Statistics | Local business capital surges 87.4 percent

Government data released last week indicated that registered capital, the amount of capital available to shareholders, significantly increased by 87.4 percent year-on-year to a total of MOP 377 million for the third quarter of 2015. The registered capital of companies in the business services industry, which makes up a majority of Macau’s total capital, soared by 260.1 percent to a total of MOP 293 million.
Meanwhile, the number of companies in dissolution during the third quarter of 2015 totaled 150, with the value of their registered capital amounting to MOP 127 million.
Analyzed by registered capital, there were 881 new companies with capital under MOP50,000, with a combined total capital of MOP23 million. In addition, there were 22 new companies registered in the third quarter of 2015 with capital of MOP1 million or over, down from 30 new companies in the previous quarter. The total value of the 22 new companies amounted to MOP316 million and 83.8 percent of the newly registered capital.
During this third quarter, most of the capital of new companies has come from mainland China (MOP181 million) and Macau (MOP77 million).  Further, there were 834 new companies established solely by Macau shareholders, and 126 joint ventures between shareholders from Macau and those from other countries or regions.