🇲🇾 Bursa Malaysia Stock Screener — KLCI, KLSE & Sharia-Compliant Quotes

Institutional-grade screener for Bursa Malaysia (formerly the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange, KLSE) — Southeast Asia's fourth-largest equity venue and a unique market that sits at the intersection of palm-oil plantations, oil and gas (Petronas), Islamic finance, and ASEAN consumer demographics. This actor returns live quotes, market capitalization (in MYR billion), valuation ratios, dividend yields, sector classifications, and Sharia-compliance flags for the FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI top 30, the broader Bursa Main Market universe, and the Islamic-equity subset in a single structured JSON payload.

Malaysia is ASEAN's third-largest economy by GDP, a top-three global producer of palm oil, the largest exporter of liquefied natural gas in the region, and the world's largest single hub for Sharia-compliant equity, Islamic banking, and sukuk issuance. Yet research desks covering Kuala Lumpur–listed names still pay Bloomberg / Refinitiv terminal fees in excess of USD 24,000 per seat per year to access the same Bursa prices, P/E ratios, market caps, dividend yields, and Sharia status that this actor delivers programmatically for USD 0.25 per stock.

If you cover Malaysian equities, run a quant strategy on the KLCI, build a fintech dashboard for retail investors in Kuala Lumpur, manage an ASEAN ETF, run an Islamic-equity fund that screens against the SC Shariah Advisory Council list, or simply want clean structured data on Maybank, Public Bank, Tenaga Nasional, CIMB, Petronas Chemicals, IHH Healthcare, MISC, Sime Darby Plantation, or Axiata — this is your Bloomberg alternative. Buy what you need, when you need it, and pay nothing the moment you stop running queries.

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What this actor returns

For every constituent ticker, the actor emits one JSON record with:

Field	Description
ticker	Yahoo Finance symbol with .KL suffix (e.g., MAYBANK.KL)
symbol_no_suffix	Bare KLSE trading code (e.g., MAYBANK)
name	Long legal company name (e.g., Malayan Banking Berhad)
sector	GICS-style sector classification
sharia_compliant	Boolean — whether the stock is on the Securities Commission Malaysia's Shariah Advisory Council list
index_membership	List of indices the stock belongs to (KLCI, Bursa-all)
exchange	Always KLSE
exchange_full_name	Always Bursa Malaysia
currency	Always MYR (Malaysian Ringgit)
price_myr	Last regular-market price in MYR
previous_close_myr	Previous session close
day_change_pct	Intraday % change
day_high_myr / day_low_myr	Intraday range
fifty_two_week_high_myr / fifty_two_week_low_myr	52-week range
market_cap_myr	Raw market capitalization in MYR
market_cap_myr_billion	Market cap in billion MYR (the standard reporting unit for Malaysian equities)
pe_ratio	Trailing twelve-month P/E
forward_pe	Forward P/E estimate
pb_ratio	Price-to-book ratio
eps_trailing	Trailing twelve-month EPS
dividend_yield	Trailing annual dividend yield (decimal)
volume	Latest session volume
avg_volume_3m	3-month average daily volume
source	Data source attribution

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The FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI — the blue-chip index

The FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI (formerly the Kuala Lumpur Composite Index) is the headline benchmark for Malaysian equities. It comprises the 30 largest, most-liquid, free-float-adjusted Main Market companies, reconstituted semi-annually by FTSE Russell. The KLCI is the index that BNM (Bank Negara Malaysia), the EPF (Employees Provident Fund), KWAP (Kumpulan Wang Persaraan), Khazanah Nasional, and PNB (Permodalan Nasional Berhad) — Malaysia's massive domestic institutional buy-side — benchmark against. It includes household names such as:

• Maybank (MAYBANK.KL) — Malayan Banking, Malaysia's largest bank by assets and a top-3 ASEAN bank, market cap typically over RM 100 billion.
• Public Bank (PBBANK.KL) — Founded by the late Tan Sri Teh Hong Piow, the second-largest Malaysian bank and one of the most consistently profitable banks in Southeast Asia.
• Tenaga Nasional (TENAGA.KL) — Malaysia's national electricity utility, the dominant generator, transmitter, and distributor of power.
• CIMB Group (CIMB.KL) — Malaysia's second-largest banking group, with operations across Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines, and Vietnam.
• IHH Healthcare (IHH.KL) — One of the world's largest private healthcare operators, with hospitals across Malaysia, Singapore, Turkey, India, and Greater China.
• Petronas Chemicals (PCHEM.KL) — Listed petrochemical arm of Petronas, the national oil and gas major.
• Petronas Gas (PETGAS.KL) — Listed gas-transportation and processing arm of the Petronas group.
• MISC (MISC.KL) — Petronas-affiliated shipping group, one of the world's largest LNG fleet operators.
• Sime Darby Plantation (SDG.KL) — One of the world's largest palm-oil producers by planted area.
• IOI Corporation (IOICORP.KL) — Integrated palm-oil play across upstream plantation, midstream refining, and downstream specialty chemicals.
• Kuala Lumpur Kepong (KLK.KL) — Another global palm-oil major, controlled by the Lee family.
• Hong Leong Bank (HLBANK.KL) — Hong Leong Group's listed commercial bank arm.
• RHB Bank (RHBBANK.KL) — Top-four Malaysian banking group.
• Telekom Malaysia (TM.KL) — Incumbent fixed-line operator and the dominant fibre-broadband provider.
• Maxis (MAXIS.KL) and CelcomDigi (CDB.KL) — Malaysia's two largest mobile-network operators.
• Axiata (AXIATA.KL) — Regional telecom holding (Celcom, XL Axiata Indonesia, Robi Bangladesh, Dialog Sri Lanka, Smart Cambodia, Ncell Nepal).
• Genting (GENTING.KL) and Genting Malaysia (GENM.KL) — Lim Goh Tong's gaming, hospitality and plantation empire (Genting Highlands, Resorts World casinos).
• Nestle (Malaysia) (NESTLE.KL) — The local subsidiary of Nestle SA, one of the most premium-rated consumer staples in the region.
• MR DIY (MRDIY.KL) — Malaysia's largest home-improvement and budget-retail chain, a post-IPO consumer growth story.

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Why MYR is reported in billions

The Malaysian Ringgit trades at roughly 1 USD ≈ 4.65 MYR at the time of writing. The convention used by Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM), Bursa Malaysia, the Securities Commission (SC), and every domestic broker is to quote corporate market capitalizations and earnings in billion MYR (RM bilion). A small Bursa Main Market company typically has a market cap of around 1 billion MYR (≈ USD 215 million). The largest Malaysian blue chips — Maybank, Public Bank, Tenaga Nasional, Petronas Chemicals — sit in the RM 50–110 billion range (≈ USD 10–25 billion). We expose both market_cap_myr and market_cap_myr_billion so you can pick the reporting unit that matches your model.

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Sharia-compliant equities — Malaysia's distinctive niche

Malaysia is the global hub for Islamic finance. Roughly 75-80% of all Bursa-listed equities are classified as Sharia-compliant by the Securities Commission Malaysia's Shariah Advisory Council (SAC), with the list reformulated and published semi-annually. The screening filters out companies with material exposure to conventional (interest-based) banking, conventional insurance, gambling, alcohol, pork, tobacco, adult entertainment, and stocks where mixed-income from non-permissible activities exceeds prescribed financial-ratio thresholds.

Conventional banks (Maybank, Public Bank, CIMB, Hong Leong, RHB, AMBank) are NOT on the SAC list — they have separately incorporated Islamic-banking subsidiaries (Maybank Islamic, Public Islamic, CIMB Islamic, Bank Islam BIMB, RHB Islamic, AmBank Islamic) which are themselves Sharia-compliant but not separately listed as parent equity. Gaming names (Genting, Genting Malaysia) and brewers (Carlsberg Malaysia, Heineken Malaysia) are likewise non-compliant.

The sharia_only=true input filter restricts results to the SAC list — useful if you manage an Islamic-equity portfolio, build a robo-advisor for Muslim retail investors, run an Islamic ETF (e.g., MyETF Dow Jones Islamic Market Malaysia Titans 25), or write academic research on faith-based investing.

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Use cases

1. ASEAN equity quants. Pair this actor with our idx-indonesia-stock-screener, set-thailand-stock-screener, sgx-singapore-stock-screener and hose-vietnam-stock-screener to build a pan-ASEAN factor model. Malaysia is the bridge between insular ASEAN (Indonesia, Philippines) and mainland ASEAN (Thailand, Vietnam) and its banks frequently lead regional rate-cycle moves.
2. Palm-oil and soft-commodity strategies. Roughly 30% of the world's palm-oil supply originates from Malaysia, and Bursa is home to the deepest cluster of palm-oil pure-plays anywhere — Sime Darby Plantation, IOI Corp, KLK, FGV, Genting Plantations, IJM Plantations. Filter by Consumer Staples or pair with our CPO futures actors.
3. Islamic-equity research. Use sharia_only=true to build a Sharia-compliant Bursa screen, suitable for Islamic ETFs, halal robo-advisors, fatwa-screened pension mandates, GCC-Malaysia cross-listings, and academic finance research on faith-based investing.
4. Bank and telecom sector dashboards. Malaysia's "Big Four" banks (Maybank, Public Bank, CIMB, RHB plus Hong Leong) and the dominant telcos (Maxis, CelcomDigi, Axiata, Telekom Malaysia) drive a large share of KLCI returns. Track P/E, P/B, and dividend yield over time without licensing Bloomberg.
5. Petronas-complex tracking. Petronas itself is unlisted, but its listed affiliates — Petronas Chemicals (PCHEM), Petronas Gas (PETGAS), Petronas Dagangan (PETDAG), and MISC — form one of the largest listed oil-and-gas clusters in Asia ex-Greater China. Filter by Energy or Utilities.
6. Healthcare and pandemic supply chain. IHH Healthcare is one of the world's largest hospital operators; Top Glove, Hartalega, Kossan and Supermax are the world's largest rubber-glove manufacturers (a critical pandemic-era supply chain). Filter by Healthcare.
7. Tech and semiconductor backend. Malaysia hosts a globally significant cluster of semiconductor outsourced assembly and test (OSAT) names — Inari Amertron, Vitrox, Pentamaster, Unisem, MPI — riding the same AI/data-centre tailwind as Taiwan's TSMC ecosystem at much lower valuations.
8. REITs and property income. KLCC Property, IGB REIT, Pavilion REIT, Sunway REIT, Axis REIT and others give exposure to Kuala Lumpur office, retail and logistics property at high yields. Filter by Real Estate.

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Input

Field	Type	Description
limit	integer	Max stocks to return. Default 30, max 1000. Each returned stock is billed at $0.25.
index	enum	KLCI (top 30 FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI blue chips) or Bursa-all (broader Bursa Main Market universe including mid-caps).
min_market_cap_myr_billion	integer	Filter out small-caps below this threshold in billion MYR. Default 0 (no filter).
sector	enum	Optional sector filter (Financials, Utilities, Consumer Staples, Healthcare, Energy, Industrials, Communication Services, Real Estate, Technology, Basic Materials, Consumer Cyclical).
sharia_only	boolean	If true, return only stocks on the Securities Commission Malaysia Shariah Advisory Council list. Default false.

Sample input (smoke test)

{
  "limit": 10,
  "index": "KLCI"
}

Sample input — Malaysian banks only

{
  "limit": 20,
  "index": "Bursa-all",
  "sector": "Financials"
}

Sample input — Sharia-compliant blue chips

{
  "limit": 30,
  "index": "KLCI",
  "sharia_only": true
}

Sample input — palm-oil plantations

{
  "limit": 20,
  "index": "Bursa-all",
  "sector": "Consumer Staples",
  "min_market_cap_myr_billion": 1
}

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Sample output (one record)

{
  "ticker": "MAYBANK.KL",
  "symbol_no_suffix": "MAYBANK",
  "name": "Malayan Banking Berhad",
  "sector": "Financials",
  "sharia_compliant": false,
  "index_membership": ["KLCI"],
  "exchange": "KLSE",
  "exchange_full_name": "Bursa Malaysia",
  "currency": "MYR",
  "price_myr": 10.20,
  "previous_close_myr": 10.16,
  "day_change_pct": 0.39,
  "market_cap_myr": 123000000000,
  "market_cap_myr_billion": 123.0,
  "pe_ratio": 13.2,
  "forward_pe": 12.4,
  "pb_ratio": 1.32,
  "dividend_yield": 0.058,
  "volume": 14000000,
  "source": "yahoo_finance"
}

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Pricing — Pay Per Event

This actor uses Apify's Pay-Per-Event (PPE) model:

Event	Price
Actor start	$0.01
Each stock returned	$0.25

A run with limit: 10 costs $0.01 + (10 × $0.25) = $2.51. There is no platform-usage markup, no proxy surcharge, and no monthly subscription. You only pay for the data you actually consume.

Compare to the alternatives:

• Bloomberg Terminal: ~USD 2,000/month, multi-year contract.
• Refinitiv Eikon: ~USD 1,800/month.
• Direct Bursa data licensing: five-figure annual contracts via Bursa Marketplace / Bursa Anywhere data feeds.
• This actor: USD 0.25 per stock, on demand, no contract.

For a daily refresh of the KLCI top 30, you're looking at ~USD 7.51/day, ~USD 230/month — and you can stop billing the moment you stop needing the data.

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Data sources & methodology

1. Primary: stockanalysis.com/list/bursa-malaysia/ — a single page load returns the full Bursa Malaysia listing universe with bare KLSE ticker, name, price, market cap, % change, and revenue. Quote prefixes use /quote/klse/{ticker}/.
2. Secondary: Yahoo Finance public quote API for .KL-suffixed Malaysian symbols. Yahoo aggregates Bursa end-of-day and near-real-time quotes, exposing them under the same schema as NYSE/NASDAQ tickers, and adds valuation fields (P/E, forward P/E, P/B, dividend yield, EPS) that the listing page does not always include.
3. Universe construction: A curated, regularly-updated list of FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI constituents (the 30 blue chips) plus a broader Bursa Main Market layer of large- and mid-caps shipped with the actor. The Bursa-all mode adds palm-oil plantations, glove manufacturers, OSAT semiconductors, REITs, property developers, and additional consumer and industrial names.
4. Sharia status: The sharia_compliant flag reflects the most recent Securities Commission Malaysia (SC) Shariah Advisory Council list. SAC publishes updates twice a year (May and November). We update the shipped flags within days of each release.

Quotes are typically delayed by 15 minutes for end-users without a real-time Bursa data subscription. If you need real-time millisecond-level data, you will need to license the Bursa MarketPlace feed directly — but for 99% of research, monitoring, factor-backtesting, and dashboard workflows, 15-minute delayed quotes are perfectly sufficient.

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Frequently asked questions

Does this work for stocks outside the KLCI? Yes — set index to Bursa-all to get the broader Bursa Main Market universe including AMMB, Bursa Malaysia itself, Top Glove, Hartalega, IGB REIT, Pavilion REIT, MR DIY, Genting Plantations, FGV, Westports, Malaysia Airports, Inari Amertron, ViTrox, Pentamaster, and dozens of others.

What about ACE Market (small-cap board)? ACE Market is Bursa's growth-board for emerging companies. This actor focuses on the Main Market where institutional liquidity is concentrated. ACE coverage may be added in a future revision based on user demand.

What about LEAP Market? LEAP is Bursa's restricted-access market for sophisticated investors and is not the focus of this screener.

Does this cover the FTSE4Good Bursa Malaysia ESG index? ESG-focused constituents are heavily represented in our KLCI + Bursa-all coverage. You can apply your own ESG screen on top of the returned dataset.

What about real-time intraday quotes? Yahoo Finance and stockanalysis.com both serve delayed quotes (typically 15 min). For real-time millisecond-level data you would need to license the Bursa feed directly via Bursa Marketplace or via an authorized vendor.

How fresh is the constituent list? The FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI reconstitutes semi-annually (typically June/December). We update the shipped universe and the SC SAC Sharia-compliance flags on each rebalance.

Are Malaysian GLCs (government-linked companies) covered? Yes — Tenaga Nasional, Petronas Chemicals, Petronas Gas, MISC, CIMB, Maybank (PNB-anchored), Sime Darby, IHH (Khazanah-anchored), Axiata, Telekom Malaysia, Malaysia Airports and many others are explicitly included.

What is the difference between KLSE and Bursa Malaysia? They refer to the same exchange. KLSE (Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange) was the legacy name; Bursa Malaysia is the current corporate name following the 2004 demutualization. Yahoo Finance and stockanalysis.com both still use the KLSE / .KL shorthand.

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Sister actors in the NexGenData global equity fleet

If you're covering Malaysia, you almost certainly want one or more of these ASEAN- and EM-Asia-focused screeners:

• 🇸🇬 SGX Singapore Stock Screener — Singapore Exchange (DBS, OCBC, UOB, Singtel, CapitaLand REITs). Singapore is the ASEAN financial hub and the natural complement to onshore Kuala Lumpur exposure — many Malaysian conglomerates are also dual-listed or have Singapore subsidiaries.
• 🇹🇭 SET Thailand Stock Screener — Stock Exchange of Thailand (PTT, CPALL, Kasikornbank, AOT). Thailand is Malaysia's largest mainland-ASEAN trading partner and a frequent pair-trade in regional banking and consumer factor strategies.
• 🇮🇩 IDX Indonesia Stock Screener — LQ45 / IDX30 / Bursa Efek Indonesia. Malaysia–Indonesia is the world's most important palm-oil duopoly (together ~85% of global supply), and the two markets co-move heavily on CPO prices and regional banking cycle.
• 🇻🇳 HOSE Vietnam Stock Screener — Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange and VN30 constituents. Vietnam is the frontier ASEAN growth story complementing Malaysia's more mature consumer story.
• 🇮🇳 NSE India Stock Screener — Nifty 50, BSE Sensex constituents. India is the natural EM Asia peer to Malaysia in the Asia-ex-China growth basket.
• 🇰🇷 KOSPI Stock Screener — Samsung, SK Hynix, Hyundai. Korea = developed-Asia counterweight to ASEAN.
• 🇹🇼 TWSE Stock Screener — Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSMC, MediaTek, Foxconn). The semiconductor mirror to Malaysia's OSAT cluster (Inari, ViTrox, Pentamaster, Unisem, MPI).
• 🇭🇰 HKEX Hang Seng Stock Screener — Hong Kong listings, gateway to China-Asia capital flows.

Together these actors form a single-API, pay-as-you-go alternative to Bloomberg / Refinitiv for global equity research, covering the Americas, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and the major emerging and frontier markets.

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Support & feedback

Issues, feature requests, or universe-update suggestions — open an issue against the actor or contact the NexGenData team via the Apify console. We monitor incoming runs, watch coverage on FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI reconstitutions and SC Shariah Advisory Council updates, and ship universe updates within days of each rebalance.

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