Consider loading your data into a hash-of-hashes structure: 
use warnings;
use strict;

my %data;
<DATA>; # Discard header
while (<DATA>) {
    chomp;
    my ($tick, @cols) = split /\s*\|\s*/;
    my %comp;
    @comp{qw(name price cap ind)} = @cols;
    $data{$tick} = { %comp };
}

use Data::Dumper; $Data::Dumper::Sortkeys=1; print Dumper(\%data);

__DATA__
TICKER| CO. NAME| PRICE| MARKET CAP| INDUSTRY
ABC | ABC Co.| 15.5| 5000| Industrials
AB | Alpha Beta| 12| 2500| Materials
DOZ | ZZZZZ| 5.05| 2800| Telecom
DX | DX Co.| 77.2| 12000| Industrials
DXX | DXX Co.| 50.25| 9000| Utilities

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Prints: 

$VAR1 = {
          'AB' => {
                    'cap' => '2500',
                    'ind' => 'Materials',
                    'name' => 'Alpha Beta',
                    'price' => '12'
                  },
          'ABC' => {
                     'cap' => '5000',
                     'ind' => 'Industrials',
                     'name' => 'ABC Co.',
                     'price' => '15.5'
                   },
          'DOZ' => {
                     'cap' => '2800',
                     'ind' => 'Telecom',
                     'name' => 'ZZZZZ',
                     'price' => '5.05'
                   },
          'DX' => {
                    'cap' => '12000',
                    'ind' => 'Industrials',
                    'name' => 'DX Co.',
                    'price' => '77.2'
                  },
          'DXX' => {
                     'cap' => '9000',
                     'ind' => 'Utilities',
                     'name' => 'DXX Co.',
                     'price' => '50.25'
                   }
        };

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Refer to perldsc. You need to decide how to manipulate it from there.

In reply to Re: Reading Text File into Hash to Parse and Sort by toolic
in thread Reading Text File into Hash to Parse and Sort by Perl_Derek

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