/KASE, November 1, 2018/ – From November 1, 2018, Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) Committee on Indices and Securities Valuation by its decision of November 1, 2018 defined new parameters for shares included in the KASE Index representative list such as portions of shares in free float and restrictive coefficients.

The table below shows new share parameters and those effective until November 1 that has an impact on the value of KASE Index.

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                       Effective from November 1, 2018               Effective until November 1, 2018
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        number of outstanding    free      restrictive number of outstanding    free      restrictive
Ticker                 shares   float coefficient (Ri)                shares   float coefficient (Ri)
                              (Fi), %                                        (Fi), %                 
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CCBN              162,456,800    33.0        1.0000000           162,456,800    26.6        1.0000000
GB_KZMS           458,379,033    51.8        0.0340440           458,379,033    57.0        0.0282341
HSBK           11,754,075,497    25.5        0.0615865        10,995,404,574    26.5        0.0954480
KCEL              200,000,000    17.9        0.3211260           200,000,000    15.6        0.5525299
KEGC              259,998,610    10.0        0.4821023           259,998,610    10.0        0.7515940
KZTK               10,707,323    23.0        0.2704704            10,707,323    23.0        0.3438827
KZTO              384,628,099    10.0        0.3881076           384,628,099    10.0        0.5346417
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In addition, by the mentioned decision of the Committee on Indices and Securities Valuation dated November 1, 2018 new adjustment coefficient (K) value – 5.8125495 will be used when calculating the KASE Index. Prior to this date, the value was 4.3215087.

NOTES TO TABLE

KASE Index – KASE share market index, showing change of prices of shares from the representative list for calculation of the index with account to capitalization of issuers and number of free floating shares (free float). One stock may not exceed 15 % weight in the index. KASE Index is calculated within a trading day as deals in the representing stocks are concluded. In case no deals, parameters of which are required for calculation of the KASE Index, were made in the stock during a trading day, for purposes of such calculation, results of the last resultant trading session will be used.

The Methodology of index calculation is regulated by KASE internal document "Methodology of Stock Market Indicators Calculation", available at KASE website at: see more

The index page is available at: see more

Ticker shows: issuer code of a security traded on KASE (first 4 symbols, which is also the code of a common share); share category (if the fifth symbol is "p", preferred share); order number of the share issue (if required, it is the sixth numeric symbol). Issuers code: CCBN – Bank CenterCredit JSC; GB_KZMS – KAZAKHMYS PLC; HSBK – Halyk Savings Bank of Kazakhstan JSC; KCEL – Kcell JSC; KEGC – Kazakhstan Electricity Grid Operating Company "KEGOC" JSC (KEGC); KZTK – Kazakhtelecom JSC; KZTO – KazTransOil JSC.

Number of outstanding shares – parameter, which is determined independently by KASE on the basis of listing company share register extract data or information provided by the company as a number of outstanding shares of a listing company net of those redeemed. KASE is taking into account the number of outstanding shares, which is confirmed by documents available on KASE.

Free float (Fi), % – parameter, determined by KASE as the number of shares not owned by the government, issuer management and shareholders, who own five or more percent of common shares of the issuer, except for shareholders in regard of which the Committee on Indices and Securities Valuation made a decision that such shareholders shall not be deemed as strategic (institutional investors, nominal holders, and entities performing functions of settlement service etc.).

Restrictive coefficient (Ri) – parameter limiting weight of influence of one stock on index value to fifteen percent.

[2018-11-01]