Thursday, May 9, 2019

22 Smaller San Fran/Silicon Valley, CA Area Technology Cos Saw Their Total Pretax Earnings Decline By 178% in the March 2019 Quarter, By 1% in the Dec 2018 Quarter and By 15% in the Sept 2018 Quarter

Democratic Presidential Candidate Pete Buttigieg Will Be Making Six Campaign Stops in the San Francisco Bay Area on this Friday May 10, 2019.  California is one of the 12 Super Tuesday US States Holding Their 2020 Democratic Presidential Early Primary on March 3, 2020.  Thus, I Think It Might Be Helpful to Research Just How San Francisco/Silicon Valley Smaller Technology Companies Companies Have Performed on the Pretax Earnings Front in the Most Recent Three Quarters
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From a review of SEC filings and Google Finance, I found 22 San Francisco/Silicon Valley Area Technology Companies with stock markets caps of between $2 Bil and $10 Bil recently, which have March quarter ends and which have reported their March 2019 Quarter earnings, their December 2018 earnings and their September 2018 earnings to the SEC by May 8, 2019.

My Focus is on Pretax Income rather than on After-Tax Net Income because Income Taxes are simply a transfer of financial wealth between US Corporations and the US Federal, US State and Foreign Governments.  It has nothing whatsoever to do with company operating performance.


From SEC filings, the chart below shows the Gold-Standard US GAAP Pretax Income (Loss) From Continuing Operations for the March Quarters of both 2019 and 2018, the December Quarters of both 2018 and 2017 and the September Quarters of both 2018 and 2017 for each of these 22 San Francisco/Silicon Valley Area Smaller Technology Companies.

US US US US US US
GAAP GAAP GAAP GAAP GAAP GAAP
Smaller Technology Cos Pretax Pretax Pretax Pretax Pretax Pretax
San Fran/Silicon Valley Area Income Income Income Income Income Income
With March 2019 Quarter Ends (Loss) (Loss) (Loss) (Loss) (Loss) (Loss)
Reporting 1Q 2019, 4Q 2018 and 3Q 2018 Earnings March March Dec Dec Sept Sept
Reporting March 2019 Earnings By May 8, 2019 California 2019 2018 2018 2017 2018 2017
Market Caps $2-10 Bil City HQs Quarter Quarter Quarter Quarter Quarter Quarter
mils $ mils $ mils $ mils $ mils $ mils $
Software and Services 
Fair Isaac Corp San Jose              40              39              37              31              72              54
Qualys Inc Foster City              16              10              15              10              19              12
Five9 San Ramon               (2)               (1)                4               (1)               (1)                1
Chegg Inc Santa Clara               (4)               (2)                5                4             (13)             (11)
Upwork Mountain View               (5)               (7)               (5)               (5)               (7)               (0)
RingCentral Inc Belmont               (9)               (3)               (6)               (0)               (9)                0
Roku Saratoga             (10)               (7)                7                7             (10)             (46)
SVMK (Survey Monkey) San Mateo             (18)             (14)             (26)             (12)           (102)             (12)
Proofpoint Sunnyvale             (28)             (26)             (20)             (20)             (36)             (19)
Zendesk San Francisco             (44)             (33)             (38)             (26)             (36)             (26)
Zynga Inc San Francisco           (139)                9                5              13              10              23
Semiconductors
Mellanox Technologies Ltd Sunnyvale              53              11              44               (8)              41                6
Monolithic Power Systems San Jose              25              22              33              27              36              25
Cypress Semiconductor San Jose              19              14             (64)             (37)              56              18
Power Integrations Inc San Jose                7              15                9              15              19              17
Viavi Solutions Inc Milpitas                1               (8)              26               (2)             (10)               (6)
Inphi Corp Sunnyvale             (22)             (31)             (21)             (12)             (23)             (59)
Other Technology Manufacturing Cos
Juniper Networks Sunnyvale              45              41            188            200            152            226
Logitech Intl SA Newark              45              39            122            101              33              32
Coherent inc Santa Clara              25              91              44            100              77            101
Omnicell Inc Mountain View              11               (2)              17              15              15                9
FireEye  Milpitas             (73)             (71)             (47)             (69)             (48)             (68)
Total all 22 Technology Cos             (67)              86            329            331            235            277
Total Pretax Income % Change From Prior Year's Qtr -178% -1% -15%