OREANDA-NEWS. From February 2, 2015, Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (hereinafter – KASE) Committee on Indices and Securities Valuation by its decision of January 30, 2015 defined new parameters of shares, included in the representative list of KASE index – portions of shares in free circulation, and  restrictive coefficients.

The table below shows new share parameters and those effective till February 2, influencing the KASE index value.


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           Effective from February 2, 2015     Effective till February 2, 2015
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                          free restrictive                   free  restrictive
           outstanding   float coefficient    outstanding   float coefficient
Ticker          shares (Fi), %        (Ri)         shares (Fi), %         (Ri)
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CCBN       162,456,800    26.6   1.0000000    162,456,800    26.6    1.0000000
GB_KZMS    458,379,033    58.0   0.1894957    458,379,033    58.8    0.1254995
HSBK    10,911,156,590    26.6   0.3125835 10,911,224,990    26.7    0.1696777
KCEL       200,000,000    25.0   0.3754143    200,000,000    25.0    0.1866325
KKGB       669,708,607     4.1   1.0000000    669,708,607     4.1    1.0000000
KZTK        10,712,696    23.1   1.0000000     10,721,625    23.1    0.8326959
KZTO       384,635,599    10.0   1.0000000    384,635,599    10.0    0.5861836
RDGZ        67,693,075    36.3   1.0000000     67,693,075    36.3    0.0533614
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                Included in representative list of KASE index                 
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KEGC       260,000,000    10.0   1.0000000              ?       ?            ?
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In addition, by the mentioned Committee on Indices and Securities Valuation
decision from February 2, 2015 at the KASE index calculation shall be used the
new adjustment coefficient (K) value – 1.4530651. 2.4026998

KASE Index – KASE share market index, showing change of prices of shares listed on 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.

Ticker shows: issuer code of security trading on KASE (first 4 symbols, – common share code); share category (if the fifth symbol is "p", preferred share);  share issue order number (if required, the sixth symbol is a digit).

Issuers code:  CCBN – Bank CenterCredit; GB_KZMS – KAZAKHMYS PLC; HSBK – Halyk Savings Bank of Kazakhstan; KCEL – Kcell; KEGC – Kazakhstan Electricity Grid Operating Company "KEGOC" JSC (KEGC); KKGB – Kazkommertsbank; KZTK – Kazakhtelecom; KZTO – KazTransOil; RDGZ – KazMunaiGas Exploration Production.

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 a number of shares not owned by the state, issuer management and shareholders owning five or more percent of common shares of the issuer, except for shareholders in regard of which the Risk committee made a decision that such shareholders shall not be deemed as strategic (institutioanl 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.