List of largest companies in Taiwan
This article lists the largest companies in Taiwan in terms of their revenue, net profit and total assets, according to the American business magazines Fortune and Forbes.
2019 Fortune list
This list displays all 10 Taiwanese companies in the Fortune Global 500, which ranks the world's largest companies by annual revenue. The figures below are given in millions of US dollars and are for the fiscal year 2018.[1] Also listed are the headquarters location, net profit, number of employees worldwide and industry sector of each company.
| Rank | Fortune 500 rank |
Name | Industry | Revenue (USD millions) |
Profits (USD millions) |
Employees | Headquarters |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 23 | Hon Hai Precision Industry | Electronics | 175,617 | 4,282 | 667,680 | New Taipei City |
| 2 | 285 | Pegatron | Electronics | 44,453 | 369 | 156,477 | Taipei |
| 3 | 363 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing | Semiconductor | 34,218 | 12,044 | 48,752 | Hsinchu |
| 4 | 365 | Quanta Computer | Electronics | 34,102 | 502 | 112,421 | Taoyuan |
| 5 | 390 | Compal Electronics | Electronics | 32,103 | 296 | 82,374 | Taipei |
| 7 | 394 | CPC Corporation | Oil and Gas | 31,929 | 1,138 | 15,712 | Kaohsiung |
| 8 | 424 | Wistron | Electronics | 29,510 | 163 | 82,955 | Taipei |
| 9 | 455 | Cathay Life Insurance | Insurance | 27,183 | 1,002 | 38,694 | Taipei |
| 10 | 471 | Fubon Financial Holding Co. | Insurance | 26,276 | 1,583 | 45,174 | Taipei |
| 11 | 492 | Formosa Petrochemical | Oil and Gas | 25,462 | 1,993 | 5,285 | Mailiao |
2019 Forbes list
This list is based on the Forbes Global 2000, which ranks the world's 2,000 largest publicly traded companies. The Forbes list takes into account a multitude of factors, including the revenue, net profit, total assets and market value of each company; each factor is given a weighted rank in terms of importance when considering the overall ranking. The table below also lists the headquarters location and industry sector of each company. The figures are in billions of US dollars and are for the year 2018. All 47 companies from Taiwan in the Forbes 2000 are listed.[2]
| Rank | Forbes 2000 rank |
Name | Headquarters | Revenue (billions US$) |
Profit (billions US$) |
Assets (billions US$) |
Value (billions US$) |
Industry |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 123 | Hon Hai Precision Industry | New Taipei City | 175.6 | 4.3 | 110.0 | 41.2 | Electronics |
| 2 | 126 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing | Taipei | 34.2 | 11.6 | 68.0 | 222.4 | Semiconductor |
| 3 | 295 | Cathay Financial Holding | Taipei | 28.9 | 1.7 | 299.9 | 18.0 | Banking |
| 4 | 349 | Fubon Financial Holding Co. | Taipei | 21.9 | 1.6 | 250.6 | 14.9 | Insurance |
| 5 | 453 | CTBC Financial Holding | Taipei | 16.7 | 1.2 | 187.2 | 12.8 | Finance |
| 6 | 539 | Formosa Petrochemical | Mailiao | 25.5 | 2.0 | 13.2 | 35.4 | Oil and Gas |
| 7 | 609 | Formosa Chemicals | Taipei | 13.5 | 1.6 | 19.2 | 20.6 | Chemicals |
| 8 | 649 | Nan Ya Plastics | Taipei | 11.0 | 1.7 | 18.6 | 19.9 | Chemicals |
| 9 | 758 | Formosa Plastics Corp | Kaohsiung | 7.6 | 1.6 | 16.3 | 22.3 | Chemicals |
| 10 | 773 | China Steel | Kaohsiung | 13.3 | 0.8 | 21.9 | 12.6 | Steel |
| 11 | 807 | Chunghwa Telecom | Taipei | 7.1 | 1.2 | 15.2 | 27.7 | Telecommunication |
| 12 | 824 | Mega Financial Holding | Taipei | 3.2 | 0.9 | 115.2 | 12.4 | Finance |
| 13 | 898 | ASE Group | Kaohsiung | 12.3 | 0.8 | 17.4 | 10.2 | Semiconductor |
| 14 | 939 | Quanta Computer | Taoyuan | 34.1 | 0.5 | 21.5 | 7.6 | Electronics |
| 15 | 983 | Uni-President Enterprises | Tainan | 14.3 | 0.6 | 13.2 | 13.1 | Food processing |
| 16 | 1053 | Shin Kong Financial | Taipei | 13.1 | 0.3 | 118.7 | 3.4 | Insurance |
| 17 | 1054 | MediaTek | Hsinchu | 7.9 | 0.7 | 13.1 | 15.0 | Semiconductor |
| 18 | 1083 | First Financial Holding | Taipei | 2.9 | 0.6 | 95.5 | 8.5 | Banking |
| 19 | 1121 | E.SUN Commercial Bank | Taipei | 2.2 | 0.6 | 74.4 | 8.4 | Banking |
| 20 | 1135 | Taiwan Cooperative Bank | Taipei | 2.6 | 0.5 | 114.1 | 8.1 | Banking |
| 21 | 1170 | China Development Financial | Taipei | 10.4 | 0.3 | 88.4 | 4.7 | Finance |
| 22 | 1200 | Pegatron | Taipei | 44.4 | 0.4 | 19.0 | 5.2 | Electronics |
| 23 | 1222 | Yuanta Financial Holding | Taipei | 4.1 | 0.6 | 74.4 | 6.8 | Finance |
| 24 | 1243 | Delta Electronics | Taipei | 7.9 | 0.6 | 8.5 | 13.6 | Electronics |
| 25 | 1256 | China Life Insurance (Taiwan) | Taipei | 10.0 | 0.3 | 55.7 | 3.3 | Insurance |
| 26 | 1267 | Hua Nan Financial | Taipei | 2.3 | 0.5 | 87.3 | 7.2 | Finance |
| 27 | 1287 | Largan Precision | Taichung | 1.7 | 0.8 | 4.3 | 20.1 | Electronics |
| 28 | 1424 | Shanghai Commercial and Savings Bank | Taipei | 1.7 | 0.5 | 61.6 | 6.4 | Banking |
| 29 | 1463 | Compal Electronics | Taipei | 32.1 | 0.3 | 13.0 | 2.8 | Electronics |
| 30 | 1501 | Chang Hwa Bank | Taichung | 1.6 | 0.4 | 67.7 | 5.8 | Banking |
| 31 | 1513 | Taishin Financial Holdings | Taipei | 1.8 | 0.4 | 58.1 | 4.8 | Finance |
| 32 | 1579 | Wistron | Hsinchu | 29.5 | 0.2 | 11.0 | 2.3 | Electronics |
| 33 | 1684 | Far Eastern New Century | Taipei | 7.6 | 0.4 | 18.4 | 5.5 | Conglomerate |
| 34 | 1690 | Mercuries & Associates | Taipei | 5.6 | 0.0 | 37.8 | 0.4 | Retail |
| 35 | 1741 | Taiwan Business Bank | Taipei | 1.2 | 0.2 | 52.7 | 2.5 | Banking |
| 35 | 1741 | WPG Holdings | Taipei | 18.1 | 0.2 | 6.4 | 2.2 | Electronics |
| 37 | 1749 | Bank SinoPac | Taipei | 1.7 | 0.3 | 52.2 | 4.2 | Banking |
| 38 | 1773 | Inventec | Taipei | 16.8 | 0.2 | 6.7 | 2.9 | Electronics |
| 39 | 1803 | President Chain Store | Taipei | 8.1 | 0.3 | 4.2 | 9.5 | Retail |
| 40 | 1847 | Nanya Technology | Taoyuan | 2.5 | 1.2 | 5.9 | 6.1 | Semiconductor |
| 41 | 1873 | Yageo | New Taipei City | 2.6 | 1.1 | 4.0 | 4.6 | Electronics |
| 42 | 1878 | AU Optronics | Hsinchu | 10.2 | 0.3 | 13.3 | 3.5 | Electronics |
| 43 | 1934 | InnoLux Corporation | Miaoli | 9.3 | 0.1 | 13.4 | 3.2 | Electronics |
| 44 | 1946 | Synnex Technology | Taipei | 12.7 | 0.2 | 4.8 | 2.1 | Electronics |
| 45 | 1961 | Catcher Technology | Tainan | 3.2 | 0.9 | 8.4 | 6.3 | Electronics |
| 46 | 1971 | Asus | Taipei | 11.7 | 0.1 | 11.1 | 5.7 | Electronics |
| 47 | 1990 | Taiwan Cement | Taipei | 4.1 | 0.7 | 11.2 | 6.9 | Construction materials |
References
- "Global 500". Fortune. Retrieved 2019-07-25.
- "The World's Largest Public Companies". Forbes. Retrieved 2019-07-25.