/KASE, October 31, 2019/ – From November 1, 2019, Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) Committee on Indices and Securities Valuation by its decision of October 31, 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 the new share parameters, and those which were in effect before November 1, 2019 that influence the value of KASE Index.

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                Effective from November 1, 2019       Effective before November 1, 2019
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Ticker         qnty of    free      restrictive        qnty of    free      restrictive
           outstanding   float coefficient (Ri)    outstanding   float coefficient (Ri)
                shares (Fi), %                          shares (Fi), %                 
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CCBN       165,637,911    41.7        1.0000000    165,637,911    41.7        1.0000000
GB_KZMS    480,723,977    61.3        0.0883976    480,723,977    55.6        0.0320845
HSBK    11,754,049,397    35.5        0.1106372 11,754,049,397    25.5        0.0599880
KCEL       200,000,000    25.0        0.5396948    200,000,000    20.0        0.3109220
KEGC       259,998,610    10.0        1.0000000    259,998,610    10.0        0.5866033
KZTK        10,706,024    23.0        0.9650749     10,706,024    23.0        0.3947221
KZTO       384,628,099    10.0        1.0000000    384,628,099    10.0        0.5903420
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                            Included in KASE Index universe                            
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KZAP       259,356,608    18.7        0.2257234             -        -                -
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Besides, following the mentioned decision of the Committee on Indices and Securities Valuation, as of November 1, 2019 a new adjustment coefficient (K) value – 1.9608292 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); KZAP – National atomic company "Kazatomprom" JSC; 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, while calculating KASE Index, 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, the issuer's 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.

[2019-10-31]