp 0.71 579.9 257 39 93 10 TEBN 0.63 13,152.0 163 23 91 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Notes The rating is based on liquidity indicator (Kl), which is calculated for each share on a specified period. Positions are rated by sorting shares in descending order of Kl (the higher Kl, the higher liquidity is and the lower position in the rating). The first position in the rating corresponds to the highest Kl value. Description of liquidity indicator calculation methods is available in the proper section of the document, published at: http://www.kase.kz/mix/rsp.pdf in Russian and at http://www.kase.kz/eng/mix/rsp.pdf in English. IRBIS agency draws attention to the fact that while calculating the liquidity indicator, only data on deals made in KASE secondary market sector (including special trading floor of the regional financial center of Almaty) by one of open trade methods are taken into account. "p" letter in the end of the symbol means preferred shares, other letters - common shares. Full list of symbols of issuers and securities traded on KASE is available at http://www.kase.kz/instruments/nzb_code.htm The data aforementioned is not an offer or recommendation to sell or buy shares on KASE. Using the data while making investment decisions does not rest the responsibility for possible losses resultant from such decision on the IRBIS agency. [2008-09-11]