ANALYSIS: KASE listed shares liquidity on secondary market in October and ten months of 2008

07.11.08 16:28
/IRBIS, Dinara Mukasheva, November 7, 08/ - IRBIS information agency of financial markets (Almaty) has rated liquidity of listing companies' shares traded on Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) in October of 2008. The first 10 positions of the rating are given below. In October these shares constituted for 58.7 % of turnover of corresponding sector of exchange market. Over the specified period, deals in shares of 48 names have been made on KASE open secondary market. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Liquidity indicator calculation base (Kl): Posi Posi Liquidity ------------------------------------------ tion in tion in indi- volume number number of Oct. Sept. Share cator of deals, number of KASE successful 2008 2008 symbol (Kl) m. KZT of deals members days ------- ------- ------- --------- ----------- --------- -------- ----------- 1 1 RDGZ 3.00 3,098.8 432 71 22 2 2 HSBK 1.92 217.4 250 57 22 3 8 KKGB 1.76 439.6 222 48 22 4 5 CCBN 1.572 595.9 306 19 22 5 3 BTAS 1.569 2,425.3 108 32 21 6 6 GB_KZMS 1.41 1,578.5 104 31 21 7 4 KZTK 1.30 962.4 122 27 21 8 7 GB_ENRC 1.02 57.6 78 30 18 9 10 KZTKp 0.97 261.1 74 25 18 10 16 ASBN 0.68 50.9 40 15 16 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASBN replaced TEBN (9th position in September) and became a newcomer of the "liquid ten". ASBN grew in liquidity rating on mass purchase of mentioned securities by one of contractors (91.1 % of the total volume of deals with ASBN). It is likely to be connected with known events on LSE, when Seimar Alliance Financial Corporation, the major shareholder of Alliance Bank JSC repurchased GDR at $5 m. The disseminated message of SAFC said decreasing of GDR quotations of Alliance Bank on LSE is a consequence of speculative activity of foreign investors and doesn't reflect real financial status of the bank. The table below contains the first 10 positions of the rating by results of share trades on KASE in ten months of 2008. Stake of these "ten" in total turnover of shares market of KASE made 59.7 %. During this period 74 stocks were involved in deals on KASE open secondary market. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Liquidity indicator calculation base (Kl): ------------------------------------------ volume number number of Share of deals, number of KASE effective Position symbol Kl m. KZT of deals members days -------- ------- ---- ----------- ---------- -------- ---------- 1 RDGZ 3.00 69,774.9 3,361 143 200 2 CCBN 2.10 69,218.1 1,653 87 200 3 KKGB 1.89 8,431.5 1,785 125 171 4 BTAS 1.76 32,205.6 1,313 94 191 5 HSBK 1.51 6,358.4 1,005 101 182 6 KZTK 1.34 19,791.3 949 74 160 7 GB_KZMS 0.94 2,170.7 424 63 144 8 KZTKp 0.74 870.6 361 45 126 9 GB_ENRC 0.72 316.1 308 52 103 10 KKGBp 0.70 2,278.1 302 46 109 ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 and 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. [2008-11-07]