Sunday, May 6, 2012

Illinois Corporate 2011 Annual Earnings More Than Double From 2009 Under Obama

I found an incredibly large number of Corporations…..82 in total…..headquartered in Illinois, which file with the SEC, and which had Pretax Income or Pretax Loss of more than $100 mil in any of the most recent three fiscal years.

Included in these 82 Illinois Corps is technology/managing consulting giant Accenture, which has added many jobs worldwide in the past several years, including 500 recently in Chicago.  Accenture is an Ireland Corporation, but with substantial operations in the US, especially in Chicago and New York City.  More than a decade ago, Accenture was part of Chicago-based Arthur Andersen.  And Accenture’s outside CPA firm is Chicago based.

Also included in these 82 Illinois Corps is CNH Global, a Netherlands Corp, with its earnings releases coming from Burr Ridge, IL, and its outside CPA firm being Chicago based.

Even though Boeing’s top executives and earnings releases are located in Chicago, I have excluded it from the 82 Illinois Corps below, and have instead included it with the Washington State Corps, where a substantial portion of its operations are based.  Boeing’s Pretax Earnings have rocketed from $1,731 mil in 2009 to $5,393 mil in 2011, an off-the-charts increase of 212% in only two years.  Whoa!

These 82 Illinois Corps generated Total Pretax Income in 2011 of $68.8 bil, for a very robust 32% increase over 2010, and an even more robust 105% increase over 2009.

In deriving Pretax Income, I start with Pretax Income under Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), and then exclude several clearly unusual very large items relative to Pretax Income, such as Asset Impairments, Gains and Losses on both Debt Retirements and Asset Dispositions, and Special Litigation Charges and Gains.

Illinois citizens should be extremely proud of the operating performance in the most recent two years of their superb Illinois Corporations.

Clearly, the Obama Administration has created an economic environment in the past two years that has permitted these Illinois Corporations to thrive. 

And so have both the past Chicago Mayor Richard Daley and the new Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel been a great help to these Illinois Corps.

Likewise for current Illinois Governor Pat Quinn and many in the Illinois State Congress.

And many Illinois members of the US Congress…..Dick Durbin in the US Senate and these 8 in the US House:  Jerry Costello, Danny Davis, Luis Gutierrez, Jesse Jackson, Daniel Lipinski, Bobby Rush, Mike Quiqley, and Jan Schakowsky…..have especially been a great help to these Illinois Corps.

With this off-the-charts 105% earnings growth for these Illinois Corps in the past two years, there is no way that the 32% earnings growth in 2011 will continue in 2012. 

And this earnings growth has substantially stopped to a walk in the 1Q of 2012.

I think the only way these Illinois Corps’ earnings growth for the remainder of 2012 will be at least 15%, and also result in excellent job creation, is for the US Congress to immediately pass the following economic initiatives:

  • Extend the 100% first-year tax expensing for equipment and computer software investments made in the remainder of 2012.

  • Substantially accelerate first-year tax depreciation on all new building and building remodeling investments made in the remainder of 2012.

  • Pass the Research and Experimentation Tax Credit for businesses for all 2012 expenditures, but substantially enhance it, especially for smaller businesses, and simplify it.

  • Pass the substantial amount of school construction infrastructure fix ups for K-12 Schools and for Community Colleges in the American Jobs Act (AJA).  And all of these school investments should occur in 2012, and mostly from now through the end of the summer of 2012.

The above first two will result in explosive US economic stimulation, particularly when viewed in light of future business income tax reform, which should result in a much lower business income tax rate in 2013 and going forward.

Thus, businesses will get 2012 income tax deductions for both the 100% first-year tax depreciation on equipment purchases in 2012 and the substantially accelerated first-year tax deprecation on building investments in 2012 at a business income tax rate which is much higher in 2012, and then the future earnings from these equipment and building investments will generate post 2012 earnings streams from these investments which are taxed at a much lower post tax reform business income tax rate.  Wow, now that is bold economic stimulation.

But these explosive economic benefits to US businesses from this accelerated first-year tax depreciation does not necessarily mean that there will be resultant substantial US job creation from it.

Thus, I would make sure that the largest of the US Corps…..say the top 50 or so…..would get these first-year accelerated tax depreciation benefits in 2012 only if they add a sufficient number of US full-time workers in 2012.

And similar economic benefits will result from the Research and Experimentation Expenditures.  Not only will businesses get higher Research Tax Credits in 2012 for making investments in 2012, but they will also get 2012 tax deductions from these Research investments made in 2012 at the higher business income tax rate in 2012, and then subsequently get the future earnings stream from these Research investments taxed at the lower post tax reform business income tax rate that will be applicable starting in 2013 and going forward.

Below here is the Illinois headquarters location of each of these 82 Illinois Corporations.  Of these 82 Illinois Corps, 75 of them are in the Chicago area.

Illinois Corporation Illinois HQs


McDonalds Oak Brook
Abbott Labs Abbott Park
Caterpillar Peoria
Kraft Foods Northfield
Deere Moline
Walgreens Deerfield
Accenture Chicago
Discover Financial Services Riverwoods
Archer Daniels Midland Decatur
Baxter Deerfield
CF Industries Deerfield
Illinois Tool Works Glenview
CME Group Chicago
Aon Chicago
CNH Global NV Burr Ridge
Dover Downers Grove
WW Grainger Lake Forest
Allstate Northbrook
Northern Trust Chicago
CNA Financial Chicago
United Continental Chicago
Motorola Solutions Schaumburg
Corn Products Intl Westchester
Sara Lee Downers Grove
Terra Nitrogen LP Deerfield
DeVry Downers Grove
Beam Deerfield
Molex Lisle
Hospira Lake Forest
Stericycle Lake Forest
Telephone & Data Systems Chicago
LKQ Corp Chicago
RR Donnelley Chicago
Navistar Warrenville
US Cellular Chicago
Ventas Chicago
Anixter Glenview
Aptargroup Crystal Lake
IDEX Lake Forest
Tenneco Lake Forest
Packaging Corp America Lake Forest
CBOE Holdings Chicago
Career Education Schaumburg
Jones Lang Lasalle Chicago
Arthur Gallagher Itasca
Ulta Salon Bolingbrook
RLI Corp Peoria
Zebra Technologies Lincolnshire
United Stationers Deerfield
Calamos Asset Mgt Naperville
GATX Chicago
CDW Corp Vernon Hills
Morningstar Chicago
Treehouse Foods Westchester
Middleby Elgin
SXC Health Solutions Lisle
WMS Industries Waukegan
Allscripts HC Solutions Chicago
Littelfuse Chicago
Titan Intl Quincy
AAR Wood Dale
Brunswick Lake Forest
Stepan Northfield
Kapstone Paper & Packaging Northbrook
Horace Mann Education Springfield
Kemper Chicago
SunCoke Energy Lisle
OfficeMax Naperville
MB Financial Chicago
Strategic Hotels Chicago
Tellabs Naperville
Motorola Mobility Libertyville
Groupon Chicago
Old Republic Chicago
General Growth Properties Chicago
USG Chicago
Sears Holding Hoffman Estates
HSBC Finance US Mettawa

Late Additions

Transunion Chicago
First Busey Urbana
Ryerson Chicago
Gogo Itasca

And below here is the Pretax Income (PTI) and Pretax Loss (PTL) of these 82 Illinois Corps for each of the most recent three years, with the most recent fiscal year ends ranging from May 2011 to January 2012.





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PTI(L) PTI(L)

1 Year 2 Year

PTI(L) PTI(L) PTI(L) % %

2011 2010 2009 Change Change
mils $s mils $s mils $s

Illinois




McDonalds 8,012 7,000 6,487 14% 24%
Abbott Labs 7,372 6,026 6,280 22% 17%
Caterpillar 6,725 3,750 569 79% 1082%
Kraft Foods 4,772 3,642 3,946 31% 21%
Deere 4,223 3,025 1,339 40% 215%
Walgreens 3,860 3,373 3,164 14% 22%
Accenture 3,512 2,914 2,678 21% 31%
Discover Financial Services 3,511 1,269 229 177% 1433%
Archer Daniels Midland 3,015 2,585 2,500 17% 21%
Baxter 2,809 2,590 2,734 8% 3%
CF Industries 2,646 688 696 285% 280%
Illinois Tool Works 2,593 2,089 1,320 24% 96%
CME Group 1,937 1,722 1,438 12% 35%
Aon 1,384 1,059 949 31% 46%
CNH Global 1,151 416 (93) 177% 1338%
Dover 1,095 899 494 22% 122%
WW Grainger 1,052 854 660 23% 59%
Allstate 960 1,126 1,248 -15% -23%
Northern Trust 884 990 1,255 -11% -30%
CNA Financial 877 1,112 540 -21% 62%
United Continental 845 354 (321) 139% 363%
Motorola Solutions 738 664 633 11% 17%
Corn Products Intl 593 275 115 116% 416%
Sara Lee 542 573 462 -5% 17%
Terra Nitrogen LP 508 202 144 151% 253%
DeVry 494 413 237 20% 108%
Beam 433 346 341 25% 27%
Molex 430 168 (21) 156% 2148%
Hospira 373 379 384 -2% -3%
Stericycle 372 332 278 12% 34%
Telephone & Data Systems 364 286 385 27% -5%
LKQ Corp 336 270 205 24% 64%
RR Donnelley 326 416 260 -22% 25%
Navistar 320 290 359 10% -11%
US Cellular 313 241 349 30% -10%
Ventas 310 254 211 22% 47%
Anixter 304 212 98 43% 210%
Aptargroup 275 254 184 8% 49%
IDEX 274 232 169 18% 62%
Tenneco 271 132 (41) 105% 761%
Packaging Corp America 244 239 149 2% 64%
CBOE Holdings 240 165 177 45% 36%
Career Education 234 313 226 -25% 4%
Jones Lang Lasalle 222 203 3 9% 7300%
Arthur Gallagher 208 203 211 2% -1%
Ulta Salon 196 118 66 66% 197%
RLI Corp 190 178 132 7% 44%
Zebra Technologies 180 150 72 20% 150%
United Stationers 173 183 160 -5% 8%
Calamos Asset Mgt 156 148 93 5% 68%
GATX 148 97 108 53% 37%
CDW Corp 147 (37) (219) 497% 167%
Morningstar 140 128 128 9% 9%
Treehouse Foods 140 136 122 3% 15%
Middleby 140 114 100 23% 40%
SXC Health Solutions 138 98 68 41% 103%
WMS Industries 124 171 140 -27% -11%
Allscripts HC Solutions 117 104 44 13% 166%
Littelfuse 115 108 11 6% 945%
Titan Intl 112 6 (20) 1767% 660%
AAR 109 68 90 60% 21%
Brunswick 109 (85) (685) 228% 116%
Stepan 105 101 97 4% 8%
Kapstone Paper & Packaging 100 41 (62) 144% 261%
Horace Mann Education 95 111 104 -14% -9%
Kemper 83 237 228 -65% -64%
SunCoke Energy 66 193 232 -66% -72%
Office Max 58 116 (30) -50% 293%
MB Financial 44 (42) (107) 205% 141%
Strategic Hotels (76) (104) (136) 27% 44%
Tellabs (92) 192 113 -148% -181%
Motorola Mobility (148) (287) (1,335) 48% 89%
Groupon (254) (217) (1) -6% -25300%
Old Republic (237) 28 (274) -946% 14%
General Growth Properties (299) (403) (279) 26% -7%
USG (347) (381) (370) 9% 6%
Sears Holding (1,102) 166 391 -764% -382%
HSBC Finance US (3,734) (3,903) (8,784) 4% 57%






Total all 78 68,655 52,078 33,827 32% 103%

Late Additions

Transunion 126 139 206 -9% -39%
First Busey 45 33 (191) 36% 124%
Ryerson 32 (57) (107) 156% 130%
Gogo (34) (77) (142) 56% 76%






Grand Total all 82 68,824 52,116 33,593 32% 105%