[Infostock Daily= Reporter Park Hyo-sun] The market capitalization ranking of the top 100 companies in Korea has changed significantly.
While traditional manufacturing rankings have fallen sharply, bio companies have made a big leap.
26th according to the Korea CXO Research Institute, which specializes in corporate analysis on the 26th, the market capitalization of the 100 largest companies in Korea fell 8.5% from 1182 trillion won (January 2) to 1082 trillion won (May 22).
Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix's market capitalization fell 11.7% and 14.1%, respectively.
As of the 22nd, Samsung Electronics' market capitalization was 291 trillion won and SK Hynix was 59.1865 trillion won.
Samsung Bio Logics' market capitalization, the third-largest company in the same period, increased from 28 trillion won to 40 trillion won, narrowing the gap with SK Hynix to about 18 trillion won.
Samsung SDI, LG Household&Health Care, and Kakao entered the top 10 market cap.
On the other hand, Hyundai Mobis, POSCO, and Samsung C & T were out of the top 10.
KCC, Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering, Korean Air, Hanmi Science, Cheil Worldwide, GS E & C and Pan Ocean were out of the top 100.
Bio companies such as Seegene, Celltrion Pharmaceutical, and Altiozen, and companies in secondary battery and non-face-to-face information and communication (IT) stocks such as Ecoprobm and Iljin Materials, entered the top 100.
Reporter Park Hyo-sun hs1351@infostock.co.kr