The 55 Largest US Technology Corps With March 2018 or April 2018 Quarter Ends and Which Have Reported Their Quarterly Earnings By May 10, 2018 Generated March or April 2018 Quarter Total Pretax Income of $65.280 Bil, Up 31% From Their Prior Year's Quarter and Their Total Net Income Was Up a Much Higher 49% ........................................................................................ Of These 55 Largest US Techs, 37 of Them are Software and Services Corps and Their Quarterly Total Pretax Earnings Were Up a Superb 49% and Their Total Net Income Was Up a Blistering 73% ........................................................................................ And of These 55 Largest US Techs, 18 of Them are Tech Manufacturing Corps and Their Quarterly Total Pretax Earnings Were Up 13% and Their Total Net Income Was Up a Much Higher 27%

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 Technology Corps with market caps above $10 Bil on April 30, 2018 and which have released their March 2018 or April 2018 quarter earnings by May 10, 2018.

									US GAAP	US GAAP		US GAAP	US GAAP
		US GAAP				US GAAP			Effective	Effective		Pretax	Net
	US GAAP	Income	US GAAP		US GAAP	Income	US GAAP		Income	Income		Income	Income
	Pretax	Tax	Net		Pretax	Tax	Net		Tax	Tax		% Change	% Change
US Technology Company	Income	Expense	Income		Income	Expense	Income		Rate	Rate		March or	March or
With Market Caps > $10 Bil	March or	March or	March or		March or	March or	March or		March or	March or		April Qtr	April Qtr
Releasing Mar or Apr 2018	April Qtr	April Qtr	April Qtr		April Qtr	April Qtr	April Qtr		April Qtr	April Qtr		2018	2018
Qtr Earnings Through 5-10-18	2018	2018	2018		2017	2017	2017		2018	2017		vs 2017	vs 2017
	mils $	mils $	mils $		mils $	mils $	mils $
Software & Services
Alphabet	10,543	1,142	9,401		6,819	1,393	5,426		10.8%	20.4%		55%	73%
Microsoft	8,641	1,217	7,424		7,094	1,608	5,486		14.1%	22.7%		22%	35%
Facebook	5,610	622	4,988		3,408	344	3,064		11.1%	10.1%		65%	63%
Visa	3,217	612	2,605		2,702	2,272	430		19.0%	84.1%		19%	506%
Amazon.com	1,916	287	1,629		953	229	724		15.0%	24.0%		101%	125%
Mastercard	1,803	311	1,492		1,478	397	1,081		17.2%	26.9%		22%	38%
Electronic Arts	754	147	607		716	150	566		19.5%	20.9%		5%	7%
Booking Holdings	753	146	607		528	72	456		19.4%	13.6%		43%	33%
Cognizant Technology	697	177	520		649	92	557		25.4%	14.2%		7%	-7%
Activision Blizzard	567	67	500		453	27	426		11.8%	6.0%		25%	17%
PayPal Holdings	548	37	511		438	54	384		6.8%	12.3%		25%	33%
eBay	547	140	407		558	(477)	1,035		25.6%	NM		-2%	-61%
Netflix	300	9	291		224	46	178		3.0%	20.5%		34%	63%
CA Inc	243	36	207		198	41	157		14.8%	20.7%		23%	32%
Check Point Software	228	41	187		221	39	182		18.0%	17.6%		3%	3%
CDW Corp	166	39	127		74	16	58		23.5%	21.6%		124%	119%
Verisk Analytics	162	29	133		161	52	109		17.9%	32.3%		1%	22%
First Data Corp	161	27	134		91	12	79		16.8%	13.2%		77%	70%
Verisign	152	18	134		148	31	117		11.8%	20.9%		3%	15%
Citrix Systems	151	7	144		120	50	70		4.6%	41.7%		26%	106%
Ansys	97	13	84		85	22	63		13.4%	25.9%		14%	33%
Match Group	87	(13)	100		34	9	25		-14.9%	26.5%		156%	300%
Cadence Design Systems	78	5	73		74	6	68		6.4%	8.1%		5%	7%
Akamai Technologies	68	14	54		32	5	27		20.6%	15.6%		113%	100%
Twitter	64	3	61		(58)	3	(61)		4.7%	NM		210%	200%
SS&C Technologies	62	11	51		58	10	48		17.7%	17.2%		7%	6%
IAC/Interactive	59	(29)	88		4	(24)	28		-49.2%	-600.0%		1375%	214%
CoStar Group	56	4	52		35	13	22		7.1%	37.1%		60%	136%
Black Knight	55	12	43		40	6	34		21.8%	15.0%		38%	26%
GoDaddy	4	-	4		(2)	1	(3)		0.0%	-50.0%		300%	233%
ServiceNow	(7)	(18)	11		(23)	(1)	(22)		257.1%	4.3%		70%	150%
Atlassian Corp	(8)	6	(14)		(23)	(5)	(18)		-75.0%	21.7%		-65%	22%
Square Inc	(24)	-	(24)		(15)	-	(15)		0.0%	0.0%		-60%	-60%
Symantec	(61)	(27)	(34)		(248)	(71)	(177)		44.3%	28.6%		75%	81%
Expedia	(169)	(20)	(149)		(131)	(47)	(84)		11.8%	35.9%		-29%	-77%
Snap	(384)	2	(386)		(2,212)	(3)	(2,209)		-0.5%	0.1%		83%	83%
Dropbox	(464)	2	(466)		(33)	-	(33)		-0.4%	0.0%		-1306%	-1312%
Total all 37 Software&Services	36,672	5,076	31,596		24,650	6,372	18,278		13.8%	25.8%		49%	73%
Manufacturing
Apple	16,168	2,346	13,822		14,684	3,655	11,029		14.5%	24.9%		10%	25%
Intel	5,011	557	4,454		3,815	851	2,964		11.1%	22.3%		31%	50%
Texas Instruments	1,553	187	1,366		1,255	258	997		12.0%	20.6%		24%	37%
NVIDIA	1,311	67	1,244		536	29	507		5.1%	5.4%		145%	145%
International Business Machines	1,136	(540)	1,676		1,424	(329)	1,753		-47.5%	-23.1%		-20%	-4%
Lam Research	772	(7)	779		531	44	487		-0.9%	8.3%		45%	60%
Seagate Technology	393	12	381		212	18	194		3.1%	8.5%		85%	96%
KLA-Tencor	366	59	307		319	66	253		16.1%	20.7%		15%	21%
QUALCOMM	358	(5)	363		857	108	749		-1.4%	12.6%		-58%	-52%
Amphenol	355	86	269		298	71	227		24.2%	23.8%		19%	19%
Skyworks Solutions	292	16	276		281	56	225		5.5%	19.9%		4%	23%
Maxim Integrated Products	222	29	193		170	30	140		13.1%	17.6%		31%	38%
Microchip Technology	188	41	147		72	(65)	137		21.8%	-90.3%		161%	7%
Xilinx	186	20	166		171	18	153		10.8%	10.5%		9%	8%
Arista Networks	143	(2)	145		74	(9)	83		-1.4%	-12.2%		93%	75%
IPG Photonics	142	36	106		101	26	75		25.4%	25.7%		41%	41%
Motorola Solutions	140	23	117		120	42	78		16.4%	35.0%		17%	50%
Western Digital	(128)	(189)	61		304	56	248		147.7%	18.4%		-142%	-75%
Total all 18 Manufacturing	28,608	2,736	25,872		25,224	4,925	20,299		9.6%	19.5%		13%	27%
Total all 55 Tech	65,280	7,812	57,468		49,874	11,297	38,577		12.0%	22.7%		31%	49%