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The KSE-30 Index is a stock market index which tracks the performance of the top 30 most liquid companies listed on the stock exchanges in Pakistan. [1] The index is based on a free float methodology [2] in differentiation to other indices based of paid-up capital. [3] The KSE-30 Index was launched and implemented by the Karachi Stock Exchange ...
The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX), founded as Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE), is a stock exchange based in Karachi, Pakistan. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] PSX was classified by MSCI as a frontier market on 8 September 2021.
It was created as a joint effort by the Karachi Stock Exchange (now known as Pakistan Stock Exchange) and Al-Meezan Investment Bank (now known as Meezan Bank Limited). [2] The index is calculated using free float market capitalization. At any point in time, the level of the index reflects the free float market value of selected Shariah ...
Pakistan qualified for the popular MSCI Emerging Markets Index in May 2017, an upgrade from Morgan Stanley Capital International's (MSCI) Frontier Market (FM) index. [ 18 ] On 25 May 2017, the KSE-100 index reached the all-time high of 53,124 points, later it tanked to 37,919 points in a matter of seven months.
It was licensed as a stock exchange on 7 January 1992. It started trading in July 1992. ISE has been corporatized and demutualized on August 26, 2015 in terms of Stock Exchanges (Corporatization, Demutualization and Integration) Act, 2012. As a consequence thereof, its name has been changed as Islamabad Stock Exchange Limited.
In the first four years of the twenty-first century, Pakistan's KSE 100 Index was declared the best-performing stock market index in the world by the international magazine "Business Week". [46] [citation needed] The stock market capitalization of listed companies in Pakistan was valued at $5,937 million in 2005 by the World Bank. [47]
The Sialkot branch was referred to as the Sialkot Trading Floor. [5] With effect from 11 January 2016, the Lahore Stock Exchange was integrated with the Karachi Stock Exchange and Islamabad Stock Exchange under the Stock Exchanges (Corporatisation, Demutualization and Integration) Act, 2012 to form the Pakistan Stock Exchange.
The PSX Dividend 20 Index is a stock index acting as a benchmark to compare prices on the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) over a period. PSX Dividend 20 Index benchmark top 20 dividend paying companies at PSX based on the last 12-month dividend yield. [1] [2] [3] [4]