Tuesday, October 2, 2012

New York Largest Corps Audited Net Income in 2011 Under Obama Up $312 Bil Over 2008 Under Bush

From an extensive review of SEC filings, I found 79 Corps headquartered in New York with externally audited under US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (US GAAP) After-tax Net Income or Net Loss from Continuing Operations of at least $500 mil in any of the most recent five fiscal years.

These 79 Largest New York Corps filing with the SEC generated Audited US GAAP Total After-tax Net Income from Continuing Operations of $169 bil in the most recent fiscal year 2011, which was a profit improvement of a massive $312 bil over the Total After-tax Net Loss of $143 bil generated by these same 79 Largest New York 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 79 Largest New York 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 $312 bil better, as audited earnings performance is measured by the prestigious US Accounting Profession.

Another key story here relates to the total earnings changes by year.

In the year before the financial meltdown, these 79 Largest New York Corps generated Total After-tax Net Income of an impressive $125 bil in 2007.

Then the financial meltdown hit and these same 79 companies saw their Total After-tax Net Income plummet by a massive $268 bil to a Total After-tax Loss of $143 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 hold until the latter part of 2009.  This Obama Economic Stimulus was going full throttle in 2010.

So, what was the result of both the substantial financial fixes and the Obama Economic Stimulus on these 79 Largest New York Corps?  Well, it helped these 79 Largest New York Corps generate $105 bil of Total After-tax Net Income in 2009, which was a one-year profit improvement of a staggering $248 bil, wiping out 93% of the $268 bil profit drop of these same 79 New York Corps in the financial meltdown year of 2008.

Further, these 79 Largest New York Corps generated Total After-tax Net Income of $177 bil in 2010, an increase of $73 bil, or a very robust 69% from 2009.

Thus when you combine the first two years of the Obama Administration, when both the US House and the US Senate were under Democratic control, these 79 Largest New York Corps had a total profit improvement of $321 bil to $177 bil in 2010, which surpassed by a huge 42% the pre-Great Recession Total After-tax Net Income of these same 79 companies of $125 bil in 2007. 

Then came the November 2010 Tea Party Election and the nearly singular focus on severe austerity.  The end result was that the 69% total earnings growth of these 79 New York Corps in 2010 over 2009 completely reversed course by declining by 5% in 2011 as compared with 2010.  And this total earnings decline continued in the first half of 2012.

I think it is really important that this 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 New York can really help here, not just by voting in more New York 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, Joe Walsh in Illinois, 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 they are severely harming the country's economy. 

Of these 79 Largest New York Corps, 40 of them are Financial Corps and the other 39 are in Non-Financial Sectors.

The 40 Largest New York Financial Corps generated a Total After-tax Net Loss of $164 bil in 2008, the last year of the Bush/Cheney Presidential term.  On the other hand, in the most recent 2011 year, these same 40 Financial Corps generated a Total After-tax Net Income of $82 bil, for a massive profit improvement of more than $246 bil in the first three years of the Obama Administration. 

And the 39 Largest New York Non-Financial Corps also performed superbly during the Obama Administration.  These 39 Largest New York Non-Financial Corps had their Total After-tax Net Income in 2008 of $21 bil balloon up to $87 bil in 2011, for a stellar increase of 312% during the first three years of the Obama Administration.

Below here is the Audited under US GAAP After-tax Net Income or Net Loss from Continuing Operations for each of these 79 Largest New York Corps for each of the most recent five fiscal years.  The overwhelming majority of these 79 New York Corporations have a December Fiscal Year End (FYE).  The first section below shows the earnings and loss information related to the 40 New York Financial Corps.  The last section below shows such earnings and loss information related to the 39 New York Non-Financial 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

(Loss) (Loss) (Loss) (Loss) (Loss)

mil $s mil $s mil $s mil $s mil $s
New York Largest Corps
Financial Corps



JPMorgan Chase 18,976 17,370 11,652 3,699 15,365
AIG 16,971 12,077 (12,818) (93,346) 4,609
Citigroup 11,103 10,951 (1,066) (32,029) 3,192
MetLife 6,951 2,747 (2,336) 3,462 4,087
American Express 4,899 4,057 2,137 2,871 4,126
Morgan Stanley 4,696 5,477 1,427 1,295 2,307
Goldman Sachs 4,442 8,354 13,385 2,322 11,599
Bank NY Mellon 2,569 2,647 (813) 1,455 2,228
BlackRock 2,339 2,050 897 629 1,357
AXA Equitable Life Insurance 2,313 2,308 (1,807) 3,695 1,926
MasterCard 1,904 1,847 1,463 (254) 1,086
Icahn Enterprises 1,764 744 1,224 (3,142) 510
Marsh & McLennan 982 565 531 381 502
KKR 876 7,776 6,852 (13,055) 2,401
M&T Bank 859 736 380 556 654
Assured Guaranty 776 494 85 69 (303)
SL Green Realty 625 277 71 42 140
NYSE Euronext 603 558 212 (740) 649
Vornado Realty 594 715 79 231 540
Moodys 578 513 407 462 707
Assurant 546 279 431 448 654
NY Community Bancorp 480 541 399 78 279
HSBC USA 455 1,006 (167) (1,698) 114
Arch Capital Group 436 843 877 291 858
Nasdaq OMX Group 383 389 263 315 518
Annaly Capital Management  344 1,267 1,961 346 415
Jefferies Group 286 240 312 (595) 148
Newcastle Investment 259 622 (210) (2,976) (65)
Capital Trust 252 (185) (576) (58) 84
ETrade Financial 157 (28) (1,298) (809) (1,442)
Gramercy Capital 19 (65) (535) 35 68
Primus Guaranty (38) 247 1,467 (1,700) (559)
iStar Financial (54) (206) (793) (326) 129
Everest Re Group (80) 611 807 (19) 839
Northstar Realty Finance (258) (391) (154) 699 49
XL Group (404) 643 75 (2,554) 300
Fortress Investment Group (1,117) (782) (909) (1,221) (1,057)
Apollo Global Management (1,304) 543 (95) (2,890) 1,240
MBIA (1,319) 53 634 (2,673) (1,922)
Merrill Lynch (1,748) 3,776 7,340 (27,704) (8,637)






Total all 40 Largest Financial Corps 82,115 91,666 31,791 (164,408) 49,695






Annual Increase (Decrease) all 40 Largest NY Financial Corps


…..Amount (9,551) 59,875 196,199 (214,103)
…..Percentage -10% 188% 119% -431%






Three Year Increase (2008-2011) all 40 Largest NY Financial Corps Under Obama

…..Amount 246,523



…..Percentage 150%















Non-Financial Corps




IBM 15,855 14,833 13,425 12,334 10,418
Verizon 10,198 10,217 11,601 3,962 12,254
Phillip Morris Intl 8,879 7,498 6,552 7,150 6,314
Pfizer 8,739 8,211 8,529 7,938 8,150
PepsiCo 6,462 6,338 5,979 5,166 5,670
Bristol Myers Squibb 5,260 4,513 4,420 3,686 2,052
Time Warner 2,882 2,571 2,084 (5,090) 1,887
Corning 2,805 3,558 2,008 5,257 2,150
Colgate Palmolive 2,554 2,313 2,397 2,037 1,804
Viacom 2,183 1,876 1,655 1,274 1,625
NBC Universal Media 1,836 1,516 1,316 1,842 2,163
Loews 1,696 2,007 1,385 580 2,199
Hess 1,676 2,138 807 2,357 1,953
Time Warner Cable 1,667 1,313 1,092 (7,963) 1,222
News Corp 1,407 3,148 2,644 (3,310) 5,518
CBS 1,291 724 227 (11,673) 1,231
Omnicom Group 1,060 924 871 1,114 1,087
Coach 1,039 881 735 623 783
Forest Labs 979 1,047 682 768 968
L-3 Communications 968 966 911 929 754
Bunge Ltd 940 2,388 335 1,326 924
CA 938 823 759 661 472
Estee Lauder 861 704 482 227 484
McGraw-Hill 858 848 753 807 1,017
Ralph Lauren 681 568 480 406 422
Arrow Electronics 599 480 124 (614) 411
Interpublic Group 552 281 143 318 184
Paychex 548 515 477 534 576
Avon Products 526 595 619 883 533
Constellation Brands 445 560 99 (301) (613)
Sirius XM Radio 427 43 (352) (5,317) (565)
IAC/InterActiveCorp 176 (9) (956) 142 1
Fifth & Pacific Companies 145 (99) (124) (511) (432)
Loral Space & Communications 127 487 232 (693) 53
Jones Group 52 54 (86) (766) 46
Leucadia National 17 1,889 532 (2,583) 469
AOL 13 (791) 251 (1,521) 1,213
Momentive Performance Materials (140) (63) (42) (998) (254)
ITT (578) (132) (111) 32 61






Total all 39 Largest Non-Financial Corps 86,623 85,733 72,935 21,013 75,204






Annual Increase (Decrease) all 39 Largest NY Non-Financial Corps


…..Amount 890 12,798 51,922 (54,191)
…..Percentage 1% 18% 247% -72%






Three Year Increase (2008-2011) all 39 Largest NY Non-Financial Corps Under Obama
…..Amount 65,610



…..Percentage 312%















Grand Total all 79 Largest NY Corps 168,738 177,399 104,726 (143,395) 124,899






Annual Increase (Decrease) all 79 Largest NY Corps



…..Amount (8,661) 72,673 248,121 (268,294)
…..Percentage -5% 69% 173% -215%






Three Year Increase (2008-2011) all 79 Largest NY Corps Under Obama

…..Amount 312,133



…..Percentage 218%