Government of Sri Lanka and Global Telecommunication Holdings N.V. together hold more than 94% of issued share capital of the Company, while remaining less than 6% is held by the general public. Sri Lanka Telecom continued communicating the Company performance to the shareholders and various interested parties including the investing community through media releases, Web portal and announcements to the Colombo Stock Exchange etc. during the year under review. Award winning Annual Reports of the Company with comprehensive details on a timely manner complements the communication process.
Focusing mainly the lenders to Sri Lanka Telecom Group, the company continued to maintain its credit ratings through two globally recognised rating agencies, Standard & Poor’s rating services (S & P) and Fitch Ratings. End of the financial year under review, Sri Lanka Telecom was rated at ‘B+’ on both local currency and foreign currency Corporate Credit rating by S & P. Fitch Ratings has rated at ‘AAA (lka)’ on long-term national and ‘BB-’ on both long-term foreign currency and local currency.
| Shareholdings | Resident | Non-Resident | Total | ||||||
| Number of shareholders |
No. of
shares |
Percentage (%) | Number of shareholders |
No. of
shares |
Percentage (%) | Number of shareholders |
No. of
shares |
Percentage (%) | |
| 1 -1,000 Shares | 9,500 | 2,989,104 | 0.17 | 21 | 10,893 | 0.00 | 9,521 | 2,999,997 | 0.17 |
| 1,001 - 10,000 Shares | 2,368 | 9,521,763 | 0.53 | 29 | 162,475 | 0.01 | 2,397 | 9,684,238 | 0.53 |
| 10,001 - 100,000 Shares | 255 | 5,343,899 | 0.30 | 12 | 275,645 | 0.02 | 267 | 5,619,544 | 0.32 |
| 100,001 - 1,000,000 Shares | 10 | 1,593,647 | 0.09 | 2 | 401,500 | 0.02 | 12 | 1,995,147 | 0.11 |
| Over 1,000,000 Shares | 9 | 972,803,205 | 53.90 | 1 | 811,757,869 | 44.98 | 10 | 1,784,561,074 | 98.87 |
| 12,142 | 992,251,618 | 54.97 | 65 | 812,608,382 | 45.03 | 12,207 | 1,804,860,000 | 100.00 | |
| Categories of shareholders | No. of shareholders | No. of shares |
| Individual | 12,074 | 17,909,790 |
| Institutional | 133 | 1,786,950,210 |
| 12,207 | 1,804,860,000 |
| 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | |
| Highest value (Rs.) | 57.30 | 50.00 | 50.00 | 64.50 | 51.00 | 48.00 | 49.75 | 43.25 |
| Lowest value (Rs.) | 33.00 | 36.10 | 34.00 | 44.00 | 35.00 | 39.50 | 29.75 | 28.00 |
| Last traded price (Rs.) | 49.90 | 37.00 | 44.50 | 48.00 | 49.00 | 46.00 | 31.00 | 31.50 |
| Market capitalisation (Rs. billion) | 90.00 | 66.78 | 80.32 | 86.63 | 88.44 | 83.02 | 55.95 | 56.85 |
| 2014 | 2013 | |
| No. of transactions | 6,629 | 4,481 |
| No. of shares traded | 14,696,347 | 3,433,607 |
| Value of shares traded (Rs.) | 682,114,330 | 152,703,746 |
| Name | Shareholding | Percentage (%) | |
| 1. | Secretary to the Treasury | 893,405,709 | 49.50 |
| 2. | Global Telecommunications Holdings NV | 811,757,869 | 44.98 |
| 3. | Employees’ Provident Fund | 24,165,092 | 1.34 |
| 4. | Sri Lanka Insurance Corporation Limited – Life Fund | 17,713,735 | 0.98 |
| 5. | Bank of Ceylon A/C Ceybank Unit Trust | 16,756,819 | 0.93 |
| 6. | National Savings Bank | 13,158,700 | 0.73 |
| 7. | Employees’ Trust Fund Board | 3,302,188 | 0.18 |
| 8. | Sri Lanka Insurance Corporation Limited – General Fund | 2,094,476 | 0.12 |
| 9. | Seylan Bank PLC/ARC Capital (Private) Limited | 1,137,248 | 0.06 |
| 10. | Bank of Ceylon A/C Ceybank – Century Growth Fund | 1,069,238 | 0.06 |
| 11. | Mr. Vandrevala | 231,500 | 0.01 |
| 12. | The Incorporated Trustees of the Church of Ceylon | 223,590 | 0.01 |
| 13. | Bank of Ceylon No. 1 Account | 214,000 | 0.01 |
| 14. | Mr. Van Starrex | 198,638 | 0.01 |
| 15. | Mr. Tanaka | 170,000 | 0.01 |
| 16. | Union Assurance PLC/Account No. 05 | 162,006 | 0.01 |
| 17. | Ceylon Biscuits Limited | 162,000 | 0.01 |
| 18. | Mrs. Edirisinghe | 160,000 | 0.01 |
| 19. | Pinnacle Trust (Private) Limited | 160,000 | 0.01 |
| 20. | Sinharaja Hills Plantation (Private) Limited | 107,491 | 0.01 |
| Total | 1,786,350,299 | 98.97 |