Tampa/St Pete, FL Companies 2 Year 2014 and 2013 Audited Earnings Were $2.513 Bil, a $5.755 Bil Earnings Improvement From the 2 Year 2009 and 2008 Audited Losses of $3.242 Bil

From a very thorough review of SEC filings, I found 7 Companies headquartered in the Tampa/St Pete, Florida Area with Stock Market Capitalizations now of at least $1 bil and which have filed financial statements with the SEC which included earnings disclosures for all fiscal years from 2007 through the current year 2014.

So just how have these 7 largest Tampa/St Pete, Florida Area Companies done on the earnings front before, during and after the 2008 financial meltdown?  Just incredibly well.

The Two Year Total Audited Net Income from Continuing Operation of these 7 largest Tampa/St Pete, Florida Area Companies was $2.513 bil in their Two Most Recent Fiscal Years 2014 and 2013, an increase of a spectacular $5.755 bil over the $3.242 bil Two Year Total Losses generated by these same 7 companies in their 2009 and 2008 fiscal year ends.

Below here are the US GAAP Audited Net Income (Losses) of each of these 7 largest Tampa/St Pete, Florida Area Companies for all of their fiscal years from 2008 through 2014:

			2014	2013	2012	2011	2010	2009	2008
			Audited	Audited	Audited	Audited	Audited	Audited	Audited
			Net	Net	Net	Net	Net	Net	Net
		2014	Income	Income	Income	Income	Income	Income	Income
	City	FYE	(Loss)	(Loss)	(Loss)	(Loss)	(Loss)	(Loss)	(Loss)
Tampa/St Pete Area Co	HQs		mil $s	mil $s	mil $s	mil $s	mil $s	mil $s	mil $s
			$	$	$	$	$	$	$
Raymond James Financial	St Petersburg	Sep	448	397	292	268	223	140	231
Tech Data	Clearwater	Jan 15	175	180	183	217	219	181	115
HSN Inc	St Petersburg	Dec	173	178	136	123	99	72	(2,124)
Bloomin' Brands	Tampa	Dec	96	215	61	109	59	(65)	(866)
WellCare Health Plans	Tampa	Dec	64	175	185	264	(53)	40	(37)
Sykes Enterprises	Tampa	Dec	58	37	40	52	26	45	60
Jabil Circuit	St Petersburg	Aug	(2)	319	334	383	171	(1,166)	132
Total all 7			1,012	1,501	1,231	1,416	744	(753)	(2,489)
Two Years Earnings(Losses):
…2014 and 2013			2,513
…2009 and 2008			(3,242)
…. Two Year Earnings Improvement			5,755

As much as anyone, Tampa Area US House of Representatives Congresswoman Kathy Castor is responsible for the exceptional earnings improvement of these Tampa-St Pete Area Companies.