FOREIGN investors extended their buying streak on Bursa Malaysia to a second week with RM716.1 mil in net foreign inflows during the Jan 12-16 trading period, the largest since mid-May 2025 (RM1.68 bil) and around ~16.8x more than the prior week’s RM42.5 mil.
Foreign investors were net buyers on all five days with the largest inflow recorded on Thursday (Jan 15) (RM330.0 mil), according to MBSB Research (formerly MIDF Research).
“This was followed by Wednesday (Jan 14) (RM172.0 mil), Friday (Jan 16) (RM115.5 mil), Tuesday (Jan 13) (RM69.5 mil) and Monday (Jan 12) (RM29.2 mil).,” observed the research house in its weekly fund flow report.
The top three sectors that recorded net foreign inflows were financial services (RM365.9 mil), industrial products & services (RM177.3 mil) and plantation (RM90.1 mil).
Meanwhile, the only three sectors with net foreign outflows were construction (-RM54.3 mil), healthcare (-RM52.9 mil) and property (-RM29.3 mil).
On the contrary, local institutions broke their eight-week consecutive streak of net buying with net outflows totalling -RM588.2 mil last week, their largest since mid-Mav 2025 (RM1.35 bil).
Meanwhile, local retailers remained net sellers for the seventh consecutive week with a net outflow of -RM127.8 mil last week.
The average daily trading volume (ADTV) saw a broad-based increase with local retailers by +14.0%, local institutions (+18.2%) and foreign investors (+18.7%).
In comparison with another four Southeast Asian markets tracked by MBSB Research, Indonesia posted a 15th straight week of foreign inflows amounting to US$1.75 bil – its largest since April 2022 (US$1.76 bil) and around ~2.75x the prior week’s inflows of US$634.8 mil.
The Philippines extended its buying streak to a third successive week with net foreign inflows totalling US$362.9 mil last week – its largest inflows seen since December 2021 – while foreign investors extended their net buying streak to a second straight week in Thailand with US$240.9 mil.
However, Vietnam ended three consecutive weeks of net foreign buying with outflows of -US$70.5 mil.
The top three stocks with the highest net money inflow from foreign investors last week were Press Metal Aluminium Holdings (RM193.0 mil), Malayan Banking Bhd (RM183.1 mil) and AMMB Holdings Bhd (RM126.3 mil). – Jan 19, 2026
