Here is the information of the Bursa Malaysia market capitalization information based on the closing price on 16 April 2010.

Top 10 Overall Stocks in terms of market capitalization Stocks in Bursa Malaysia

Stock	Total Share	Market Price	Market Capitalization	% Change
Maybank	7,077,982,600.00	7.44	52,660,190,544.00
SIME	6,009,463,000.00	8.69	52,222,233,470.00
CIMB	3,582,394,000.00	13.98	50,081,868,120.00
PBBank	3,531,925,834.00	12.02	42,453,748,524.68
Maxi	7,500,000,000.00	5.29	39,675,000,000.00
MISC	4,463,792,700.00	8.64	38,567,168,928.00
Tenaga	4,342,767,350.00	8.47	36,783,239,454.50
IOICorp	6,675,517,500.00	5.5	36,715,346,250.00
Axiata	8,445,154,000.00	3.73	31,500,424,420.00
Genting	3,705,278,000.00	6.6	24,454,834,800.00

4 out of the top 10 stocks are private companies namely Public bank, maxis, IOI Corp and Genting whereas the rest are the government linked companies (GLCs).

It has been announced that 2 more heavyweight government linked companies will be listed in the near future to further boost the total overall Bursa Malaysia market capitalization in order to attract the attentions of the foreign institutions players.

Banking Stocks in terms of market capitalization in Bursa Malaysia

Stocks	Price	Share Issued	Market Cap	Changes %
Maybank	7.44	7,077,663,000	52,657,812,720.00
CIMB	13.98	3,582,394,000	50,081,868,120.00
Public Bank	12.02	3,531,925,834	42,453,748,524.68
AMMB Holdings	4.96	3,014,183,850	14,950,351,896.00
Hong Leong Bank	8.85	1,580,107,034	13,983,947,250.90
RHB Capital	6.03	2,153,474,695	12,985,452,410.85
EON Capital	7.18	693,208,732	4,977,238,695.76
Affin Holdings	3.08	1,494,366,667	4,602,649,334.36
Alliance Financial Group	3.14	1,548,105,929	4,861,052,617.06
BIMB	1.40	1,066,789,000	1,493,504,600.00
MBSB	1.13	1,066,789,000	1,205,471,570.00

Most probably Hong Leong Bank will overtake AMMB (AMBANK major shareholder) if it is success in the bid to acquire the EON Bank and become the leader in the second tier banks.

Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) market capitalization in Bursa Malaysia

Stocks	Price	Share Issued	Market Cap	Changes (%)
STAREIT	0.865	1,178,900,000	1,019,748,500
BSDREIT	1.370	557,001,000	763,091,370
AXREIT	2.000	307,081,200	614,162,400
ALAQAR	1.040	518,367,000	539,101,680
AMFIRST	1.110	429,001,000	476,191,110
QCAPITA	1.040	390,131,000	405,736,240
HEKTAR	1.220	320,001,000	390,401,220
ARREIT	0.880	431,553,191	379,766,808
UOAREIT	1.380	245,948,700	339,409,206
TWRREIT	1.210	280,500,000	339,405,000
ATRIUM	0.945	121,801,000	115,101,945
AHP	0.940	100,000,000	94,000,000

It was reported that  Sunway and SIME do have the plan to list the REIT unit in Bursa Malaysia and most probably Sunway REIT will be the first new REIT in Bursa Malaysia in year 2010. Do wait and see whether this will happen in the second half of 2010.

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