Korea Securities Depository (KSD) announced on the 31st that a total of 386.37 million shares of 62 stocks will be released from mandatory holding registration in August.
Mandatory holding registration refers to the process of registering shares owned by major shareholders with the Korea Securities Depository (KSD) for a certain period to limit disposals, aimed at protecting general investors.
The company with the highest ratio of released shares to total issued shares is Finecircuit, with 75.16% being released from mandatory holding registration. Following that, Ercos at 71.48% and Motive Link at 69.12% also had high ratios.
The company with the largest number of shares released from mandatory holding registration is Aprogen Biologics, amounting to 66.07 million shares. It is followed by LG CNS with 65.40 million shares and PharmAbcine with 37.10 million shares.