Noteworthy Market Statistics on 27 October 2006

Statistics

27 Oct 2006

The following statistics are made available in response to media enquiries:

Stock Exchange market capitalisation

Today’s market capitalisation (Main Board and GEM) set a new high of $11,357,915,755,123.

Stock Exchange turnover

Today’s Stock Exchange turnover value was the second-largest in history and the largest this year (see tables 1 and 2 below).

Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC, stock code: 1398)

ICBC’s market capitalisation after the first day of trading in its shares stands at $271,905,832,662, the seventh-largest on the Stock Exchange as of 27 October 2006 (see table 3 below).

Today’s ICBC turnover value, $37,452,484,912, was the largest ever for a single listed company on a single trading day (see table 4 below).

Turnover value of derivative warrants on ICBC shares today was $1,256 million, accounting for 15 per cent of the total derivative warrant trading turnover.

ICBC accounted for about 32 per cent of all record-high trades today on the Stock Exchange and set a record for one stock:

Today’s total trades: 439,833 trades (previous record: approximately 400,000 trades recorded in February 2000 on AMS/2)
Today’s ICBC trades: 141,906 trades

Today’s ICBC orders reached 244,672, which is a record high for a single stock. ICBC also set a new record today for the number of orders in a single price queue with 8,000 orders in the bid queue in the afternoon trading session.

Stock option turnover

The stock options market turnover reached a record high today. A total of 156,907 stock option contracts were traded. The previous record of 144,596 contracts was set on 27 February 2006.

The ICBC stock options recorded a total of 4,114 contracts on its trading debut today.

Note: The Stock Exchange increased the maximum number of outstanding orders per price queue in AMS/3 (the securities market trading system) from 4,000 to 8,000 on 29 May 2006. The maximum number of outstanding orders per price queue was increased to 4,000 from 2,000 on 21 November 2005.

Table 1

Ten most active trading days in history
(Main Board and GEM)
Rank	Date	Turnover ($)
1	28/8/1998	79,002,608,619
2	27/10/2006	76,173,062,000
3	28/4/2006	57,212,882,306
4	1/6/2006	54,198,837,668
5	22/9/2006	50,413,418,632
6	19/4/2006	47,938,396,419
7	29/8/1997	46,096,839,199
8	6/4/2006	45,970,351,910
9	11/5/2006	44,998,444,554
10	8/6/2006	44,652,094,326

Table 2

Ten most active trading days in 2006
(Main Board and GEM)
Rank	Date	Turnover ($)
1	27/10/2006	76,173,062,000
2	28/4/2006	57,212,882,306
3	1/6/2006	54,198,837,668
4	22/9/2006	50,413,418,632
5	19/4/2006	47,938,396,419
6	6/4/2006	45,970,351,910
7	11/5/2006	44,998,444,554
8	8/6/2006	44,652,094,326
9	5/10/2006	43,551,320,395
10	4/10/2006	43,311,713,533

Table 3

Top 10 listed companies by market capitalisation (as at 27 October 2006 )
Rank	Stock Code	Company	Market Capitalisation ($)	% of equity market total
1	5	HSBC Holdings plc	1,692,264,338,711	14.90
2	941	China Mobile Ltd.	1,242,574,508,607	10.94
3	939	China Construction Bank	793,152,466,520	6.98
4	2888	Standard Chartered plc	303,052,923,957	2.67
5	13	Hutchison Whampoa Ltd.	294,812,089,437	2.60
6	883	CNOOC Ltd.	283,802,019,844	2.50
7	1398	ICBC	271,905,832,662	2.39
8	3988	Bank of China	253,907,639,238	2.24
9	16	Sun Hung Kai Properties Ltd.	213,300,935,787	1.88
10	1	Cheung Kong (Holdings) Ltd.	196,410,735,862	1.73

Table 4

Ten most active stocks by single day trading
Rank	Stock Code	Name	Trading Date	Turnover ($)
1	1398	ICBC^#	27/10/2006	37,452,484,912
2	5	HSBC Holdings plc	28/8/1998	24,789,852,927
3	3988	Bank of China Ltd.^#	1/6/2006	20,055,613,386
4	2388	BOC Hong Kong (Holdings) Ltd.	16/12/2003	19,602,857,362
5	883	CNOOC	28/4/2006	17,789,193,100
6	857	PetroChina Co. Ltd.	13/1/2004	15,464,783,204
7	8	PCCW Ltd.	21/9/2000	14,074,996,857
8	8	PCCW Ltd.	15/2/2000	11,972,264,966
9	3968	China Merchants Bank Co Ltd.^#	22/9/2006	11,614,921,098
10	386	China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation	2/3/2005	10,752,170,932

^#First day trading on Main Board.