The capital of the national oil and gas company is estimated at $48.44 billion, while the 20 most valuable public companies in the region are worth $132.8 billion. The cost of KMG is almost 2.7 times that of Kaspi.kz ( & #036; 18.22 billion), and almost three times higher than the cost of Kazatomprom ( & #036; 16.4 billion). In total, 12 Kazakhstani and 8 Uzbek companies are in the top twenty.