WHAT DOES A TRUMP PRESIDENCY MEAN FOR THE TECH SECTOR?

CORPORATE TAXATION

Tax rates

Repatriated overseas earnings

Tax avoidance

TRADE

Import tariffs

Immigration

Chinese tech companies

REGULATION

Data privacy

Net neutrality

Anti-trust regulation

Energy

CYBERSECURITY

SOCIAL MEDIA

OUR US TECHNOLOGY SECTOR SCORECARD

Who’s who in our scorecard

Thematic screen

Valuation screen

Risk Screen

APPENDIX: OUR “THEMATIC” RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

As the dust settles after the US presidential election, we look at the medium-term investment implications of a Trump presidency for technology companies:
Taxation: Most US tech companies will benefit from lower tax rates, but some – like Amazon – may be aggressively pursued for tax avoidance.
Trade tariffs: Import tariffs on Chinese goods will hit technology companies – like Apple, Cisco and HP – who design in the US but manufacture in China. US-based manufacturers like Intel will benefit.
Inside this report, we look at what a Trump presidency might mean for the clean energy, social media and cybersecurity sectors.
Scope
This report is part of our ecosystem of thematic investment research reports, supported by our “thematic engine”.
About our Thematic Research Ecosystem
GlobalData has developed a unique thematic methodology for valuing technology, media and telecom companies based on their relative strength in the big investment themes that are impacting their industry. Whilst most investment research is underpinned by backwards looking company valuation models, GlobalData’s thematic methodology identifies which companies are best placed to succeed in a future filled with multiple disruptive threats. To do this, GlobalData tracks the performance of the top 600 technology, media and telecom stocks against the 50 most important themes driving their earnings, generating 30,000 thematic scores. The algorithms in GlobalData’s “thematic engine” help to clearly identify the winners and losers within the TMT sector. Our 600 TMT stocks are categorised into 18 sectors. Each sector scorecard has a thematic screen, a risk screen and a valuation screen. Our thematic research ecosystem has a three-tiered reporting structure: single theme, multi-theme and sector scorecard. This report is a Single Theme report, offering in-depth research into a specific theme. It identifies winners and losers based on technology leadership, market position and other factors.

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Corporations: Helps CEOs in all industries understand the disruptive threats to their competitive landscape
Investors: Helps fund managers focus their time on the most interesting investment opportunities in global TMT.
Our unique differentiator, compared to all our rival thematic research houses, is that our thematic engine has a proven track record of predicting winners and losers.

Companies mentioned

21st Century Fox
Accenture
Activision Blizzard
Adobe
Alibaba
Alphabet
Amazon
Apple
Applied Materials
AT&T
Baidu
CBS
Cisco
Cognizant
Comcast
Dish Network
eBay
Electronic Arts
Equinix
Facebook
HP Enterprise
HP Inc
IBM
Illumina
Intel
Intuit
Level 3
Liberty Global
Linkedin
Mcgraw-Hill
Microsoft
Netflix
Nielsen
Nvidia
Omnicom
Oracle
PayPal
Priceline
Qualcomm
Rogers Comms
Salesforce.Com
Sirius XM Radio
Tencent
Tesla Motors
Texas Instruments
Thomson Reuters
Time Warner
T-Mobile USA
Verizon
Viacom
VMware
Walt Disney
Yahoo!