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R&D Market Pulse: U.S. Economy Slows in April Following Robust 1Q

By Tim Studt | May 20, 2019

The R&D Index for the week ending May 17, 2019 closed at 4,655.71 for the 25 companies in the R&D Index. The Index was down -0.71% (or 33.16 basis points) from the week ending May 10, 2019. Nine of the 25 R&D Index members gained value from 0.10% (Google/Alphabet) to 2.43% (Roche Pharma). Sixteen of the 25 R&D Index member lost value from -0.18% (both Eli Lilly Company and GlaxoSmithKline) to -5.06% (Qualcomm).

Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced last week that it will purchase supercomputer maker Cray Inc. for $1.44 billion. Cray and HPE competitors include R&D Index member IBM, Fujitsu and Dell. Their products are deployed for scientific research, financial analyses and military/defense applications. IBM currently has the top two supercomputers located at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

The U.S. Air Force announced last week that its first projects are ready for release to its membership in the Air Force Research Laboratory’s ARCNet portal, which facilitates collaborative R&D related to autonomous technologies for the AFRL. ARCNet membership is open to academia, large and small businesses and start-ups for autonomous system development. ARCNet was established in February through a cooperative agreement between AFRL and the Ohio-based SPG Institute.

Procter & Gamble last week unveiled the company’s largest R&D center, the Mason Business Center outside Cincinnati. The center will employ nearly 3,000 researchers in 2 million square feet. P&G spent $400 million to expand an existing site. The company also employs a total of 10,000 workers in the Cincinnati area.

R&D Index member AstraZeneca announced last week the hiring of Univ. of Calgary cancer researcher Sunil Verma to become the pharma’s VP and head of its cancer research strategy and global clinical leader in oncology R&D.

U.S.-China trade tensions in April led to a slowdown in the U.S. economy according to government reports last week. Retail sales fell 0.2% from March according to the Commerce Department, while factory output fell a steeper 0.5% in April from March, according to Federal Reserve data. Freight demands collected by the Cass Freight Index also dropped 3.2% in April from March, the fifth consecutive month the index has declined.

      R&D Index Week Ending May 17, 2019      
    Ticker Exchange 2018 R&D millions U.S. $ 05/10/19 05/17/19 5/17/19 to 5/10/19 5/17/19 to 12/31/18
1 Amazon AMZN NASDAQ 26,750 1,889.98 1,869.00 -1.11% 24.44%
2 Alphabet/Google GOOGL NASDAQ 18,796 1,167.64 1,168.78 0.10% 11.85%
3 Apple AAPL NASDAQ 14,037 197.18 189.00 -4.15% 19.82%
4 Intel INTC NASDAQ 13,702 46.20 44.89 -2.84% -4.35%
5 Microsoft MSFT NASDAQ 13,558 127.13 128.07 0.74% 26.09%
6 Roche Pharm RHHBY OTC 12,284 32.06 32.84 2.43% 5.66%
7 Johnson & Johnson JNJ NYSE 11,493 139.05 138.61 -0.32% 7.41%
8 Merck & Co. MRK NYSE 11,323 78.19 78.72 0.68% 3.02%
9 Volkswagen AG VWAGY OTC 10,915 17.17 16.60 -3.32% 6.41%
10 Toyota TM NYSE 10,848 119.27 118.40 -0.73% 2.00%
11 Novartis NVS NYSE 8,934 81.88 82.70 1.00% -3.62%
12 Honda HMC NYSE 8,180 26.09 25.63 -1.76% -3.10%
13 Pfizer PFE NYSE 7,942 40.72 41.47 1.84% -4.99%
14 Daimler DDAIY OTC 7,615 61.39 59.50 -3.08% 12.75%
15 General Motors GM NYSE 7,278 37.89 37.00 -2.35% 10.61%
16 Oracle ORCL NYSE 7,001 54.65 54.50 -0.27% 20.71%
17 Bristol-Myers Squibb BMY NYSE 6,981 47.01 46.85 -0.34% -9.87%
18 Eli Lilly Co LLY NYSE 6,769 116.22 116.01 -0.18% 0.25%
19 GlaxoSmithKline GSK NYSE 6,394 39.53 39.46 -0.18% 3.27%
20 Cisco CSCO NASDAQ 6,009 53.36 56.35 5.60% 30.05%
21 IBM IBM NYSE 5,842 135.32 134.32 -0.74% 18.17%
22 Bayer AG BAYN OTC 5,743 16.36 15.83 -3.24% -9.90%
23 Astra Zeneca PLC AZN NYSE 5,483 37.65 37.78 0.35% -0.53%
24 Qualcomm QCOM NASDAQ 5,183 85.84 81.50 -5.06% 43.23%
25 Sanofi SA SNY NYSE 4,694 41.09 41.90 1.97% -3.48%
  Total     243,754 4,688.87 4,655.71 -0.71% 15.60%
                 
      Biopharmaceutical 669.76 672.17 0.36% 0.19%
      Automotive 261.81 257.13 -1.79% 5.23%
      ICT   1,867.32 1,857.41 -0.53% 15.35%

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 2019 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.

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