The Midcap Market Index covers the 80 shares of MDAX® and TecDAX® and tracks the performance of medium-sized companies from the classic and technology sectors. As a broader selection index, it tracks the entire mid-cap market without being dominated by the 'heavyweights’ of the DAX®.

Important inclusion criteria:

- Admission to Prime Standard and compliance with the corresponding international transparency requirements:

	Publication of quarterly reports
	Financial reporting in accordance with international accounting standards such as IFRS/IAS or US-GAAP
	Publication of a corporate financial calendar
	At least one analyst conference per year
	Ad-hoc disclosure in German and English

- Quotation in continuous trading in Xetra®

- Order book turnover in Xetra and on the trading floor of FWB® Frankfurter Wertpapierbörse (the Frankfurt Stock Exchange) (from the previous 12 months)

- Market capitalization as of a cut-off date (last trading day of the month) on the basis of shares in free float

- Ratio: non-free float to free float.