Eleven of these 95 Massachusetts Companies have Stock Market Capitalizations now of more than $20 bil. The Total Audited Earnings of these 11 have been on fire in the two most recent years, with 2014 Audited Earnings up 60% over 2012, as you can see in the below chart:
2014 | 2013 | 2012 | |||
2014 | Audited | Audited | Audited | ||
Most | Net | Net | Net | ||
Recent | Income | Income | Income | ||
Massachusetts Company | HQs | FYE | (Loss) | (Loss) | (Loss) |
mil $s | mil $s | mil $s | |||
Biogen Idec | Cambridge | Dec | 2,942 | 1,862 | 1,380 |
EMC Corp | Hopkinton | Dec | 2,894 | 3,093 | 2,886 |
Thermo Fisher Scientific | Waltham | Dec | 1,896 | 1,279 | 1,258 |
Covidien plc | Mansfield | Sep | 1,662 | 1,600 | 1,637 |
TJX Companies | Framingham | Jan 15 | 2,215 | 2,137 | 1,907 |
American Tower | Boston | Dec | 803 | 482 | 594 |
State Street Corp | Boston | Dec | 2,037 | 2,136 | 2,061 |
Raytheon | Waltham | Dec | 2,193 | 1,949 | 1,901 |
Vertex Pharmaceuticals | Cambridge | Dec | (742) | (504) | 32 |
Boston Scientific | Natick | Dec | (119) | (121) | (4,068) |
Analog Devices | Norwood | Oct | 629 | 673 | 651 |
Total all 11 | 16,410 | 14,586 | 10,239 | ||
Earnings Increase 2014 Over 2013 | 13% | ||||
Earnings Increase 2014 Over 2012 | 60% |
There are a very large number of 84 Somewhat Smaller Massachusetts Companies with Stock Market Capitalizations now of between $1 bil and $20 bil.
So just how have these 84 Somewhat Smaller Massachusetts Companies done on the earnings front before, during and after the 2008 financial meltdown? Just spectacular off-the-charts earnings improvement.
The Total Audited Net Income from Continuing Operations of these 84 Somewhat Smaller Massachusetts Companies for the 3 years 2012-14 Combined was $11.968 bil, an increase of an incredibly off-the-charts 3,795% over the $0.307 bil comparable Total Earnings in the 3 years 2008-2010 Combined.
So if the question to answer is how much better off are these Somewhat Smaller Massachusetts Companies recently than they were during their five-year earlier 2008-2010 fiscal years, the answer is 38 times better, or $11.7 bil better, as audited earnings under US generally accepted accounting principles (US GAAP) are measured by the very prestigious US accounting profession.
There has been something upwardly explosive happening with the Audited Earnings of the many Somewhat Smaller Massachusetts Companies and among others, President Obama, Former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, Massachusetts US Senators Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey, Massachusetts US Democratic House Members Richard Neal, James McGovern, Niki Tsongas, Joseph Kennedy, Katherine Clark, Seth Moulton, Michael Capuano, Stephen Lynch and William Keating, and the US Fed have all undoubtedly helped here.
Below here are the reported US GAAP Audited Net Income (Losses) of each of these 84 Somewhat Smaller Massachusetts Companies for all of their fiscal years reported from 2008 through 2014:
2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | |||
2014 | Audited | Audited | Audited | Audited | Audited | Audited | Audited | ||
Most | Net | Net | Net | Net | Net | Net | Net | ||
Recent | Income | Income | Income | Income | Income | Income | Income | ||
Massachusetts Company | HQs | FYE | (Loss) | (Loss) | (Loss) | (Loss) | (Loss) | (Loss) | (Loss) |
Smaller Companies | mil $s | mil $s | mil $s | mil $s | mil $s | mil $s | mil $s | ||
Skyworks Solutions | Wobum | Sep | 458 | 278 | 202 | 227 | 137 | 93 | 111 |
Boston Properties | Boston | Dec | 358 | 704 | 285 | 314 | 188 | 263 | 131 |
Akamai Technologies | Cambridge | Dec | 334 | 293 | 204 | 201 | 171 | 146 | 145 |
Affiliated Managers Group | Prides Crossing | Dec | 786 | 670 | 411 | 360 | 287 | 213 | 132 |
Waters Corp | Milford | Dec | 432 | 450 | 461 | 433 | 382 | 323 | 322 |
TripAdvisor | Newton | Dec | 226 | 205 | 195 | 178 | 139 | 102 | 72 |
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals | Cambridge | Dec | (360) | (89) | (106) | (58) | (44) | (48) | (26) |
Staples | Framingham | Jan | 135 | 707 | (161) | 983 | 889 | 757 | 814 |
Hologic | Bedford | Sep | 17 | (1,173) | (74) | 157 | (63) | (2,217) | (416) |
Sensata Technologies | Attleboro | Dec | 284 | 188 | 177 | 6 | 130 | (27) | (114) |
Synageva BioPharma | Lexington | Dec | (193) | (95) | (43) | (25) | (11) | (11) | (22) |
Iron Mountain | Boston | Dec | 329 | 100 | 183 | 246 | 167 | 232 | 82 |
bluebird bio | Cambridge | Dec | (49) | (25) | (24) | (16) | |||
PerkinElmer | Waltham | Dec | 161 | 174 | 71 | 1 | 139 | 73 | 45 |
Nuance Communications | Burlington | Sep | (150) | (115) | 207 | 38 | (19) | (12) | (30) |
Dunkin Brands Group | Canton | Dec | 176 | 146 | 108 | 34 | 27 | 35 | (270) |
IPG Photonics | Oxford | Dec | 200 | 156 | 148 | 121 | 54 | 5 | 39 |
PTC Inc | Needham | Sep | 160 | 144 | (35) | 85 | 24 | 32 | 80 |
Eaton Vance | Boston | Oct | 321 | 230 | 265 | 228 | 201 | 136 | 203 |
Agios Pharmaceuticals | Cambridge | Dec | (54) | (39) | (20) | (24) | |||
athenahealth | Watertown | Dec | (3) | 3 | 19 | 19 | 13 | 9 | 32 |
Teradyne | North Reading | Dec | 81 | 165 | 217 | 344 | 375 | (134) | (395) |
Hospitality Properties Trust | Newton | Dec | 197 | 133 | 152 | 190 | 21 | 193 | 124 |
Senior Housing Properties Trust | Newton | Dec | 156 | 146 | 132 | 151 | 116 | 110 | 107 |
LPL Financial Holdings | Boston | Dec | 178 | 182 | 152 | 170 | (57) | 48 | 45 |
Cognex | Natick | Dec | 121 | 74 | 68 | 70 | 61 | (5) | 30 |
Alere | Waltham | Dec | (176) | (56) | (45) | 268 | (41) | 32 | (21) |
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | Boston | Dec | (111) | (111) | (236) | (2,182) | (820) | (2,145) | (1,462) |
Aspen Technology | Burlington | Jun | 86 | 45 | (14) | 10 | (107) | 53 | 25 |
PAREXEL Intl | Waltham | Jun | 129 | 96 | 63 | 49 | 42 | 39 | 65 |
Dyax | Burlington | Dec | (12) | (28) | (29) | (35) | (25) | (62) | (66) |
Bright Horizons Family Solutions | Watertown | Dec | 72 | 12 | 9 | 5 | (10) | (10) | (7) |
Charles River Laboratories | Wilmington | Dec | 130 | 105 | 102 | 116 | (334) | 111 | (528) |
Bruker | Billerica | Dec | 60 | 82 | 78 | 94 | 97 | 81 | 65 |
Boston Beer | Boston | Dec | 91 | 70 | 59 | 66 | 50 | 31 | 8 |
Clean Harbors | Norwell | Dec | (28) | 96 | 130 | 131 | 37 | 35 | 57 |
The Hanover Insurance Group | Worcester | Dec | 282 | 246 | 46 | 32 | 153 | 188 | 85 |
Wayfair | Boston | Dec | (148) | (16) | (21) | (11) | |||
Endurance Intl Group Hldgs | Burlington | Dec | (51) | (160) | (139) | (78) | (44) | ||
Cabot Corp | Boston | Sep | 216 | 161 | 202 | 205 | 143 | (73) | 86 |
ABIOMED | Danvers | Mar 15 | 114 | 7 | 15 | 1 | (12) | (19) | (32) |
Celldex Therapeutics | Needham | Dec | (118) | (82) | (59) | (45) | (3) | (37) | (48) |
Demandware | Burlington | Dec | (27) | (18) | (4) | (1) | 0 | (10) | (25) |
TESARO | Waltham | Dec | (171) | (92) | (62) | (16) | (9) | ||
UniFirst | Wilmington | Aug | 120 | 117 | 95 | 76 | 76 | 76 | 61 |
Haemonetics | Braintree | Mar | 17 | 35 | 39 | 67 | 80 | 58 | 59 |
AMAG Pharmaceuticals | Lexington | Dec | 136 | (10) | (17) | (77) | (81) | (93) | (72) |
M/A-COM Technology Solutions | Lowell | Sep | (11) | 18 | (4) | (2) | 7 | 4 | (6) |
MKS Instruments | Andover | Dec | 116 | 36 | 48 | 130 | 133 | (149) | 40 |
Select Income REIT | Newton | Dec | 106 | 93 | 66 | 69 | 61 | 58 | 52 |
Sage Therapeutics | Cambridge | Dec | (34) | (18) | (10) | ||||
Entegris | Billerica | Dec | 8 | 75 | 69 | 124 | 85 | (58) | (516) |
Ironwood Pharmaceutical | Cambridge | Dec | (190) | (273) | (73) | (65) | (56) | (60) | (47) |
Watts Water Technologies | North Hanover | Dec | 50 | 61 | 70 | 65 | 63 | 41 | 45 |
Radius Health | Cambridge | Dec | (62) | (61) | (69) | (42) | (15) | (15) | (22) |
Insulet | Bedford | Dec | (52) | (45) | (52) | (57) | (61) | (72) | (95) |
Pegasystems | Cambridge | Dec | 33 | 38 | 22 | 10 | (6) | 32 | 11 |
Ariad Pharmaceuticals | Cambridge | Dec | (163) | (274) | (221) | (124) | 85 | (80) | (71) |
HubSpot | Cambridge | Dec | (48) | (34) | (19) | (24) | (13) | (9) | |
LogMein | Woburn | Dec | 8 | (7) | 4 | 6 | 21 | 9 | (5) |
NetScout Systems | Westford | Mar 15 | 61 | 49 | 41 | 32 | 37 | 28 | 20 |
Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals | Watertown | Dec | (67) | (30) | (15) | (22) | (17) | ||
Press Ganey Holdings | Wakefield | Dec | 16 | 0 | (7) | ||||
Momenta Pharmaceuticals | Cambridge | Dec | (99) | (108) | (59) | 180 | 37 | (64) | (63) |
Virtusa | Westborough | Mar 15 | 42 | 34 | 28 | 20 | 16 | 12 | 12 |
STAG Industrial | Boston | Dec | (5) | 0 | (8) | (10) | (3) | (6) | (8) |
Progress Software | Bedford | Nov | 49 | 40 | 45 | 59 | 49 | 33 | 46 |
CYS Investments | Waltham | Dec | 426 | (476) | 373 | 292 | 22 | 64 | (39) |
Government Properties Income Trust | Newton | Dec | 53 | 56 | 49 | 46 | 28 | 26 | 32 |
ZIOPHARM Oncology | Boston | Dec | (32) | (57) | (96) | (64) | (33) | (8) | (25) |
Merrimack Pharmaceuticals | Cambridge | Dec | (84) | (131) | (91) | (80) | (50) | (49) | (46) |
Global partners LP | Waltham | Dec | 117 | 41 | 47 | 19 | 27 | 34 | 21 |
ImmunoGen | Waltham | Jun | (71) | (73) | (73) | (58) | (51) | (32) | (32) |
Repligen | Waltham | Dec | 8 | 16 | 14 | (0) | (4) | 6 | 37 |
Independent Bank | Rockland | Dec | 60 | 50 | 43 | 45 | 40 | 23 | 24 |
Foundation Medicine | Cambridge | Dec | (52) | (43) | (22) | (17) | |||
Franklin Street Properties | Wakefield | Dec | 13 | 17 | 23 | 18 | 17 | 27 | 32 |
Sarepta Therapeutics | Cambridge | Dec | (136) | (112) | (121) | (2) | (32) | (25) | (24) |
Boston Private Financial | Boston | Dec | 67 | 67 | 49 | 36 | (12) | 16 | (193) |
Atlantic Tele-Network | Beverly | Dec | 58 | 37 | 53 | 22 | 38 | 37 | 40 |
Acceleron Pharmaceutical | Cambridge | Dec | (51) | (22) | (33) | 36 | |||
Analogic Corp | Peabody | July | 34 | 31 | 43 | 17 | 16 | 4 | 23 |
Karyopharm Therapeutics | Natick | Dec | (76) | (34) | (16) | (10) | |||
Medical Information Technology | Westwood | Dec | 124 | 133 | 131 | 124 | 109 | 82 | 36 |
Total all 84 With Market Cap Between $1 bil and $20 bil | 5,128 | 3,205 | 3,635 | 3,881 | 3,057 | (1,520) | (1,230) | ||
Three Years Total Earnings | |||||||||
….. 2012-2014 | 11,968 | ||||||||
….. 2008-2010 | 307 | ||||||||
………. 3 Year Earnings Increase | |||||||||
…………… Amount | 11,661 | ||||||||
…………… % | 3,795% |
On the job front, the US Bureau of Labor reported that the unemployment rate for the State of Massachusetts has dropped sharply from 8.8% in January 2010 to 4.7% in the most recently reported April 2015.
Also, the US Bureau of Labor reported that the unemployment rate for the Boston-Cambridge-Nashua Metro Area has dropped even more sharply from 8.6% in January 2010 to only 3.8% in the most recently reported April 2015.