Wednesday 24 Apr 2024
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KUALA LUMPUR (July 29): RHB Investment Bank Bhd (RHB IB) has purchased 1 million shares in Sunway Construction Group Bhd (SunCon) in a share price stabilisation effort.

In a filing with Bursa Malaysia today, RHB IB said the shares were purchased for a total RM1.2 million at RM1.20 per share.

Barely two days from the company’s debut on Bursa Malaysia, SunCon’s share price fell below its initial public offering price of RM1.20 today despite earlier stabilising efforts by RHB IB.

At 5pm market close today, the stock closed at RM1.18, down two sen or 1.67% on poor market sentiment and profit taking. It had earlier fallen to a low of RM1.16 before paring losses.

On its maiden trading day, the stock had risen to its intraday high of RM1.32, prompting investors to take profit.

In view with this, stabilising manager RHB IB had bought 4.14 million shares at RM1.20 each in SunCon yesterday.

Today, SunCon was the ninth most-actively traded stock on Bursa Malaysia, registering a trading volume of 19.72 million.

At its closing price of RM1.18 today, the construction company has a market capitalisation of RM1.53 billion.

The decline in SunCon’s share price has wiped out about RM12.6 million of its market capitalisation.

 

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