Friday, May 4, 2018

34 Largest US Health Care Manufacturing Corps March 2018 Quarter Total Pretax Income Up a Meager 3% From the March 2018 Quarter, Substantially Lower Than the 38% Total Pretax Income Growth of the Health Insurance Corps and the 44% Pretax Income Growth of the Giant Hospital Chain HCA Healthcare ........................................................................................ These Health Care Manufacturing Companies and Their Employees Have To Be Upset With the Trump Tax Cuts Act's Blatant Unfairness ........................................................................................ And the Health Care Manufacturers Have To Pay a Higher Toll Tax Than Any Other Industry ........................................................................................ So How Much Toll Tax Do These Health Insurance Corps and HCA Healthcare Have To Pay? Not a Dime!

From a review of SEC filings, the below chart shows the US GAAP Pretax Income (Loss) From Continuing Operations, the US GAAP Net Income (Loss) From Continuing Operations and the related US GAAP Income Tax Expense for the March 2018 and 2017 Quarters for all US Health Care Manufacturing Corps with stock market caps above $10 Bil on April 30, 2018 and which have released their March 2018 earnings by May 4, 2018.
 US GAAP   US GAAP   US GAAP   US GAAP 
 US GAAP   US GAAP   Effective   Effective  Pretax Net
US Health Care  US GAAP   Income   US GAAP   US GAAP   Income   US GAAP   Income   Income  Income Income
Manufacturing Corps Pretax Tax Net Pretax Tax Net Tax Tax % Change % Change
Market Caps Above $10 Bil Income Expense Income Income Expense Income Rate Rate March Qtr March Qtr
Releasing Their March 2018 March Qtr March Qtr March Qtr March Qtr March Qtr March Qtr March Qtr March Qtr 2018 2018
Quarter Earnings By 5-4-18 2018 2018 2018 2017 2017 2017 2018 2017 vs 2017 vs 2017
mils $ mils $ mils $ mils $ mils $ mils $
Johnson & Johnson         5,481         1,114         4,367         5,575         1,153         4,422 20.3% 20.7% -2% -1%
Pfizer         4,127            556         3,571         3,951            821         3,130 13.5% 20.8% 4% 14%
AbbVie         2,797              14         2,783         2,086            375         1,711 0.5% 18.0% 34% 63%
Amgen         2,619            308         2,311         2,460            389         2,071 11.8% 15.8% 6% 12%
Gilead Sciences         2,033            494         1,539         3,617            918         2,699 24.3% 25.4% -44% -43%
Bristol-Myers Squibb         1,779            284         1,495         1,955            429         1,526 16.0% 21.9% -9% -2%
Biogen         1,494            323         1,171            987            239            748 21.6% 24.2% 51% 57%
Eli Lilly         1,441            224         1,217              61            172           (111) 15.5% 282.0% 2262% 1196%
Merck         1,345            604            741         2,003            447         1,556 44.9% 22.3% -33% -52%
Celgene         1,030            184            846         1,014              82            932 17.9% 8.1% 2% -9%
Thermo Fisher Scientific            634              55            579            503             (48)            551 8.7% -9.5% 26% 5%
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals            585            107            478            432            183            249 18.3% 42.4% 35% 92%
Stryker            542              99            443            499              55            444 18.3% 11.0% 9% 0%
Baxter Intl            438              49            389            328              55            273 11.2% 16.8% 34% 42%
Abbott Labs            431              22            409            736            350            386 5.1% 47.6% -41% 6%
Zoetis            417              67            350            337              98            239 16.1% 29.1% 24% 46%
Alexion Pharma            352            103            249            194              24            170 29.3% 12.4% 81% 46%
Boston Scientific            323              26            297            305              15            290 8.0% 4.9% 6% 2%
Intuitive Surgical             290                3            287            202              21            181 1.0% 10.4% 44% 59%
Edwards Lifesciences            264              57            207            293              63            230 21.6% 21.5% -10% -10%
Zimmer Biomet            223              47            176            265             (34)            299 21.1% -12.8% -16% -41%
Illumina            221              24            197            503            155            348 10.9% 30.8% -56% -43%
Vertex Pharmaceutical            215             (13)            228            254                4            250 -6.0% 1.6% -15% -9%
Waters Corp            141              29            112            113                8            105 20.6% 7.1% 25% 7%
Resmed            130              20            110            108              20              88 15.4% 18.5% 20% 25%
Idexx Labs            104              15              89              85              16              69 14.4% 18.8% 22% 29%
Align Technologies              99                3              96              62               (7)              69 3.0% -11.3% 60% 39%
Varian Medical              95              22              73              90              21              69 23.2% 23.3% 6% 6%
Teleflex              61                6              55              38               (3)              41 9.8% -7.9% 61% 34%
Abiomed              49              12              37              29              14              15 24.5% 48.3% 69% 147%
Becton Dickinson                6              18             (12)            362              18            344 300.0% 5.0% -98% -103%
Biomarin Pharmaceuticals             (51)               (7)             (44)             (24)               (8)             (16) 13.7% 33.3% -113% -175%
Hologic           (691)             (10)           (681)            968            441            527 1.4% 45.6% -171% -229%
Allergan plc           (966)           (682)           (284)        (3,093)           (532)        (2,561) 70.6% 17.2% 69% 89%
Total all 34       28,058         4,177       23,881       27,298         5,954       21,344 14.9% 21.8% 3% 12%