Thursday, October 4, 2012

Chicago Area Audited Corporate Earnings Up Tenfold Under Obama

From an extensive review of SEC filings, I found an incredibly high number of 76 Corps headquartered in the Chicago Area with externally audited under US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (US GAAP) After-tax Net Income or Net Loss from Continuing Operations of at least $100 mil in any of the most recent five fiscal years.

These clearly superb 76 Largest Chicago Area Corps filing with the SEC generated Audited US GAAP Total After-tax Net Income from Continuing Operations of $39.5 bil in the most recent fiscal year 2011, which was a profit improvement of a massive $35.9 bil, or of an increase of 1,013% over the Total After-tax Net Income of only $3.5 bil generated by these same 76 Largest Chicago Area companies just three years earlier in 2008, the last year of the Bush/Cheney Administration.

So if the question to be answered is whether, in the aggregate, these 76 Largest Chicago Area Corps are better off now than they were in the last year of the Bush/Cheney Administration, the answer is clearly yes, and by a massive $36 bil better, or more than 10 times better, as audited earnings performance is measured by the prestigious US Accounting Profession.

So clearly, this is just great economic news to many Chicagoans.  But another key story here relates to the total earnings changes by year.

In the year before the start of the Great Recession/Near Depression, these 76 Largest Chicago Area Corps generated Total After-tax Net Income of an impressive $30.6 bil in 2007.

Then the financial meltdown hit and these same 76 Chicago Area companies saw their Total After-tax Net Income plummet by a massive $27.1 bil, or by 88%, to a Total After-tax Net Income of only $3.5 bil in 2008.

Enter President Obama and both the US House and the US Senate under Democratic control.

Both the Obama Administration and the Fed worked feverishly on fixing the financial mess.  And the Obama Administration also provided a much needed Economic Stimulus, which didn't start taking substantial hold until the latter part of 2009.  This Obama Economic Stimulus was going full throttle in all of 2010.

So, what was the impact of both the substantial financial fixes and the Obama Economic Stimulus on these 76 Largest Chicago Area Corps?  Well, it helped these 76 Largest Chicago Area Corps generate $21.2 bil of Total After-tax Net Income in 2009, which was up $17.6 bil over 2008, and generate $31.7 bil of like earnings in 2010, which was up another $10.5 bil over 2009.  Thus in both years of 2009 and 2010 combined, the $27.1 bil of profit reduction in the financial meltdown year of 2008 was more than completely eliminated.  Chicagoans clearly know how to get things done.

Further, these 76 Largest Chicago Area Corps generated Total After-tax Net Income of $39.5 bil in 2011, an increase of another $7.8 bil, or of 24% over 2010.

But on the downside, there was a total earnings growth deceleration in 2011, and also a very substantial one in the first half of 2012.

I think it is really important that the 2010 Tea Party Election be reversed all over the country in November 2012, in order to re-accelerate this total earnings growth, which is so critically needed to spur the country's present tepid real GDP growth and also needed to spur the presently modest US job creation.

President Obama can't do it alone.  He needs a US Congress that will work with him.  And blue States like Illinois can really help here, not just by voting in more Illinois US Congressional Democrats, but also by contributing to and helping in campaigns all across the country to remove from office the many Uncompromising, Very Conservative Republican members in key US Congressional races like Eric Cantor in Virginia, Michele Bachmann in Minnesota, Allen West in Florida, Steve King in Iowa, and Larry Bucshon in Indiana.....just to name a few.  These Republicans, strongly supported by the Tea Party, have good intentions, but with their near singular focus on extreme austerity, they are severely harming the country's economy. 

And the 5 similar Illinois Downstate Corporations also did very well, experiencing back-to-back total earnings increases of 101% in 2010 over 2009, and of another 35% in 2011 over 2010.

Below here is the Audited under US GAAP After-tax Net Income or Net Loss from Continuing Operations for each of these 81 Largest Illinois Corps for each of the most recent five fiscal years.  The clear majority of these 81 Corporations have a December Fiscal Year End (FYE).  The first section below shows the earnings and loss information related to the 76 Chicago Area Corps.  The last section below shows such earnings and loss information related to the 5 Illinois Downstate Corps.



FYE FYE FYE FYE FYE


2011 2010 2009 2008 2007


Reported Reported Reported Reported Reported


Audited Audited Audited Audited Audited


After-Tax After-Tax After-Tax After-Tax After-Tax


Net Income Net Income Net Income Net Income Net Income

Illinois (Loss) (Loss) (Loss) (Loss) (Loss)

HQs mil $s mil $s mil $s mil $s mil $s
Chicago Area Largest Corps
McDonalds Oak Brook 5,503 4,946 4,551 4,313 2,335
Abbott Labs Abbott Park 4,728 4,626 5,746 4,734 3,606
Boeing Chicago 4,011 3,311 1,335 2,654 4,058
Kraft Foods Northfield 3,547 2,495 2,810 1,678 2,343
Accenture Chicago 2,825 2,553 2,060 1,938 2,197
Baxter Deerfield 2,256 1,427 2,215 2,025 1,721
Discover Financial Services Riverwoods 2,227 765 1,276 1,063 964
Walgreens Deerfield 2,127 2,714 2,091 2,006 2,157
Illinois Tool Works Glenview 2,017 1,452 969 1,691 1,828
CME Group Chicago 1,814 952 826 716 659
Navistar International Lisle 1,778 267 322 134 (120)
CF Industries Deerfield 1,761 441 449 802 427
Aon Chicago 1,006 759 681 637 675
CNH Global NV Burr Ridge 924 438 (222) 824 574
Dover Downers Grove 846 691 373 650 609
United Continental Chicago 840 253 (651) (5,396) 360
Allstate Northbrook 788 928 854 (1,679) 4,636
Motorola Solutions Schaumburg 741 261 445 (3,490) 360
WW Grainger Lake Forest 666 514 431 475 420
CNA Financial Chicago 631 779 483 (251) 905
Northern Trust Chicago 604 670 864 795 727
Terra Nitrogen LP Deerfield 508 202 144 422 206
Corn Products Intl Westchester 423 176 47 275 203
Ventas Chicago 363 215 190 172 128
Molex Lisle 281 299 77 (322) 216
Telephone & Data Systems Chicago 250 191 250 120 414
Stericycle Lake Forest 237 210 176 149 119
LKQ Corp Chicago 210 167 127 97 64
Anixter Glenview 201 110 (41) 154 222
US Cellular Chicago 199 159 231 61 323
IDEX Lake Forest 194 157 113 127 154
Aptargroup Crystal Lake 184 174 125 154 140
Tenneco Lake Forest 183 63 (54) (405) 5
Jones Lang Lasalle Chicago 166 154 (3) 87 260
Packaging Corp America Lake Forest 158 205 266 136 170
Arthur Gallagher Itasca 144 163 133 111 155
DeVry Downers Grove 142 331 280 166 126
CBOE Holdings Chicago 139 99 106 115 83
Calamos Asset Mgt Naperville 138 136 85 (201) 186
Beam Deerfield 133 310 235 505 434
Zebra Technologies Lincolnshire 130 105 48 (19) 111
Kapstone Paper & Packaging Northbrook 124 65 80 20 27
Ulta Salon Bolingbrook 120 71 39 25 25
GATX Chicago 111 81 81 195 184
Hyatt Hotels Chicago 111 51 (43) 115 266
United Stationers Deerfield 109 113 101 98 107
Taylor Capital Group Wheeling 91 (54) (32) (125) (10)
Equity Residential Chicago 84 (83) (58) (106) (70)
Brunswick Lake Forest 72 (111) (586) (788) 80
Kemper Chicago 71 169 168 (16) 217
WMS Industries Waukegan 64 81 113 92 68
SunCoke Energy Lisle 59 146 211 133 50
TransUnion Chicago 49 37 132 134 190
OfficeMax Naperville 38 74 (2) (1,666) 212
Ryerson Chicago 35 (70) (192) 26 57
Gogo Itasca 24 (113) (142) (122) (49)
Acco Brands Lincolnshire 19 8 (119) (255) 31
CDW Corp Vernon Hills 17 (29) (373) (1,765) 134
Career Education Schaumburg (4) 163 147 91 114
Old Second Bancorp Aurora (6) (109) (66) 12 24
Hospira Lake Forest (9) 357 404 321 137
Hillshire Brands Downers Grove (22) 56 127 (31) (511)
First Industrial Realty Trust Chicago (32) (156) (20) (149) (85)
Fortune Brands Home & Security Deerfield (36) 64 (39) (700) 163
Retail Properties of America Oak Brook (103) (102) (108) (660) 0
Strategic Hotels Chicago (106) (265) (231) (288) 104
RR Donnelley Chicago (121) 217 (21) (185) (45)
Old Republic Chicago (141) 30 (99) (558) 272
Tellabs Naperville (188) 156 114 (930) 65
Motorola Mobility Libertyville (249) (79) (1,335) (2,972) (648)
Groupon Chicago (298) (413) (1) (2) 0
General Growth Properties Chicago (315) (523) (646) (78) 295
Inland American Real Estate Trust Oak Brook (316) (176) (398) (365) 56
USG Chicago (390) (405) (787) (463) 17
HSBC Finance US Mettawa (2,310) (2,544) (5,917) (4,010) (6,841)
Sears Holdings Hoffman Estates (3,113) 122 218 295 812







Total all 76 Chicago Area Largest Corps 39,462 31,697 21,163 3,546 30,608







Annual Increase (Decrease)





…..Amount
7,765 10,534 17,617 (27,062)
…..Percentage
24% 50% 497% -88%







Three Year Increase (2008-2011) Under Obama




…..Amount
35,916



…..Percentage
1013%

















Downstate Illinois Corps





Caterpillar Peoria 4,981 2,758 827 3,585 3,578
Deere Moline 2,808 1,874 873 2,053 1,822
Archer Daniels Midland Decatur 1,242 2,018 1,919 1,688 1,786
RLI Corp Peoria 131 127 94 79 176
First Busey Urbana 30 23 (323) (38) 31







Total all 5 Downstate Illinois Corps 9,192 6,800 3,390 7,367 7,393
Annual % Increase
35% 101%