15 August 2008

Taiwan Tech Index: August 15

Below is a table of the movement of the share prices of companies listed on the TSEC Taiwan Technology Index between the closing price on 8 August and 15 August. Of the 56 companies listed on the TSEC Taiwan Technology Index, 30 went up and 26 went down. Some of the highlights follow.

Increases

Declines

  • ASE - Andvanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) saw a 9.83% decrease in the share price. This reflected a 6% decrease in profit in Q2.

  • Mitac - Mitac shares declined by more than 8% on the week reflecting 48% decline in pretax profits. On Friday (15 August, 2008) their shares dropped a whopping 12.44%..

Interesting

  • Innolux - Innolux Display share prices dropped12% on Thursday (14 August) and 4% (15 August). This after their shares increased almost 6% a day for four days. Their shares still managed to rise 1.35% on the week. The dramatic drop reflected the announcement of flat earnings in Q2.
The table below shows the cha nges

CompanyChange
Compal25.97%
Ritek21.16%
Lite-On13.28%
VIA10.00%
Sunplus9.12%
Novatek8.18%
Micro-Star7.61%
Kinsus6.94%
Lite-On IT6.39%
Cybertan5.81%
Mosel5.50%
Clevo4.95%
CMC4.62%
Chi Mei4.24%
Qisda3.78%
King Yuan3.58%
Realtek3.13%
Hon Hai3.07%
Winbond3.07%
Advantech3.01%
HTC2.81%
Formosa Advanced2.67%
Transcend2.58%
Greatek2.53%
Chicony2.52%
Faraday2.39%
Ali2.23%
Macronix1.84%
Chunghwa1.65%
Elan1.38%
InnoLux1.35%
AUO1.33%
Powertech1.01%
Foxconn0.92%
Acer0.62%
Inventec0.58%
Global0.45%
TSMC0.17%
Wistron-0.41%
D-Link-0.82%
Nanya-0.85%
HannStar-0.98%
MediaTek-1.11%
Quanta-1.29%
Zinwell-1.42%
Tatung-1.71%
Compal-2.03%
UMC-2.20%
Elitegroup-2.53%
Asustek-2.76%
SPIL-2.85%
Synnex-3.86%
Inotera-4.21%
Richtek-5.02%
Zyxel-6.39%
WPG-6.49%
Mitac-8.21%
ASE-9.83%

Method of calculation. The movement is calculated by finding the difference between the previous week's Friday close and this week's Friday close and then dividing the difference by the previous week's Friday close and multiplying by 100 to get a percentage. All closing figures are taken from Yahoo Finance.

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