In the first half of the year, 10 companies earned more than 10 billion yuan and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd. earned the largest number of HTC rankings.

The semi-annual report of listed counter companies was released one after another. In the first half of this year, after-tax net profit accumulatively exceeded 10 billion, followed by TSMC (2330-TW) (TSM-US), HTC (2498-TW), and TSMC (1326-TW). Hon Hai (2317-TW), Formosa Plastics (6505-TW), Formosa Plastics (1301-TW), China Electric (2412-TW), South Asia (1303-TW), China Steel (2002-TW) and Fubon Gold (2881-TW). Regrettably, Mega Gold ranked 11th in the first half after net profit after tax of 9.48 billion yuan, failing to break into the 10 billion club ranking in the first half of the year.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd. has again won the most profitable company in the first half of this year. In the first half of the year, the net profit after tax reached 72.228 billion yuan. However, the gross profit margin of TSMC was slightly lower than that of the same period last year; EPS of the company was 2.9% lower than that of the previous year, and it was 3% less than the annual profit, and it was less than HTC's 37.51 yuan and 4.95 yuan.

TSMC stated that its operating income for the first half of the year was RMB 215.886 billion, operating margin of RMB 102.527 billion, operating expenses of RMB 25.497 billion, total consolidated profit and loss of RMB 72.455 billion, consolidated net profit and loss of RMB 72.228 billion, gross profit margin of 46.16%, and gross profit margin of 48.2% for the same period of last year. Compared with the year-on-year decrease of 9%, EPS was 2.79 yuan, which is a year-on-year decrease of 3% compared with 2.85 yuan last year.

TSMC has also revised down its capital expenditure for the full year this year to 7.4 billion U.S. dollars, and it is expected that the third quarter revenue will be affected by the industrial inventory adjustment. The revenue for the quarter will be reduced by 5.9-7.7%, and the gross profit margin will also decline compared to the second quarter. About 4%, between 40.5-42.5%, based on the US$1 to NT$28.72, it is expected that TSMC’s combined revenue in the third quarter will be between NT10,210 and 1040 million.

In addition, TSMC chairman Zhang Zhongmou will attend the "Sail the next Golden Age Semiconductor Industry Summit Forum" held this week and give a keynote speech on the future development of the semiconductor industry.