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Welcome back to earnings season.

Tomorrow starts off big for the tech industry.聽Microsoft will become the first among tech’s most significant American players to drop its quarterly digest.

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The rest of the Big 5 will report on (Alphabet), (Facebook)听 (Amazon), and (Apple). By the end of this month we’ll have seen all the major platform players move through the earnings wringer.

We care about this earnings cycle as it likely matters more than most. One year ago, the Big 5 crossed the $3 trillion market cap line. The stakes are even higher now as the companies are all worth more. Here is what is driving our attention:

• $4 trillion:聽After market close today, the Big 5 are worth $4.08 trillion.聽If the firms are worth the fresh $1 trillion that they have earned over the last year is an interesting question. It seems slightly reasonable to say that the largest American tech shops have grown their value by 33 percent in a year. But when you consider the same differential in raw dollars it’s tougher to agree with.
• $2.95 billion:聽That is the number that tracks鈥攔oughly, bear in mind鈥攖he value creation that the Big 5 have undergone daily in the last year. Every day. For a year.
• The Netflix wobble:聽Netflix’s growth in recent years has seen it . However, Netflix was slammed by investors when it missed growth targets earlier this week. Its stock slid more than ten percent after hours. The message appears to be that public investors aren’t in the mood to tolerate growth聽declines.
• Stretched Valuations:聽The gains in market value by the Big 5 have not all been generated by growth in revenues and profits. Indeed, multiples have growth. A rising price-earnings ratio has accompanied Microsoft’s .聽Only Apple remains conservative compared to historical results.
• The markets are weaker than you think: Tech has . That means that the gains we’ve seen by some indices as they look if we isolate technology companies. There’s less up under the market than you might have thought.

The Big 5 could have a great earnings cycle and set new market highs. But things seem more brittle than before. And with a shiny new market cap milestone under their belt, there’s more weight to any decline that the Big 5 may post.

Also keep in mind why we care about big, public tech companies. They set the ruler for a lot of what smaller, private tech companies get in terms of fundraising, valuations, and M&A offers. If the big tech companies take a dive, it can chill things all the way back to seed.