/KASE, May 2, 2019/ – From May 1, 2019, Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) Committee on Indices and Securities Valuation by its decision of April 30, 2019 defined new parameters for shares included in KASE Index's universe – portions of shares in free float and restrictive coefficients.

The table below shows new share parameters effective as of May 2, 2019 that influence the value of KASE Index.

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number of outstanding Restrictive Ticker shares Free float coefficient (Ri) ISIN (Fi), %

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CCBN    KZ0007786572           165,637,911       35.8        1.0000000
GB_KZMS GB00B0HZPV38           480,723,977       55.6        0.0241399
HSBK    KZ000A0LE0S4        11,754,049,397       25.5        0.0661881
KCEL    KZ1C00000876           200,000,000       19.7        0.2689812
KEGC    KZ1C00000959           259,998,610       10.0        0.4894651
KZTK    KZ0009093241            10,707,323       23.0        0.3283745
KZTO    KZ1C00000744           384,628,099       10.0        0.4321351
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Besides, following the mentioned decision of the Committee on Indices and Securities Valuation, as of May 1, 2019 a new adjustment coefficient (K) value – 5.7255285 will be used.

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 on KASE website at see more

The index page is available at see more

Ticker shows: issuer code of a security traded on KASE (the 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 the weight of influence of each stock on the index value to fifteen percent.

[2019-05-02]