The Milanka Price Index was one of the principal stock indices of the Colombo Stock Exchange in Sri Lanka till it was discontinued in January 2013 further to introduction of Standard & Poor's Sri Lanka 20 index. It was composed of a select group of 25 best performing stocks, a list which was reviewed each quarter, as opposed to the Colombo Stock Exchange's "All Share Price Index", which uses all of the ~250 stocks on the exchange to calculate an index value.
Listings
As of January 2012, the 25 stocks on the Milanka Price Index,[1] listed by sector, are as follows:
Banks, Finance & Insurance sector
Beverage, Food & Tobacco sector
Diversified sector
Stock symbol | Company | Notes |
SPEN | Aitken Spence | holding company; leisure, transport, services, power, printing, plantations, apparel, property development |
| Free Lanka Capital Holdings | |
JKH | John Keells Holdings | holding company; FMCG, plantations, logistics, information technology, financial services, leisure |
| Richard Pieris | rubber, tires, plastics, agriculture, transport, FMCG |
| The Colombo Fort Land and Building Company | |
| Vallibel One | |
| Softlogic Holdings | |
Manufacturing sector
Power & Energy
Healthcare sector
Land & Property sector
Investment Trusts
Trading
See also
References
- ^ Colombo Stock Exchange. "REVISION OF THE COMPOSITION OF THE MILANKA PRICE INDEX (MPI)1ST JANUARY 2012 TO 30TH JUNE 2012" (PDF).
External links
- Colombo Stock Exchange
- Colombo Stock Watch - One click access to information on shares Archived 28 August 2015 at the Wayback Machine