/KASE, July 31, 2019/ – From August 1, 2019, Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) Committee on Indices and Securities Valuation by its decision of July 31, 2019 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 as of August 1 that has an impact on the value of KASE Index.

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Share ticker     ISIN     number of outstanding Free float      restrictive
                                         shares    (Fi), % coefficient (Ri)
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CCBN         KZ0007786572           165,637,911       41.7        1.0000000
GB_KZMS      GB00B0HZPV38           480,723,977       55.6        0.0320845
HSBK         KZ000A0LE0S4        11,754,049,397       25.5        0.0599880
KCEL         KZ1C00000876           200,000,000       20.0        0.3109220
KEGC         KZ1C00000959           259,998,610       10.0        0.5866033
KZTK         KZ0009093241            10,706,024       23.0        0.3947221
KZTO         KZ1C00000744           384,628,099       10.0        0.5903420
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In addition, by the mentioned decision of the Committee on Indices and Securities Valuation dated August 1, 2019 new adjustment coefficient (K) value – 4.878921 will be used when calculating the KASE Index..

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 an ordinary 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.

[2019-07-31]