The 20 South Carolina Companies With Market Caps Above $100 Mil Generated Total Audited US GAAP Earnings For the Two Years 2014 and 2015 Combined of $1.473 Bil, Up 415% From the Two Years 2008 and 2009 Combined of $0.286 Bil

The 2016 US Presidential Race is tightening up some.  The State of South Carolina is now considered a Leaning Donald Trump State with only a 7.6% average of recent polls margin by the excellent Real Clear Politics.
 
Thus, I think it might be helpful to research how the South Carolina Headquartered Companies have performed on the earnings front during the Obama Administration.

From a review of the very fine Google Finance Website and of company financial statements in the US SEC website, I found the 20 Companies headquartered in South Carolina, all with Stock Market Capitalizations now of more than $100 Mil and which also have filed their fiscal year 2015 annual financial statements with the SEC.  Traditional Regulated Utilities were excluded.

Below here are the reported Audited Earnings (Losses) From Continuing Operations of each of these 20 South Carolina Companies for all years reported from 2007 through 2015 where the amounts were presented and in a consistent manner:

				2015	2014	2013	2012	2011	2010	2009	2008	2007
			Most	Audited	Audited	Audited	Audited	Audited	Audited	Audited	Audited	Audited
			Recent	Net	Net	Net	Net	Net	Net	Net	Net	Net
		ST	2015	Income	Income	Income	Income	Income	Income	Income	Income	Income
South Carolina Company	City HQs	HQs	FYE	(Loss)	(Loss)	(Loss)	(Loss)	(Loss)	(Loss)	(Loss)	(Loss)	(Loss)
				$ mils	$ mils	$ mils	$ mils	$ mils	$ mils	$ mils	$ mils	$ mils
Sonoco Products Co	Hartsville	SC	Dec15	251	227	211	195	219	202	155	157	212
Domtar Corp	Fort Mill	SC	Dec15	142	431	91	172	365	605	310	(573)	70
AVX Corp	Fountain Inn	SC	Mar16	102	226	127	(64)	153	244	143	81	149
South State Corp	Columbia	SC	Dec15	99	75	49	30	23	52	14	16	22
World Acceptance Corp	Greenville	SC	Mar16	87	111	107	104	101	91	74	56	50
Ingevity	North Charleston	SC	Dec15	85	133	118	122
ScanSource Inc	Greenville	SC	Jun16	64	65	82	35	74	74	49	48	56
Denny's Corp	Spartanburg	SC	Dec15	36	33	25	22	112	23	42	13	30
Blackbaud Inc	Charleston	SC	Dec15	26	28	30	7	33	29	28	29	30
Regional Management Corp	Greenville	SC	Dec15	23	15	29	25	21	16	10	6	3
Carolina Financial Corp	Charleston	SC	Dec15	14	8	17	17	(1)	(13)	7
Southern First Bancshares	Greenville	SC	Dec15	10	7	5	4	2	1	1	2	3
Delta Apparel Inc	Greenville	SC	Sep15	8	(1)	9	(2)	17	12	6	(1)	6
First Community Corp	Lexington	SC	Dec15	6	5	4	4	3	2	(25)	(7)	4
Oconee Federal Financial	Seneca	SC	Jun16	5	5	4	4	4	2	3	2	1
HCSB Financial	Loris	SC	Dec15	(0)	(0)	2	(10)	(29)	(17)	(1)	2	2
Royal Energy Resources	Charleston	SC	Aug15	(1)	(1)	(0)	(0)	(0)	(1)	(2)	(0)
Kemet Corp	Simpsonville	SC	Mar16	(54)	(20)	(65)	(79)	(2)	58	(69)	(285)	(25)
Benefitfocus Inc	Charleston	SC	Dec15	(62)	(63)	(30)	(15)	(15)	(2)
3D Systems Corp	Rock Hill	SC	Dec15	(664)	12	44	39	35	20	1	(6)	(7)
Total all 20				177	1,296	859	610	1,115	1,399	746	(460)	606
2 Years 2014-5 Total Earnings				1,473
2 Years 2008-9 Total Earnings				286
….. % Increase				415%