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R&D Market Pulse: Stocks Rise But Difficult Week Ahead

By R&D Editors | June 5, 2017

The R&D Index: Market Watch for the holiday-shortened week ending June 2, 2017 closed at 1,669.28 for the 25 companies in the R&D Index. The Index was up 2.00% (or 32.67 basis points) over the week ending May 26, 2017. Twenty-four R&D Index companies gained value last week from 0.16% (Intel) to 5.87% (Ericsson). Only one R&D Index company lost value last week, IBM (-0.29%).

The unemployment rate for May fell to 4.3%, its lowest level in 16 years, according to the Dept. of Labor’s monthly jobs report announced last Friday. The number of new jobs created in May over April, however, was a seasonally adjusted 138,000. The U.S. economy now has added an average of 121,000 jobs over the past three months, which is about two-thirds of the growth rate recorded in 2016. The Fed targets a higher unemployment rate of 4.7% to 5.0%. It believes that rates below that level negatively affect companies’ ability to hire skilled workers. According to economists, job openings are near an all time high.

R&D Index member GM fell behind R&D Index member Ford in the number of vehicles sold in May. GM sales fell 1.3% in May while Ford sales rose by 2.3% from year-earlier numbers. Toyota’s sales also fell by 0.5%, while Honda’s rose 0.9%. Much of the sales changes were associated with truck sales where GM truck sales have fallen 5.7% in 2017, while Ford truck sales have risen 8.5%. If these trends continue, they could affect the monies available by the companies for 2018 R&D investments.

The Fed continues to indicate that it will raise the short-term interest rate once again at its June 13-14 meeting, but has cautioned that it may not raise rates at its September 19-20 meeting as expected if the administration and the Congress have difficulties in reaching agreement to raise the Federal debt limit in September. The June rate increase would be the fourth rate increase since the Great Recession – Dec 2015, Dec 2016 and March 2017 being the previous 0.25% rate increases to the current 0.75% to 1.00% level.

Most major stock indices hit all-time highs this past week in part due to President Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accords on Thursday and the resulting potential financial benefits to corporations. This coming week could also affect the stock market due to a trio of potentially destabilizing events, all occurring on Thursday, June 8β€”the UK general election, the European Central Bank’s (ECB’s) monetary policy meeting, and former FBI director Comey’s testimony to Congress on Russia’s involvement in the Trump election.

        R&D Index Week Ending June 2, 2017      

 

    Ticker Exchange 2015 R&D billions$ 05/26/17 06/02/17 6/2/17 to 5/26/17 6/2/17 to 1/1/16
1 Microsoft MSFT NASDAQ 12,448 69.97 71.76 2.56% 29.34%
2 Intel INTC NASDAQ 12,128 36.26 36.32 0.16% 5.43%
3 Roche Pharm RHHBY OTC 10,242 33.96 34.37 1.21% -0.29%
4 Toyota TM NYSE 9,112 107.10 109.37 2.12% -11.11%
5 Johnson & Johnson JNJ NYSE 9,046 126.92 130.08 2.49% 26.64%
6 Novartis NVS NYSE 8,935 80.63 82.23 1.98% -4.47%
7 Apple AAPL NASDAQ 8,397 153.61 155.45 1.20% 47.68%
8 Pfizer PFE NYSE 7,690 32.41 32.54 0.40% 0.46%
9 General Motors GM NYSE 7,500 33.07 34.45 4.17% 1.29%
10 Merck & Co. MRK NYSE 6,704 64.92 65.47 0.85% 23.95%
11 Ford Motor F NYSE 6,700 10.93 11.35 3.84% -19.45%
12 Cisco CSCO NASDAQ 6,411 31.50 31.98 1.52% 17.75%
13 Oracle ORCL NYSE 6,042 45.26 45.66 0.88% 24.99%
14 Astra Zeneca PLC AZN NYSE 5,997 33.85 35.11 3.72% 3.42%
15 Honda HMC NYSE 5,990 27.63 28.69 3.84% -10.15%
16 Bristol-Myers Squibb BMY NYSE 5,920 53.97 54.97 1.85% -20.10%
17 Qualcomm QCOM NASDAQ 5,833 57.52 58.58 1.84% 17.21%
18 Sanofi SA SNY NYSE 5,519 49.00 50.01 2.08% 17.26%
19 Eli Lilly Co LLY NYSE 5,331 78.05 80.13 2.66% -4.88%
20 GlaxoSmithKline GSK NYSE 5,250 42.67 44.37 3.98% 9.96%
21 IBM IBM NYSE 5,247 152.49 152.05 -0.29% 10.52%
22 Daimler DDAIY OTC 5,169 65.45 65.84 0.60% -15.48%
23 Siemens SIE XETRA 4,929 125.90 129.50 2.86% 44.08%
24 Bayer AG BAYN XETRA 4,649 116.55 121.60 4.33% 4.65%
25 Ericsson ERIC NASDAQ 4,124 6.99 7.40 5.87% -23.00%
      Total 175,313 1636.61 1669.28 2.00% 9.71%
                 
      Biopharmaceutical 712.93 730.88 2.52% 5.21%
      Automotive 244.18 249.70 2.26% -11.13%
      ICT   546.61 551.80 0.96% 23.60%

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 2015 were selected based on the latest listings from Schonfeld & Associates’ June 2016 R&D Ratios & Budgets. These 25 companies include pharmaceutical (11 companies), automotive (5), ICT  (7) and conglomerate (2) organizations who invested a cumulative total of more than $175 billion in R&D in 2015, or approximately 11% of all the R&D spent in the world by government, industries and academia combined, according to R&D Magazine’s 2016 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 eNewsletter.

The companies used in the R&D Index include Microsoft, Intel, Roche Holdings, Novartis, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Toyota Motor, General Motors, Merck & Co., Ford Motor, Cisco, Apple Computer, Sanofi SA, Qualcomm, IBM, Astra Zeneca plc, Honda Motor, Daimler, Oracle, GlaxoSmithKline, Siemens, Eli Lilly Co., Ericsson, Bristol-Myers Squibb and Bayer AG. Stock prices are based on those stocks traded on the U.S. exchanges. R&D Index trends (in the stock prices) are just one indicator of the amount of capital available to these high-technology companies to invest in R&D and should not be implied to indicate the absolute value of R&D investments made by these organizations. The companies chosen for the R&D Index have very large sophisticated internal and global R&D organizations with each company investing between $4.1 and $12.4 billion annually on their R&D efforts.

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