Today, we decided to present you with a brief overview of CROBEX constituents’ free float.
In our analysis we considered free float to equal all individual shareholdings lower than 5%, while pension funds and UCITS funds were considered as free float regardless of their shareholding percentage.
Free Float of CROBEX Constituents (%)
22 CROBEX constituents have a free float higher than 50%, indicating that two-thirds of CROBEX constituents are still held by a small group of majority shareholders. Of the constituents, there are two companies that have free float over 90% – Ingra with a free float of 93.6% and Adris (preferred) with 91.6% of free float.
On the other hand, only ZABA has less than 10% of free float. ZABA has free float of 3.8% and is almost completely owned by Unicredit 84.48% and Allianz 11.72%. ZABA is followed by Saponia, Plava Laguna and Brodogradilište Viktor Lenac with a free float of 12.7%, 15.8% and 18%, respectively.
Prime market is the most demanding market on the Zagreb Stock Exchange regarding the requirements set before the issuer. It is worth noting that it requires the issuer to have a free float of at least 35%. If we were to compare CROBEX to that parameter, a few of the constituents would not meet the criteria (ZABA, Saponia, Plava Laguna, Brodogradilište Viktor Lenac, Dalekovod and HPB).
If we were to calculate the free float of CROBEX constituents while excluding pension funds, the results would be slightly different for some, but significantly different for other companies. Namely, Croatian pension funds hold HRK 15.8bn of the total market capitalization of ZSE, meaning a considerable part of the free float of some constituents is technically “locked in”.
