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R&D Market Pulse: Slowdown in Smartphone Sales Hits Qualcomm Hard

By R&D Editors | November 12, 2018

The R&D Index for the week ending November 9, 2018 closed at 4,376.71 for the 25 companies in the R&D Index. The Index was up 1.95% (or 83.85 basis points) from the week ending November 2, 2018. The stock of twenty R&D Index companies gained value last week from 0.25% (Honda) to 8.24% (Astra Zeneca). The stock of five R&D Index companies lost value last week from -0.92% (General Motors) to -10.44% (Qualcomm).

The Federal Reserve held its regularly scheduled November meeting last week with no changes made in interest rates. It continued its confidence in the U.S. economy, implying that its plan for a fourth interest rate hike for 2018 is still likely to occur at its December meeting.

R&D Index member Qualcomm was the big market loser of the R&D Index members last week, with its stock falling by 10.4% for the week. While ahead of analysts’ projections, Q3 revenues for Qualcomm announced last week were still 20% below its 2017 Q3 values. The smartphone component supplier is suffering from a global slowdown in smartphone sales and its continuing legal battle with Apple which has shut out Qualcomm from the latest iPhone product releases. As its revenues fall, Qualcomm’s R&D spending is similarly falling from $5.2 billion in 2018 to less than $5.0 billion expected in 2019.

R&D Index member Amazon announced last week that it had created an arrangement with Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) that allows customers of Amazon Web Services (AWS) to choose services that use AMD’s processors. AMD already has similar relationships with Microsoft, Oracle, Baidu and Tencent. The Amazon-AMD deal allows AMD to possibly gain cloud server market share on Intel, especially since Amazon is the undisputed market leader in the public cloud industry. Analysts expect AMD to have 17% market share for server chips by 2021 compared to the less than 5% they now have. AMD currently spends $1.3 billion on R&D (2018) and is expected to spend $1.4 billion in 2019.

Canadian aerospace firm Bombardier announced last week that it would cut another 5,000 jobs and sell off its pilot training and turboprop businesses. Its CSeries aircraft business was sold to Airbus earlier this year. Bombardier spent $212 million on R&D in 2018 and was expected to spend $177 million on R&D in 2019 before the current divestitures

      R&D Index Week Ending November 9, 2018      
  Ticker Exchange 2018 R&D millions U.S. $ 11/02/18 11/09/18 11/09/18 to 11/2/18 11/09/18 to 12/29/17
Amazon AMZN NASDAQ 26,750 1,665.53 1,712.43 2.82% 46.43%
Alphabet/Google GOOGL NASDAQ 18,796 1,071.49 1,077.02 0.52% 2.24%
Apple AAPL NASDAQ 14,037 207.48 204.47 -1.45% 20.82%
Intel INTC NASDAQ 13,702 47.11 48.11 2.12% 4.22%
Microsoft MSFT NASDAQ 13,558 106.16 109.57 3.21% 28.09%
Roche Pharm RHHBY OTC 12,284 29.82 31.30 4.96% -0.89%
Johnson & Johnson JNJ NYSE 11,493 140.68 145.34 3.31% 4.02%
Merck & Co. MRK NYSE 11,323 72.27 74.86 3.58% 33.04%
Volkswagen AG VWAGY OTC 10,915 17.20 16.19 -5.87% -59.97%
Toyota TM NYSE 10,848 115.46 117.24 1.54% -7.81%
Novartis NVS NYSE 8,934 87.20 89.22 2.32% 6.26%
Honda HMC NYSE 8,180 28.43 28.50 0.25% -16.37%
Pfizer PFE NYSE 7,942 42.93 44.28 3.14% 22.25%
Daimler DDAIY OTC 7,615 53.46 50.86 -4.86% -39.85%
General Motors GM NYSE 7,278 36.03 35.70 -0.92% -12.91%
Oracle ORCL NYSE 7,001 48.83 50.61 3.65% 7.04%
Bristol-Myers Squibb BMY NYSE 6,981 50.69 53.39 5.33% -12.88%
Eli Lilly Co LLY NYSE 6,769 106.75 112.21 5.11% 32.86%
GlaxoSmithKline GSK NYSE 6,394 38.84 41.30 6.33% 16.44%
Cisco CSCO NASDAQ 6,009 45.48 47.11 3.58% 23.00%
IBM IBM NYSE 5,842 115.67 123.54 6.80% -19.48%
Bayer AG BAYN OTC 5,743 20.01 20.18 0.85% -35.09%
Astra Zeneca PLC AZN NYSE 5,483 37.85 40.97 8.24% 18.07%
Qualcomm QCOM NASDAQ 5,183 63.33 56.72 -10.44% -11.40%
Sanofi SA SNY NYSE 4,694 44.16 45.59 3.24% 6.02%
Total     243,754 4,292.86 4,376.71 1.95% 15.43%
               
    Biopharmaceutical 671.20 698.64 4.09% 9.55%
    Automotive 250.58 248.39 -0.87% -24.03%
    ICT   1,705.55 1,717.15 0.68% 3.61%

About the R&D Index

R&D Magazine’s R&D Index is a weekly stock market summary of the top international companies involved in research and development. The top 25 industrial spenders of R&D in 2017 were selected based on the latest listings from Schonfeld & Associates’ June 2018 R&D Ratios & Budgets. These 25 companies include pharmaceutical (11 companies), automotive (5), ICT (8) and conglomerate (1) organizations who invested a cumulative total of more than $209 billion in R&D in 2017, or approximately 10% of all the R&D spent in the world by government, industries and academia combined, according to R&D Magazine’s 2018 Global R&D Funding Forecast. The stock prices used in the R&D Index are tabulated from NASDAQ, NYSE, XETRA and OTC common stock prices (in U.S. dollars) for the companies selected at the close of stock trading business on the Friday preceding the publication of the R&D Index in R&D Magazine’s R&D Daily eNewslette

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