/KASE, May 2, 12/ - From May 2, 2012, Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) Risk Committee by its decision of May 2, 2012 defined new parameters of shares, included to the KASE index representative list - stakes of free floating shares and restrictive coefficients.

The table below shows new and effective till May 2 shares parameters, influencing the KASE index value.

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               Effective from May 2, 2012         Effective till May 2, 2012
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                         free restrictive                  free  restrictive
              offered   float coefficient       offered   float coefficient
Ticker         shares (Fi), %        (Ri)        shares (Fi), %          Ri)
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CCBN      162,456,800    27.2   1.0000000   162,456,800    27.2    1.0000000
GB_ENRC 1,287,750,000    18.6   0.0425233 1,287,750,000    18.6    0.0373802
GB_KZMS   527,462,458    42.2   0.0290125   535,417,961    43.1    0.0250805
HSBK    1,091,138,829    24.7   0.2210042 1,091,143,839    24.6    0.2870285
KKGB      778,625,062     7.3   1.0000000   778,625,062     7.3    1.0000000
KZTK       10,874,545    22.2   0.1814915    10,872,961    22.1    0.2935837
RDGZ       70,103,314    38.5   0.0292546    70,106,472    38.5    0.0396455
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In addition, by the mentioned Risk Committee decision from May 2, 2012, at the KASE index calculation shall be used the new adjustment coefficient (K) value- 4.6661724. Till the mentioned date K equaled 4.0338234.

NOTES TO TABLE

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.

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

The page on the index is available at: толығырақ

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; GB_ENRC - EURASIAN NATURAL RESOURCES CORPORATION PLC; HSBK - Halyk Savings Bank of Kazakhstan; KKGB - Kazkommertsbank; KZTK - Kazakhtelecom; RDGZ - KazMunaiGas Exploration Production.

Offered 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.

[2012-05-02]