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Malaysia's Top 100 Listed Companies by Revenue Source

The chart below shows the top 100 companies listed on FTSE Bursa Malaysia EMAS Index as of June 18, 2015. The default colors represent the sectors and the bubble sizes represent market capitalization. For example Maybank (or MALAYAN_BANKING), the largest listed company had 73% of its revenues from Malaysia and 27% from global sources. The global share includes revenues from Southeast Asia, which, for Maybank were 21.9% of total revenues. Feel free to adjust the axes to see what these are for the companies shown. Data Source: Bloomberg
Note: The FTSE Bursa Malaysia EMAS Index is a capitalization weighted index. The index is comprised of the large and - mid cap constituents of the FTSE Bursa Malaysia 100 Index and the FTSE Bursa Malaysia Small Cap Index. The index was developed with a base value of 6000 as of March 31, 2006.

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