Warsaw, September 11, 2020
Communiqué
GPW Benchmark announces that following the trading session on September 18, 2020 there will be a quarterly revision concerning WIG, WIG-Poland, WIG-Ukraine, WIG-CEE, WIGtech, WIG-ESG and WIG.MS-BAS, WIG.MS-FIN, WIG.GAMES, WIG.MS-PET macrosector indices and quarterly adjustment concerning WIGdiv index.
WIG and WIG-Poland indices comprise of all companies traded on the WSE Main List and meet indices criteria, subject WIG-Poland index covers only domestic companies. In both indices the weighting of CDPROJEKT company will be limited to 10%. Simultaneously with the WIG index portfolio revision, there will be a revision in the sector sub-indices.
Shares of KSGAGRO and COALENERG company will supplement WIG-Ukraine index portfolio and weighting of KERNEL company will be reduced to 40%.
Shares of KSGAGRO companies will supplement WIG-CEE index, while weightings of MOL, CEZ and KRKA companies will be reduced to 25%.
WIGtech index portfolio will be supplemented by GAMFACTOR and NANOGROUP, while weightings of CDPROJEKT, CYFRPLSAT, ASSECOPOL, PLAY and ORANGEPL companies will be reduced to 10%.
WIG-ESG index portfolio will cover participants of WIG20 and mWIG40 indices, as at the end of July 2020. The weightings of companies in the WIG-ESG index were determined on the basis of the number of free float shares, taking into account the ESG Ranking (ESG ratio) and the assessment of the application of the principles of the Code of Good Practice (Best Practice ratio). In line with the WIG-ESG method, the so-called “smoothing mechanism” was applied to GPW company. Additionally, weighting of CDPROJEKT company will be limited to 10%, and total share of companies exceeding 5% the value of the index portfolio will be reduced to 40%.
In portfolios of macrosector indices the weighting of KGHM company in WIG.MS-BAS index, the weighting of CDPROJEKT company in WIG.GAMES index and the weighting of PKNORLEN company in WIG.MS-PET index will be reduced to 40%.
In the WIGdiv index weightings of PKNORLEN, LPP, PGNIG, KETY and ASSECOPOL companies will be limited to 10% while its portfolio will remain unchanged.