Euromoney targeted equity analysts covering Asian companies that were constituents as of July 26 2007 of the following indices, the biggest exchanges for domestic shares in the respective countries: Shanghai Composite (People’s Republic of China);
Hang Seng (Hong Kong);
Seoul Composite (Korea);
KLSE Composite (Malaysia);
Philippine Stock Exchange (Philippines);
Straits Times Index (Singapore);
Taiwan SE Weighted Index (Taiwan);
SET (Thailand);
BSE 30 (India).
Euromoney’s annual Asia company ranking is based on a survey of market analysts at leading banks and research institutes in Asia. Polling took place from August 29 to October 12 2007.
We received replies from 128 analysts who made a total of 2,744 nominations for 470 companies. Respondents were asked to nominate the top three companies in each of the countries or sectors they covered, bearing in mind market strength, profitability, growth potential and quality of management and earnings.
Points were awarded on the scale of 4:3:2 for nominations for 1st, 2nd and 3rd places respectively.
A number of other countries and industry sectors were included in the survey, but did not receive enough responses to be published.
| Airlines and aviation | ||
| Number of nominations: 5 | ||
| 2007 | Company | Country |
| 1= | Malaysia Airlines | Malaysia |
| 1= | Singapore Airlines | Singapore |
| 3= | AirAsia | Malaysia |
| 3= | Korean Air | Korea |
| 5 | All Nippon Air | Japan |
| Banking and financial | ||
| Number of nominations: 30 | ||
| 2007 | Company | Country |
| 1 | Fubon Financial | Taiwan |
| 2 | Cathay Financial | Taiwan |
| 3 | China Merchants Bank | China |
| 4 | UOB | Singapore |
| 5= | Public Bank | Malaysia |
| 5= | Shinhan Financial Group | Korea |
| Chemicals | ||
| Number of nominations: 5 | ||
| 2007 | Company | Country |
| 1 | Shanghai Petrochemical | China |
| 2= | Formosa Plastics | Taiwan |
| 2= | LG Chem | Korea |
| 4= | Formosa Petrochemical | Taiwan |
| 4= | PTT Chemical | Thailand |
| Construction | ||
| Number of nominations: 9 | ||
| 2007 | Company | Country |
| 1 | Gamuda | Malaysia |
| 2= | Italian-Thai Development | Thailand |
| 2= | Larsen & Toubro | India |
| 7= | WCT Engineering | Taiwan |
| Consumer goods | ||
| Number of nominations: 18 | ||
| 2007 | Company | Country |
| 1 | China Mengniu Dairy | China |
| 2 | Jollibee Foods | Philippines |
| Food drink and tobacco | ||
| Number of nominations: 7 | ||
| 2007 | Company | Country |
| 1 | ITC | Singapore |
| Gaming & Leisure | ||
| Number of nominations: 16 | ||
| 2007 | Company | Sector |
| 1 | Genting | Malaysia |
| 2 | Shanda | China |
| 3 | Tencent | China |
| Insurance | ||
| Number of nominations: 11 | ||
| 2007 | Company | Country |
| 1= | Cathay Financial | Taiwan |
| 1= | ICICI Prudential Life | India |
| 3 | Ping An Insurance | China |
| Media | ||
| Number of nominations: 8 | ||
| 2007 | Company | Country |
| 1 | MCOT | Thailand |
| 2 | Media Prima | Malaysia |
| 3= | BEC World | Thailand |
| 3= | Major Ciniplex | Thailand |
| Metals and mining | ||
| Number of nominations: 7 | ||
| 2007 | Company | Country |
| 1 | Posco | Korea |
| Oil and gas | ||
| Number of nominations: 14 | ||
| 2007 | Company | Country |
| 1 | PTT | Thailand |
| 2 | Thai Oil | Thailand |
| 3 | CNOOC | China |
| Petrochemicals | ||
| Number of nominations: 4 | ||
| 2007 | Company | Country |
| 1 | PTT Chemical | Thailand |
| 2 | The Aromatics (ATC) | Thailand |
| 3 | Sinopec Tianjin Petrochemical Company | China |
| Property | ||
| Number of nominations: 33 | ||
| 2007 | Company | Country |
| 1 | Sun Hung Kai Properties | Hong Kong |
| 2 | Asian Property Development | Thailand |
| 3= | Hong Kong Land | Hong Kong |
| 3= | SP Setia | Malaysia |
| 5 | CapitaLand | Singapore |
| Retail | ||
| Number of nominations: 9 | ||
| 2007 | Company | Country |
| 1 | Homepro | Thailand |
| Technology | ||
| Number of nominations: 10 | ||
| 2007 | Company | Country |
| 1= | Mediatek | Taiwan |
| 1= | TSMC | Taiwan |
| 3 | AsusTek | Taiwan |
| Telecoms cellular | ||
| Number of nominations: 24 | ||
| 2007 | Company | Country |
| 1 | China Mobile | Hong Kong |
| 2 | Bharti Airtel | India |
| 3 | China Unicom | China |
| 4= | Digi.com | Malaysia |
| 4= | Total Access Communications (DTAC) | Thailand |
| Telecoms fixed | ||
| Number of nominations: 13 | ||
| 2007 | Company | Country |
| 1 | China Telecom | China |
| 2 | Chunghwa Telecom | Taiwan |
| 3 | PCCW | Hong Kong |
| Transport | ||
| Number of nominations: 8 | ||
| 2007 | Company | Country |
| 1 | Pacific Basin Shipping | Hong Kong |
| 2= | MISC | Malaysia |
| 2= | Shenzhen Expressway | China |
| Utilities | ||
| Number of nominations: 12 | ||
| 2007 | Company | Country |
| 1 | China Resources Power | China |
| 2= | Datang International Power | China |
| 2= | Tenaga | Malaysia |
| 4 | Glow Energy | Thailand |
