FRANKFURT (dpa-AFX) - Online fashion retailer About You and B2B mail order company Takkt are in a neck-and-neck race for Suse 's place in the SDax, which is likely to become vacant soon. Because for the Linux specialist the offer period of the investment company EQT for its assumption expires on Friday. The result is to be announced on the following Wednesday.

If the free float falls below ten percent, the share must be removed from the index two full trading days after it is announced to Deutsche Borse. Since EQT plans to publish an announcement on this for September 27, a change could then take place on Monday, October 2.

"Followed should u Stand now - About You, but Takkt also has a good chance of returning to the SDax," said index expert Luca Thorißen of investment bank Stifel Europe to financial news agency dpa-AFX. He added that the two companies were separated by only two million euros in terms of the Borsen value measured by the free float. "That is very little and can therefore change quickly," Thorißen said.

Krones, meanwhile, has no chance of taking Suse's place. The bottling line manufacturer appointed an independent audit committee chairman to its supervisory board on Tuesday. As a result, Krones now again meets a quality assurance requirement of Deutsche Borse, but a return to the MDax will take some time. The share had been kicked out of the index of medium-sized companies after the close of trading on the stock exchange on Friday because of the violation of the rule.

"Since Deutsche Borse reviews such criteria only once a month, Krones will not be included again until the next ranking, the one for October," explains the Stifel expert. This at least clears the way for Krones to rejoin the Dax family (Dax, MDax, SDax and TecDax) from December. And with a free-float market capitalization of around 1.5 billion euros, the share is currently in a safe fast-entry spot for the MDax, according to Thorißen. He calculated 77th place, with room to move up to 83rd place.

What will become of Pfeiffer Vacuum is still uncertain. Here, too, there was a potentially index-relevant announcement. On Monday afternoon, the vacuum pump manufacturer announced that its majority shareholder Pangea GmbH had instructed it to switch from the Prime Standard to the General Standard. However, as long as the reporting requirements stipulated for remaining in the Dax family are nevertheless complied with, there will be no further consequences. On the other hand, Pfeiffer will also have to leave the SDax sooner or later.

It will also be exciting in the near future with regard to two stock exchange listings: Gerresheimer competitor Schott Pharma is about to start trading on the stock exchange. This Tuesday saw the start of the subscription period for the papers of the special packaging manufacturer. A total of just over 20 percent of the company, which belongs to Schott AG, is to be floated on the stock exchange on Thursday, September 28. According to the index expert from Stifel, this should be enough for a place among the heavyweights in the SDax in December.

After a 100-year absence from the stock exchange, the tank transmission manufacturer Renk is also striving to return to the trading floor. Whether it could get a place on the SDax, however, is completely uncertain at present. First, according to Thorißen, the Borsengang would have to be around mid-October at the latest, as newcomers have to be on the borsen for at least 30 trading days to get on the monthly selection list of the Deutsche Borse. For December, this would be the November ranking. Secondly, it would have to be waited to see whether the proportion of shares brought to the Borse was sufficiently high to be considered./ck/gl/jha/