Vermont Largest Companies 2016 Total Audited Earnings Were Up a Very Robust 89% Over 2015 Under Obama, Yellen and Bernie Sanders

From a review of the Google Finance Website and of company financial statements in the US SEC Website, I found the 3 Companies headquartered in the US State of Vermont with Stock Market Capitalizations either very late in 2016 or very early in 2017 of more than $100 Mil.

Below here are the reported Audited US GAAP Earnings (Losses) From Continuing Operations of each of these 3 Vermont Companies for all of the fiscal years from 2007 through 2016:

				2016	2015	2014	2013	2012	2011	2010	2009	2008	2007
			Most	Audited	Audited	Audited	Audited	Audited	Audited	Audited	Audited	Audited	Audited
			Recent	Net	Net	Net	Net	Net	Net	Net	Net	Net	Net
Vermont Companies	City	State	2016	Income	Income	Income	Income	Income	Income	Income	Income	Income	Income
Market Caps Above $100 Mil	HQs	HQs	FYE	(Loss)	(Loss)	(Loss)	(Loss)	(Loss)	(Loss)	(Loss)	(Loss)	(Loss)	(Loss)
				$ mils	$ mils	$ mils	$ mils	$ mils	$ mils	$ mils	$ mils	$ mils	$ mils
Merchants Bancshares Inc	South Burlington	VT	Dec16	15	13	12	15	15	15	15	12	12	11
Union Bankshares Inc	Morrisville	VT	Dec16	9	8	8	7	7	5	6	5	5	6
Casella Waste Systems Inc	Rutland	VT	Dec16	(7)	(12)	(27)	(50)	(78)	(4)	(16)	(72)	(11)	(19)
Total all 3				17	9	(7)	(28)	(56)	16	5	(55)	6	(2)
2016 Total Earnings % Above 2015				89%

Virginia Largest Companies Earnings Were On Fire, Led By Altria Group, With 2016 Total Audited Earnings of $42.942 Bil, Up 33% Over Their 2015 Total Audited Earnings of $32.351 Bil Under Obama, Yellen, the Persistent Warner, Keane and McAuliffe ..................................................................................... 2016 Total Earnings of $42.942 Bil Were an Earnings Improvement of $90.394 Bil From Their Total Losses of $47.452 Bil in 2008 ..................................................................................... Four Year 2013 to 2016 Total Audited Earnings Were $180 Bil, an Earnings Improvement of $218 Bil Under Obama, Yellen, Bernanke, the Doubly Persistent Warner and Keane, From Their Total Losses of $38 Bil For the Four Years 2007 to 2010

From a review of the Google Finance Website and of company financial statements in the US SEC Website, I found the 56 Companies headquartered in the US State of Virginia with Stock Market Capitalizations either very late in 2016 or very early in 2017 of more than $1 Bil and which also have filed their fiscal year 2016 annual financial statements with the SEC.  Traditional Highly Regulated Utilities Companies were excluded.

Below here are the reported Audited US GAAP Earnings (Losses) From Continuing Operations of each of these 56 Virginia Companies for all of the fiscal years from 2007 through 2016 where the earnings numbers were reported and also where they were prepared in a fairly consistent manner with those in the most recent years:

				2016	2015	2014	2013	2012	2011	2010	2009	2008	2007
			Most	Audited	Audited	Audited	Audited	Audited	Audited	Audited	Audited	Audited	Audited
			Recent	Net	Net	Net	Net	Net	Net	Net	Net	Net	Net
Virginia Companies	City	State	2016	Income	Income	Income	Income	Income	Income	Income	Income	Income	Income
Market Caps Above $1 Bil	HQs	HQs	FYE	(Loss)	(Loss)	(Loss)	(Loss)	(Loss)	(Loss)	(Loss)	(Loss)	(Loss)	(Loss)
				$ mils	$ mils	$ mils	$ mils	$ mils	$ mils	$ mils	$ mils	$ mils	$ mils
Altria Group	Richmond	VA	Dec16	14,244	5,243	5,070	4,535	4,183	3,393	3,907	3,208	3,090	3,131
Freddie Mac	McLean	VA	Dec16	7,815	6,376	7,690	48,668	10,982	(5,266)	(14,026)	(21,554)	(50,116)	(3,102)
Capital One Financial	McLean	VA	Dec16	3,770	4,012	4,423	4,354	3,709	3,253	3,050	987	85	2,592
General Dynamics	Falls Church	VA	Dec16	3,062	2,965	2,673	2,486	(381)	2,552	2,628	2,407	2,478	2,080
Northrop Grumman	Falls Church	VA	Dec16	2,200	1,990	2,069	1,952	1,978	2,086	1,904	1,573	(1,379)	1,751
Norfolk Southern	Norfolk	VA	Dec16	1,668	1,556	2,000	1,910	1,749	1,916	1,496	1,034	1,716	1,464
Avalon Bay Communities	Arlington	VA	Dec16	1,034	742	659	58	250	152	92	77	99	219
Dollar Tree	Chesapeake	VA	Jan17	896	282	599	597	619	488	397	321	230	201
CarMax	Richmond	VA	Feb17	627	623	597	493	434	414	377	282	59	182
Huntington Ingalls Industries	Newport News	VA	Dec16	573	404	338	261	146	(100)	131	124	(2,420)	276
Tegna Inc	McLean	VA	Dec16	495	421	756	99	126	75
Markel Corp	Glen Allen	VA	Dec16	460	589	324	284	258	148	268	202	(58)	406
Advance Auto Parts	Roanoke	VA	Dec16	460	473	494	392	388	395	346	270	238	238
Verisign	Reston	VA	Dec16	441	375	355	544	312	139	70	92	32	(245)
Willis Towers Watson plc	Arlington	VA	Dec16	438	384	373	377	(433)	219	470	457	323	426
NVR Inc	Reston	VA	Dec16	425	383	282	266	181	129	206	192	101	334
Hilton Worldwide Holdings	McLean	VA	Dec16	364	1,416	682	460	352	253	128	(532)	(5,663)
AES Corp	Arlington	VA	Dec16	361	787	1,091	700	(518)	1,575	1,481	1,809	1,929	857
CSRA Inc	Falls Church	VA	Mar17	316	103	268	254	269	25	249
Orbital ATK Inc	Dulles	VA	Dec16	293	70	(64)	165	194	218
Booz Allen Hamilton Holding	McLean	VA	Mar17	252	294	233	232	219	240	85	25	(436)	89
Leidos Holdings	Reston	VA	Dec16	246	243	(330)	84	323	(239)	311	220	418	367
NewMarket Corp	Richmond	VA	Dec16	243	239	233	242	237	205	176	162	73	79
Dominion Midstream Partners LP	Richmond	VA	Dec16	230	197	107	109	97
BWX Technologies Inc	Lynchburg	VA	Dec16	184	141	30	185
MAXIMUS Inc	Reston	VA	Sep16	180	160	145	117	76	82	69	(11)	30	55
Neustar Inc	Sterling	VA	Dec16	169	175	164	163	156	124	124	116	134	111
Graham Holdings	Arlington	VA	Dec16	169	(141)	765	65	(49)	37
Science Applications Intl	McLean	VA	Jan17	148	117	141	113	182	182	208	194	176	NA
Apple Hospitality REIT	Richmond	VA	Dec16	145	117	7	82	69	50	(3)	3	2	0
CACI International	Arlington	VA	Jun16	143	126	136	153	168	145	107	90	78	78
Universal Corp	Richmond	VA	Mar17	113	118	120	155	141	101	165	170	133	116
Iridium Communications Inc	McLean	VA	Dec16	111	7	75	63	65	41	20	(44)	2
Owens & Minor	Mechansville	VA	Dec16	109	103	67	111	109	115	111	117	101	71
Pra Group	Norfolk	VA	Dec16	91	168	177	177	126	101	74	44	45	48
MicroStrategy Inc	Tysons Corner	VA	Dec16	91	106	5	27	22	22	46	61	42	59
Beacon Roofing Supply	Herndon	VA	Sep16	90	62	54	73	76	59	35	52	40	25
Union Bankshares Corp	Richmond	VA	Dec16	77	67	52	34	35	30	23	8	15	20
James River Group Hldgs Ltd	Richmond	VA	Dec16	74	53	45	67	9	38
American Woodward Corp	Winchester	VA	Apr17	71	59	35	20	10	(21)	(20)	(22)	(3)	4
Performance Food Group	Richmond	VA	Jun16	68	57	16	8	21	14	1
Trex Company Inc	Winchester	VA	Dec16	68	48	42	35	3	(12)	(10)	(17)	5	(78)
TowneBank	Portsmouth	VA	Dec16	67	62	42	42	38	33	30	27	24	23
Mantech Intl	Fairfax	VA	Dec16	56	51	47	(6)	95	133	125	112	90	67
Gannett Co Inc	McLean	VA	Dec16	53	146	211	274	277	334	431
Cardinal Financial Corp	McLean	VA	Dec16	50	47	33	26	45	28	18	10	0	4
ICF Intl Inc	Fairfax	VA	Dec16	47	39	40	39	38	35	27	22	29	41
Brink's Company	Richmond	VA	Dec16	47	(25)	(86)	90	123	121	97	227	172	101
Alarm.com Holdings	Tysons	VA	Dec16	10	12	14	5	9	10	4
GTT Communications Inc	McLean	VA	Dec16	5	19	(23)	(21)	(2)	0	1	0	(42)	(4)
Shenandoah Telecommunications	Edinburg	VA	Dec16	(1)	41	34	30	17	14	19	25	26	22
Engility Holdings Inc	Chantilly	VA	Dec16	(6)	(230)	40	55	(345)	26	(8)	157	166	166
CEB Inc	Arlington	VA	Dec16	(35)	93	51	32	37	57	52	50	67	82
Genworth Financial	Richmond	VA	Dec16	(38)	(6)	(1,205)	680	514	35	136	(485)	(655)	1,154
Computer Sciences Corp	Tysons	VA	Mar17	(100)	72	(207)	520	(1)	(769)	(2,942)	409	1,072	905
Evolent Health	Arlington	VA	Dec16	(227)	320	(25)	20
Total all 56				42,942	32,351	31,964	72,956	27,738	13,435	2,686	(7,329)	(47,452)	14,415
2016 Total Earnings % Above 2015				33%
Earnings Improvement 2016 Over 2008				90,394
Four Year Earnings (Losses):
….. 2013 to 2016				180,213
….. 2007 to 2010				(37,679)
……. Four Year Earnings Improvement				217,892