Friday, June 29, 2012

Massachusetts Smaller Corp 2011 Annual Earnings Up 298% Since 2009 Under Obama: Updated

There were 54 Massachusetts headquartered Corps, with Pretax Income or Pretax Loss of $100 mil or more in any of the most recent three years, and which file with the SEC.

These 54 Largest Massachusetts Corps generated Total Pretax Income in 2011 which was 48% higher than that of two years earlier in 2009.

Now I wanted to see if these strong earnings also applied to the even smaller Massachusetts Corps, which file with the SEC.

I found 68 Massachusetts headquartered Smaller Corps filing with the SEC, which had Pretax Income or Pretax Loss of $20 mil or more in any of the most recent three years, and which weren't included in the 54 Largest Massachusetts Corps.  Thus, these 68 Smaller Massachusetts Corps also did not have Pretax Income or Pretax Loss of $100 mil or more in any of the most recent three years.  I used a lower $20 mil Pretax Income and Pretax Loss threshold in order to make sure the number of companies here are of sufficient size to be able to reach a valid conclusion.   

How did they do?  Well, these 68 Smaller Massachusetts Corps generated total earnings growth in the most recent two years of an off-the-charts 298%, or more than 6 Times the 47% total earnings growth of the 54 Largest Massachusetts Corps.

Clearly, Massachusetts citizens should be very proud of their many superb Massachusetts companies, of all sizes.

And yeah, the Obama Administration created a very robust US economic environment, which permitted these exceptional Massachusetts companies of all sizes to do just fantastically on the earnings front in the most recent two years.

In deriving Pretax Income, I start with Pretax Income under Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), and then exclude several clearly unusual very large items relative to Pretax Income, such as Asset Impairments, and Gains and Losses on both Debt Retirements and Asset Dispositions.

I use Pretax Income rather than After-tax Net Income, since so much of the change in effective income tax rates just happens due to financial engineering.

I excluded Corps in the Development Stage, and ones lacking significant reported revenues.

Below here is the Pretax Income (PTI) or Pretax Loss of each of these 54 Largest and 68 Smaller Massachusetts Corporations for each of the most recent three fiscal years, along with the related percentage changes in earnings.






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Change Change Change


PTI(L) PTI(L) PTI(L) 2011 2010 2011

Massachusetts 2011 2010 2009 vs vs vs
HQs mils $s mils $s mils $s 2010 2009 2009
Massachusetts Largest Corps






EMC Hopkinton 3,249 2,608 1,375 25% 90% 136%
Raytheon Waltham 2,690 2,827 2,930 -5% -4% -8%
State Street Corp Boston 2,536 2,086 2,525 22% -17% 0%
TJX Framingham 2,411 2,164 1,952 11% 11% 24%
Covidien Ltd Boston Area 2,216 1,926 1,807 15% 7% 23%
Biogen IDEC Weston 1,711 1,475 1,333 16% 11% 28%
Staples Framingham 1,459 1,357 1,156 8% 17% 26%
Thermo Fisher Scientific Waltham 1,127 1,106 880 2% 26% 28%
Analog Devices Norwood 1,061 902 297 18% 204% 257%
American Tower Boston 638 556 421 15% 32% 52%
Boston Scientifc Natick 630 465 714 35% -35% -12%
Waters Corp Milford 509 438 387 16% 13% 32%
Affiliated Managers Prides Crossing 453 379 246 20% 54% 84%
Iron Mountain Boston 400 420 345 -5% 22% 16%
Eaton Vance Boston 384 327 207 17% 58% 86%
Boston Properties Boston 314 278 263 13% 6% 19%
Akamai Technologies Cambridge 307 262 237 17% 11% 30%
Skyworks Solutions Woburn 294 195 70 51% 179% 320%
CYS Investments Waltham 292 22 64 1227% -66% 356%
LPL Investment Boston 283 (51) 73 655% -170% 288%
TripAdvisor Newton 272 224 167 21% 34% 63%
Teradyne North Reading 219 389 (144) -44% 370% 252%
Hospitality Properties Newton 208 193 148 8% 30% 41%
Cabot Corp Boston 203 166 (99) 22% 268% 305%
Cubist Pharmaceuticals Lexington 197 154 120 28% 28% 64%
Sensata Technologies Boston Area 195 125 (71) 56% 276% 375%
Medical Information Technology Westwood 192 170 127 13% 34% 51%
MKS Instruments Andover 186 196 (27) -5% 826% 789%
Clean Harbors Norwell 185 184 61 1% 202% 203%
Momenta Pharmaceuticals Cambridge 180 37 (64) 386% 158% 381%
IPG Photonics Oxford 175 79 8 122% 888% 2088%
Hologic Bedford 172 165 190 4% -13% -9%
Bruker Billerica 146 150 129 -3% 16% 13%
Senior Housing Properties Newton 145 129 129 12% 0% 12%
Charles River Labs Wilmington 133 92 152 45% -39% -13%
Entegris Billerica 128 101 (60) 27% 268% 313%
Hittite Microwave Chelmsford 122 119 70 3% 70% 74%
Dunkin Brands Canton 121 81 74 49% 9% 64%
Unifirst Wilmington 121 123 126 -2% -2% -4%
Sapient Boston 111 68 44 63% 55% 152%
Haemonetics Braintree 110 97 85 13% 14% 29%
ParametricTechnology Needham 105 82 17 28% 382% 518%
Watts Water Technologies North Andover 101 95 72 6% 32% 40%
Brooks Automation Chelmsford 83 56 (119) 48% 147% 170%
OneBeacon Insurance Canton 83 139 508 -40% -73% -84%
PerkinElmer Waltham 64 166 100 -61% 66% -36%
LTX-Credence Norwood 60 18 (137) 233% 113% 144%
Vertex Pharmaceuticals Cambridge 60 (755) (642) 108% -18% 109%
Hanover Insurance Group Worcester 22 211 271 -90% -22% -92%
Aspen Technology Burlington (44) (101) 54 56% -287% -181%
Ariad Pharmaceuticals Cambridge (77) 105 (72) -173% 246% -7%
Talbot's Hingham (104) 39 (29) -367% 234% -259%
American Superconductor Devens (110) (17) 37 -547% -146% -397%
First Marblehead Boston (219) (216) (551) -1% 61% 60%








Total all 54 Largest Corps
26,509 22,606 17,956 17% 26% 48%








Massachusetts Smaller Corps






Beacon Roofing Supply Peabody 90 55 86 64% -36% 5%
Progress Software Bedford 88 71 51 24% 39% 73%
Cognex Natick 87 76 (10) 14% 860% 970%
Boston Beer Boston 83 81 54 2% 50% 54%
Acme Packet Bedford 74 67 19 10% 253% 289%
Independent Bank Rockland 63 52 42 21% 24% 50%
Commonwealth REIT Newton 62 12 62 417% -81% 0%
Atlantic Broadband Finance Quincy 60 46 39 30% 18% 54%
Parexel International Waltham 59 63 64 -6% -2% -8%
American Renal Holdings Beverly 58 38 37 53% 3% 57%
iRobot Bedford 54 34 5 59% 580% 980%
Yankee Holding South Deerfield 54 66 41 -18% 61% 32%
Boston Private Financial Boston 51 (32) 18 259% -278% 183%
NetScout Systems Westford 51 56 43 -9% 30% 19%
Circor International Burlington 50 46 57 9% -19% -12%
Brookline Bancorp Brookline 49 47 33 4% 42% 48%
Altra Holdings Braintree 48 35 (5) 37% 800% 1060%
Zoll Medical Chelmsford 48 28 13 71% 115% 269%
Government Properties Income Trust Newton 46 32 26 44% 23% 77%
Ameresco Framingham 45 41 27 10% 52% 67%
M/A-Com Technology Solutions Lowell 45 16 (23) 181% 170% 296%
Aspect Software Group Chelmsford 43 37 39 16% -5% 10%
Atlantic Tele Network Beverly 42 44 75 -5% -41% -44%
Forrester Research Cambridge 39 34 34 15% 0% 15%
Kadant Westford 38 24 (2) 58% 1300% 2000%
Monotype Imaging Holdings Woburn 35 27 21 30% 29% 67%
Athena Health Watertown 33 23 18 43% 28% 83%
American Science & Engineering Billerica 32 65 55 -51% 18% -42%
GSI Group Bedford 32 36 (41) -11% 188% 178%
Aveo Pharmaceutics Cambridge 31 (59) (44) 153% -34% 170%
Nuance Communications Burlington 30 (1) 21 3100% -105% 43%
CRA International Boston 28 6 13 367% -54% 115%
Mercury Computer Systems Chelmsford 27 19 8 42% 138% 238%
Virtusa Westborough 26 18 13 44% 38% 100%
TravelCenters of America Newton 25 (67) (89) 137% 25% 128%
NewStar Financial Boston 24 11 (70) 118% 116% 134%
Analogic Peabody 21 21 (2) 0% 1150% 1150%
Dynamics Research Andover 20 20 17 0% 18% 18%
Berkshire Hills Bancorp Pittsfield 19 16 (32) 19% 150% 159%
Global Partners Waltham 19 27 36 -30% -25% -47%
Meridian Interstate Bancorp East Boston 19 21 6 -10% 250% 217%
Five Star Quality Care Newton 18 27 8 -33% 238% 125%
Franklin Street Properties Wakefield 18 17 27 6% -37% -33%
Safety Insurance Boston 14 79 74 -82% 7% -81%
Vicor Andover 14 30 5 -53% 500% 180%
LS Starrett Atholma 12 (8) (33) 250% 76% 136%
Pegasystems Cambridge 11 0 47 NM -100% -77%
Smith & Wesson Springfield 8 47 19 -83% 147% -58%
Axcelis Technologies Beverly 7 (17) (77) 141% 78% 109%
Lantheus Medical Imaging North Billerica 6 24 46 -75% -48% -87%
Abiomed Danvers 2 (11) (25) 118% 56% 108%
Helicos Biosciences Cambridge (6) (21) (28) 71% 25% 79%
Arqule Woburn (11) (31) (36) 65% 14% 69%
NxStage Medical Lawrence (21) (31) (43) 32% 28% 51%
Avid Technology Burlington (23) (42) (70) 45% 40% 67%
Idera Pharmaceuticals Cambridge (26) (18) 7 -44% -357% -471%
Alere Waltham (27) 6 53 -550% -89% -151%
Infinity Pharmaceuticals Cambridge (40) (50) (32) 20% -56% -25%
Zalicus Cambridge (43) (7) (21) -514% 67% -105%
Celldex Therapeutics Needham (45) (3) (37) -1400% 92% -22%
Synta Pharmaceuticals Lexington (47) (37) 79 -27% -147% -159%
Idenix Pharmaceuticals Cambridge (52) (62) (53) 16% -17% 2%
Insulet Bedford (57) (61) (72) 7% 15% 21%
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Cambridge (58) (43) (47) -35% 9% -23%
Immunogen Waltham (58) (51) (32) -14% -59% -81%
Ironwood Pharmaceuticals Cambridge (65) (59) (60) -10% 2% -8%
Amag Pharmaceuticals Lexington (78) (82) (95) 5% 14% 18%
Merrimack Pharmaceuticals Cambridge (80) (50) (52) -60% 4% -54%








Total all 68 Smaller Corps
1,221 798 307 53% 160% 298%