Monday, October 1, 2012

Pennsylvania Largest Corps Audited Net Income in 2011 Under Obama More Than Triple Over 2008 Under Bush

From an extensive review of SEC filings, I found 74 Corps headquartered in Pennsylvania with externally audited under US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (US GAAP) After-tax Net Income or Net Loss of at least $100 mil in any of the most recent five fiscal years.

These 74 Largest Pennsylvania Corps filing with the SEC generated Audited US GAAP Total After-tax Net Income from Continuing Operations of $24,357 mil in the most recent fiscal year 2011, which was a profit improvement of a massive $16,549 mil, or up 212%, over the Total After-tax Net Income of $7,808 mil generated by these same 74 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 74 Largest Pennsylvania Corps are better off now than they were in the last year of the Bush/Cheney Administration, the answer is clearly yes, and by $16.5 bil better, or by nearly 212% better, as earnings performance is measured by the prestigious US Accounting Profession.

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

These 74 Largest Pennsylvania Corps generated Total After-tax Net Income of an impressive $19.0 bil in 2007.

Then the financial meltdown hit and these same 74 companies saw their Total After-tax Net Income plummet by $11.2 bil, or by 59% to $7.8 bil in 2008.

Enter President Obama and a US House under Democratic control.

The Obama Economic Stimulus didn't start taking hold until the 4Q 2009.  It was going full throttle in 2010, and what was the result?  Well, it helped these 74 Largest Pennsylvania Corps generate $22.9 bil of Total After-tax Net Income in 2010, which was up by $14.9 bil, or by an off-the-charts 186% over 2009, and more than completely reversed the massive $11.2 bil profit reduction experienced in 2008.

Then came the November 2010 Tea Party Election and the nearly singular focus on severe austerity.  The end result was that the 186% total earnings growth of these 74 Pennsylvania Corps in 2010 over 2009 substantially decelerated to only 7% growth in 2011 over 2010.  And this 7% total earnings growth in 2011 was reduced further 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 leaning blue States like Pennsylvania can really help here, not just by voting in more Pennsylvania 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 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.

Below here is the Audited under US GAAP After-tax Net Income or Net Loss for each of these 74 Largest Pennsylvania Corps for each of the most recent five fiscal years.  The clear majority of these 74 Pennsylvania Corporations have a December Fiscal Year End (FYE).



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

Pennsylvania (Loss) (Loss) (Loss) (Loss) (Loss)

HQs mil $s mil $s mil $s mil $s mil $s
Pennsylvania Largest Corps




Comcast Philadelphia 5,157 3,688 3,628 2,525 2,549
PNC Financial Pittsburgh 3,071 3,024 2,358 796 1,363
ACE Ltd Philadelphia 1,585 3,108 2,549 1,197 2,578
Santander Holdings US Wyomissing 1,258 1,059 162 (2,357) (1,349)
Air Products & Chemicals Allentown 1,253 1,055 651 1,114 1,040
TE Connectivity Ltd Philadelphia Area 1,253 1,065 (3,103) 1,532 (208)
PPG Industries Pittsburgh 1,212 880 426 624 932
HJ Heinz Pittsburgh 940 1,005 932 944 858
Alcoa Pittsburgh 808 400 (924) 450 3,179
AmeriSource Bergen Chesterbrook 707 637 512 469 475
CONSOL Energy Canonsburg 632 359 567 486 293
Hershey Hershey 629 510 436 311 214
Mylan Inc Canonsburg 539 346 248 (200) (1,151)
EQT Pittsburgh 480 228 157 256 257
Universal Health Services King of Prussia 449 276 304 234 214
FMC Philadelphia 414 219 257 347 166
ING USA Annuity & Life Insurance West Chester 398 81 3 (1,381) 129
Crown Holdings Philadelphia 396 452 450 330 601
Ametek Berwyn 385 284 206 247 228
Sunoco Logistics Partners Philadelphia 322 348 250 214 121
Airgas Radnor 313 250 196 261 227
Kennametal Latrobe 311 232 50 (101) 167
Atlas Energy LP Pittsburgh 307 (25) (66) (371) (1)
Lincoln National Radnor 302 951 (415) (10) 1,199
Radian Group Philadelphia 302 (1,806) (148) (411) (1,290)
Triumph Group Berwyn 282 152 85 93 72
Gardner Denver Wayne 280 175 (163) 168 206
Erie Indemnity Erie 268 660 446 (616) 919
Dick's Sporting Goods Coraopolis 264 182 135 (40) 151
Dentsply York 247 267 274 283 260
Endo Pharmaceuticals Chadds Ford 242 287 266 255 227
Penn National Gaming Wyomissing 242 (62) (267) (153) 160
Vishay Intertechnology Malvern 240 360 (57) (1,684) 118
Allegheny Technologies Pittsburgh 223 79 38 574 754
SEI Investments Oaks 207 233 272 268 434
Wesco Intl Pittsburgh 196 115 105 204 233
Urban Outfitters Philadelphia 185 273 220 199 160
Ansys Canonsburg 181 153 116 112 82
Westinghouse Air Brake Wilmerding 170 123 115 131 109
Federated Investors Pittsburgh 155 189 209 229 223
American Eagle Outfitters Pittsburgh 152 182 213 230 434
Fulton Financial Lancaster 146 128 74 (6) 153
EnerSys Reading 144 113 62 82 60
Unisys Blue Bell 141 164 176 (139) (53)
Viropharma Exton 141 126 (11) 64 92
Amerigas Partners Valley Forge 141 167 228 160 193
Liberty Property Trust Malvern 140 130 31 124 114
GNC Holdings Pittsburgh 132 97 70 55 (52)
Kulicke & Soffa Philadelphia 128 142 (64) (25) 17
Carpenter Technology Wyomissing 122 72 2 48 201
Teleflex Limerick 122 90 127 61 (75)
Select Medical Mechanicsburg 113 82 79 26 37
Aramark Philadelphia 113 32 0 34 27
Armstrong World Industries Lancaster 112 11 78 80 153
Safeguard Scientifics Wayne 111 27 67 (46) (52)
Penn Virginia Resource Partners Radnor 96 64 63 103 55
InterDigital King of Prussia 89 154 87 26 20
Natl Penn Bancshares Boyertown 88 21 (348) 32 65
VWR Funding Radnor 58 22 (14) (335) (75)
Toll Brothers Horsham 40 (3) (756) (298) 36
Harleysville Group Harleysville 23 67 86 42 100
Atlas Resource Partners Pittsburgh 20 9 (54) 132 111
Harsco Camp Hill (7) 17 141 252 265
RAIT Financial Trust Philadelphia (38) 111 (440) (617) (436)
United States Steel Pittsburgh (53) (482) (1,406) 2,154 890
SunGard Data Systems Wayne (73) (414) (1,185) (146) (121)
Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust Philadelphia (94) (75) (104) (21) 13
Penn Virginia Corp Radnor (133) (65) (131) 94 35
Black Box Lawrence (248) 53 35 45 39
NCO Group Horsham (249) (145) (72) (144) (66)
Rite Aid Camp Hill (369) (555) (507) (2,912) (1,076)
EME Homer City Generation LP Homer City (686) 27 67 85 88
Sunoco Philadelphia (1,353) 445 (238) 935 851
Education Management Pittsburgh (1,517) 230 169 104 66







Total all 74 Corps
24,357 22,856 8,005 7,808 19,008







Annual Increase (Decrease)





…..Amount
1,501 14,851 197 (11,200)
…..Percentage
7% 186% 3% -59%







Three Year Increase (2008-2011) Under Obama




…..Amount
16,549



…..Percentage
212%