Business revenues for 56 percent of domestic firms listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange or the over-the-counter GRETAI Securities Market increased 11.3 percent last month over the same period last year, according to statistics released by Barits Investment Services Corp (倍利投顧) last week.
Among them, 128 companies registered record-high turnover last month, compared with just 78 in April.
As a whole, nearly 70 percent of publicly traded companies saw business revenues surge in the first five months from the same period last year.
According to Barits Investment, last month's money-making industries registered average growth of more than 40 percent.
These industries included the dynamic random access memory segment, computer motherboards, solar power supply systems, cellphone components, light emitting diode products, computer and video games, integrated circuit packaging and testing, non-iron metals, stainless steel, and wire and cable.
Also last month, 43 percent of listed and over-the-counter companies saw business revenues decline. Financial holding companies, banks, bicycle and automobile industries dropping by more than 30 percent over the same period last year, while graphics cards, compact disc players, electrical and electronic engineering sectors fell by more than 20 percent.
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