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THE IRISH STOCK EXCHANGE, it’s fair to say, isn’t among the world’s most prominent – but that’s not to say it doesn’t have its fair share of big companies.
The exchange’s future has been called into some question recently after one of its larger firms, United Drug, suggested it may have to delist from the exchange in order to concentrate on its placement in London.
This is because companies need to have a certain proportion of their shares traded in London in order to be included in the FTSE indices.
Nonetheless, the index gets its fair share of companies which have presences on other exchanges worldwide – as well as some of Ireland’s biggest native firms too.
Here, in terms of their market capitalisation (i.e. the total value of all their shares, added together) are the 15th most valuable companies listed on the ISE.
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Food and drink is where it’s at, and there’s room for future growth too.
And not one technology company, which is probably a little worrying. No dot com companies either, which given the latest fiasco in this area – the Facebook floatation – is probably not a bad thing!
AIB has a market cap of about €300m, not the €26,000m plus stated here. It may have had billions upon billions of taxpayers’ money pumped into it but that all went down a bottomless pit of property loan losses in order to pay back German banks.
Aside from tax loopholes and exploiting whatever they can in order to make money CRH,like nearly all modern business,are building a Apartheid Wall for the Israelis
How CRH makes some of its profits..
http://www.bdsmovement.net/2012/irish-and-palestinian-activists-to-crh-stop-cementing-apartheid-9057
What about the ESM listings? Personally I’d find them more interesting as this list is quite predictable.
No surprises at all really.
Some of the above (AIB in particular) have their shares listed on the ESM
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