These US Technology Cos Total Pretax Income Grew By an Exceptional 36% in the First Quarter of 2018 Over the First Quarter of 2017
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These Same US Technology Cos Total Pretax Income Grew By a Very Robust But Decelerated 30% in the Second Quarter of 2018 Over the Second Quarter of 2017
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These Same US Technology Cos Total Pretax Income Grew By a Robust But Even More Decelerated 23% in the Third Quarter of 2018 Over the Third Quarter of 2017
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And Given How the World Economy is Slowing Down, Coupled With the Continued and Even Accelerating Diminished Status of the US in the Past Two Years in Many Parts of the World, These Same US Technology Cos Huge Total Pretax Income Growth Deceleration Should Continue Unabated in the Current Fourth Quarter of 2018 vs the Fourth Quarter of 2017
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GAAP | GAAP | GAAP | GAAP | GAAP | GAAP | |||||||
Pretax | Pretax | Pretax | Pretax | Pretax | Pretax | |||||||
Income | Income | Income | Income | Income | Income | |||||||
(Loss) | (Loss) | (Loss) | (Loss) | (Loss) | (Loss) | |||||||
Sept | Sept | June | June | Mar | Mar | |||||||
Oct | Oct | July | July | Apr | Apr | |||||||
or Nov | or Nov | Better | or Aug | or Aug | Better | or May | or May | Better | ||||
US | 2018 | 2017 | (Worse) | 2018 | 2017 | (Worse) | 2018 | 2017 | (Worse) | |||
State | US Technology Companies | Quarter | Quarter | % | Quarter | Quarter | % | Quarter | Quarter | % | ||
HQs | Stock Market Caps Above $10 Bil | End | End | Change | End | End | Change | End | End | Change | ||
mils $ | mils $ | mils $ | mils $ | mils $ | mils $ | |||||||
CA | Apple | 16,421 | 13,917 | 18% | 13,284 | 11,308 | 17% | 16,168 | 14,684 | 10% | ||
WA | Microsoft | 10,221 | 7,984 | 28% | 10,680 | 7,958 | 34% | 8,641 | 7,094 | 22% | ||
CA | Alphabet | 10,083 | 7,979 | 26% | 4,215 | 4,377 | -4% | 10,543 | 6,819 | 55% | ||
CA | Intel | 7,142 | 5,930 | 20% | 5,529 | 4,572 | 21% | 5,011 | 3,815 | 31% | ||
CA | 5,912 | 5,236 | 13% | 5,868 | 4,488 | 31% | 5,610 | 3,408 | 65% | |||
CA | Cisco Systems | 3,909 | 2,962 | 32% | 3,592 | 3,180 | 13% | 3,253 | 3,191 | 2% | ||
ID | Micron Technology | 3,773 | 2,792 | 35% | 4,346 | 2,322 | 87% | 3,714 | 1,739 | 114% | ||
CA | Visa | 3,538 | 3,099 | 14% | 2,812 | 2,914 | -4% | 3,217 | 2,702 | 19% | ||
WA | Amazon.com | 3,391 | 314 | 980% | 2,608 | 664 | 293% | 1,916 | 953 | 101% | ||
NY | International Business Machines | 2,996 | 3,065 | -2% | 2,776 | 2,443 | 14% | 1,136 | 1,424 | -20% | ||
CA | Oracle | 2,774 | 2,826 | -2% | 2,540 | 2,500 | 2% | 4,141 | 3,760 | 10% | ||
NY | Mastercard | 2,264 | 1,932 | 17% | 1,922 | 1,628 | 18% | 1,803 | 1,478 | 22% | ||
CT | Booking Holdings | 2,241 | 2,067 | 8% | 1,209 | 863 | 40% | 753 | 528 | 43% | ||
TX | Texas Instruments | 1,924 | 1,789 | 8% | 1,706 | 1,486 | 15% | 1,553 | 1,255 | 24% | ||
CA | Broadcom Ltd | 1,422 | 645 | 120% | 1,229 | 548 | 124% | 1,099 | 365 | 201% | ||
CA | NVIDIA | 1,081 | 896 | 21% | 1,180 | 684 | 73% | 1,311 | 536 | 145% | ||
CA | HP Inc | 1,007 | 848 | 19% | 1,018 | 899 | 13% | 83 | 754 | -89% | ||
CA | Applied Materials | 998 | 1,074 | -7% | 1,239 | 978 | 27% | 1,295 | 908 | 43% | ||
CA | eBay | 948 | 694 | 37% | 707 | 462 | 53% | 547 | 558 | -2% | ||
CA | Adobe Systems | 699 | 643 | 9% | 701 | 541 | 30% | 691 | 493 | 40% | ||
NJ | Cognizant Technology | 662 | 658 | 1% | 624 | 635 | -2% | 697 | 649 | 7% | ||
WA | Expedia | 612 | 415 | 47% | (14) | 57 | -125% | (169) | (131) | NM | ||
CA | Lam Research | 591 | 688 | -14% | 958 | 603 | 59% | 772 | 531 | 45% | ||
CA | Western Digital | 583 | 710 | -18% | 729 | 415 | 76% | (128) | 304 | NM | ||
CA | Hewlett Packard Enterprises | 576 | (301) | NM | 465 | 125 | 272% | (116) | 113 | NM | ||
CA | PayPal Holdings | 533 | 451 | 18% | 609 | 447 | 36% | 548 | 438 | 25% | ||
NY | First Data Corp | 502 | 234 | 115% | 365 | 271 | 35% | 161 | 91 | 77% | ||
CA | Seagate Technology | 468 | 188 | 149% | 466 | 120 | 288% | 393 | 212 | 85% | ||
MA | Analog Devices | 458 | 382 | 20% | 441 | 127 | 247% | 402 | 87 | 362% | ||
CA | KLA-Tencor | 428 | 336 | 27% | 406 | 325 | 25% | 366 | 319 | 15% | ||
CA | Netflix | 379 | 116 | 227% | 429 | 14 | 2964% | 300 | 224 | 34% | ||
CA | VMWare | 345 | 413 | -16% | 772 | 494 | 56% | 1,175 | 281 | 318% | ||
MA | Skyworks Solutions | 343 | 348 | -1% | 311 | 307 | 1% | 292 | 281 | 4% | ||
VA | DXC Technology | 332 | 284 | 17% | 360 | 91 | 296% | 661 | (187) | NM | ||
CA | NetApp | 293 | 222 | 32% | 272 | 145 | 88% | 303 | 248 | 22% | ||
CA | Electronic Arts | 276 | (38) | NM | 319 | 749 | -57% | 754 | 716 | 5% | ||
IL | Motorola Solutions | 270 | 286 | -6% | 227 | 205 | 11% | 140 | 120 | 17% | ||
CA | Check Point Software | 243 | 237 | 3% | 240 | 233 | 3% | 228 | 221 | 3% | ||
CA | Xilinx | 239 | 194 | 23% | 213 | 171 | 25% | 186 | 171 | 9% | ||
IL | CDW Corp | 238 | 207 | 15% | 230 | 195 | 18% | 166 | 75 | 121% | ||
CA | Maxim Integrated Products | 234 | 181 | 29% | 224 | 196 | 14% | 222 | 170 | 31% | ||
AZ | ON Semiconductor | 216 | 168 | 29% | 193 | 143 | 35% | 157 | 115 | 37% | ||
NJ | Verisk Analytics | 193 | 181 | 7% | 185 | 170 | 9% | 162 | 161 | 1% | ||
CA | Arista Networks | 189 | 142 | 33% | 163 | 117 | 39% | 143 | 74 | 93% | ||
VA | Verisign | 178 | 150 | 19% | 165 | 160 | 3% | 152 | 148 | 3% | ||
VA | Leidos Holding | 170 | 116 | 47% | 165 | 135 | 22% | 125 | 108 | 16% | ||
FL | Citrix Systems | 159 | 134 | 19% | 131 | 114 | 15% | 151 | 120 | 26% | ||
WA | F5 Networks | 159 | 154 | 3% | 154 | 142 | 8% | 146 | 140 | 4% | ||
NY | IAC/Interactive | 153 | (54) | NM | 312 | 61 | 411% | 59 | 5 | 1080% | ||
CA | Juniper Networks | 152 | 226 | -33% | 151 | 245 | -38% | 41 | 141 | -71% | ||
NY | CA Technologies | 148 | 258 | -43% | 82 | 238 | -66% | 243 | 198 | 23% | ||
MA | IPG Photonics | 128 | 161 | -20% | 164 | 142 | 15% | 142 | 101 | 41% | ||
CA | Salesforce.com | 128 | 146 | -12% | 231 | 63 | 267% | 385 | (10) | NM | ||
TX | Match Group | 122 | 62 | 97% | 143 | 54 | 165% | 87 | 34 | 156% | ||
CA | Activision Blizzard | 121 | 220 | -45% | 408 | 293 | 39% | 567 | 453 | 25% | ||
CT | SS&C Technologies | 118 | 75 | 57% | (164) | 62 | -365% | 62 | 58 | 7% | ||
CA | Advanced Micro Devices | 114 | 83 | 37% | 122 | (39) | NM | 89 | (28) | NM | ||
NC | Red Hat | 112 | 116 | -3% | 135 | 132 | 2% | 111 | 87 | 28% | ||
MA | Akamai Technologies | 111 | 92 | 21% | 52 | 86 | -40% | 68 | 105 | -35% | ||
MO | Jack Henry & Associates | 104 | 97 | 7% | 108 | 99 | 9% | 96 | 88 | 9% | ||
CA | Cadence Design Systems | 100 | 87 | 15% | 90 | 77 | 17% | 78 | 74 | 5% | ||
PA | Ansys | 95 | 108 | -12% | 110 | 100 | 10% | 97 | 86 | 13% | ||
CO | IHS Markit Ltd | 92 | 97 | -5% | 111 | 110 | 1% | 126 | 98 | 29% | ||
CO | Qurate Retail | 88 | 45 | 96% | 223 | 250 | -11% | 285 | 272 | 5% | ||
CA | 87 | (18) | NM | 66 | (113) | NM | 64 | (58) | NM | |||
DC | CoStar Group | 73 | 55 | 33% | 46 | 26 | 77% | 56 | 35 | 60% | ||
CA | Fortinet | 71 | 38 | 87% | 51 | 33 | 55% | 37 | 8 | 363% | ||
CA | Veeva Systems | 68 | 44 | 55% | 56 | 41 | 37% | 46 | 39 | 18% | ||
MO | Amdocs Ltd | 65 | 130 | -50% | 102 | 131 | -22% | 132 | 133 | -1% | ||
CA | Synopsys | 52 | 100 | -48% | 72 | 113 | -36% | 119 | 62 | 92% | ||
NC | Qorvo | 33 | 36 | -8% | (62) | (40) | NM | (44) | (37) | NM | ||
NY | ANGI Homeservices | 32 | (113) | NM | 21 | (4) | NM | (13) | 0 | NM | ||
NY | Take-Two Interactive | 31 | (14) | NM | 77 | 47 | 64% | 91 | 111 | -18% | ||
CA | Symantec | 28 | (69) | NM | (73) | (134) | NM | (61) | (248) | NM | ||
IL | GrubHub | 22 | 17 | 29% | 34 | 22 | 55% | 31 | 25 | 24% | ||
CA | Square Inc | 21 | (17) | NM | (5) | (15) | NM | (24) | (15) | NM | ||
FL | Ultimate Software Group | 17 | 14 | 21% | 21 | 7 | 200% | 22 | 3 | 633% | ||
AZ | GoDaddy | 13 | 4 | 225% | 19 | 19 | 0% | 4 | (2) | NM | ||
CA | AutoDesk | 12 | (111) | NM | (23) | (126) | NM | (64) | (121) | NM | ||
CA | ServiceNow | 7 | (20) | NM | (41) | (58) | NM | (7) | (23) | NM | ||
MA | PTC Inc | 1 | 5 | -80% | 10 | 1 | 900% | 12 | (1) | NM | ||
CA | Dropbox | (6) | (14) | NM | (3) | (26) | NM | (464) | (33) | NM | ||
WA | Tableau Software | (11) | (45) | NM | (14) | (41) | NM | (49) | (52) | -6% | ||
CA | Intuit | (14) | (37) | NM | (74) | (10) | NM | 1,617 | 1,439 | 12% | ||
WA | Zillow Group | (15) | 9 | NM | (14) | (22) | NM | (16) | (5) | NM | ||
CA | Twilio | (27) | (23) | NM | (24) | (7) | NM | (24) | (14) | NM | ||
AZ | Microchip Technology | (39) | 186 | NM | 38 | 166 | -77% | 188 | 72 | 161% | ||
CA | Palo Alto Networks | (42) | (55) | NM | 8 | (31) | NM | (50) | (53) | NM | ||
CA | Marvell Technology | (44) | 156 | NM | (23) | 132 | NM | 132 | 105 | 26% | ||
CA | Splunk | (54) | (30) | NM | (103) | (78) | NM | (120) | (114) | NM | ||
CA | DocuSign | (59) | (14) | NM | (35) | (12) | NM | (270) | (20) | NM | ||
AZ | Carvana | (64) | (40) | NM | (51) | (39) | NM | (53) | (38) | NM | ||
CA | Nutanix | (98) | (59) | NM | (65) | (83) | NM | (87) | (94) | NM | ||
MA | Wayfair | (151) | (76) | NM | (100) | (39) | NM | (108) | (56) | NM | ||
CA | Workday | (156) | (84) | NM | (87) | (81) | NM | (75) | (62) | NM | ||
CA | Atlassian Corp | (240) | (20) | NM | (22) | (32) | NM | (8) | (23) | NM | ||
CA | Snap | (325) | (455) | NM | (352) | (443) | NM | (384) | (2,212) | NM | ||
CA | QUALCOMM | (775) | 434 | NM | 956 | 858 | 11% | 358 | 857 | -58% | ||
TX | Dell Technologies | (995) | (1,092) | NM | (468) | (1,210) | NM | (623) | (1,844) | -66% | ||
Total all 99 US Technology Cos | 92,017 | 74,589 | 23% | 81,179 | 62,645 | 30% | 83,775 | 61,788 | 36% |