A total of 1,723 listed companies (excluding the financial holding companies) have filed 2021 Q1 financial reports by May 17, 2021. The domestic listed companies (861 TWSE- and 752 TPEx- listed companies) as a whole report NT$8,450.4 billion in total operating revenue for the three months ended March 31, 2021, which is a YOY increase of NT$1,798 billion, or 27.03%, compared to 2020.The total net profit before tax for the three months ended March 31, 2021 is NT$975.5 billion, which is a YOY increase of NT$623.2 billion, or 176.89%, compared to 2020.The quarterly profits of domestic listed companies hit a new high in recent years.

Among all the Exchange-listed companies, the main industries with a growing tendency in their net profit before tax are “Shipping and Transportation” ,”Semiconductors”, and “Manufacture of Plastics Products”, and the domestic TPEx-listed companies are “Biotechnology and Medicine”, “Electronic Parts and Components”, and ”Semiconductors”.