Alabama Largest Companies 2016 Total Audited Earnings Were Up Sharply By 114% Over 2015 Under Obama and Yellen ............................................................................... Their 2016 Total Audited Earnings Were $2.616 Bil, an Earnings Improvement of $7.433 Bil Under Obama, Bernanke and Yellen as Compared With 2008 Total Audited Losses of $4.817 Bil

From a review of the Google Finance Website and of company financial statements in the US SEC Website, I found the 9 Companies headquartered in the US State of Alabama 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.   

Below here are the reported Audited US GAAP Earnings (Losses) From Continuing Operations of each of these 9 Alabama 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
Alabama Companies	City	State	2016	Income	Income	Income	Income	Income	Income	Income	Income	Income	Income
With 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
Regions Financial	Birmingham	AL	Dec16	1,158	1,075	1,134	1,104	1,180	172	(468)	(1,031)	(5,585)	1,393
Vulcan Materials	Birmingham	AL	Dec16	422	233	207	21	(54)	(75)	(103)	19	3	463
Protective Life	Birmingham	AL	Dec16	393	270	385	393	302	316	225	249	(86)	290
HealthSouth Corp	Birmingham	AL	Dec16	318	254	276	383	231	206	931	110	250	222
Medical Properties Trust	Birmingham	AL	Dec16	226	140	51	89	73	12	1	30	15	21
ProAssurance Corp	Birmingham	AL	Dec16	151	116	197	298	275	287	232	222	178	168
ServisFirst Bancshares	Birmingham	AL	Dec16	81	64	52	42	34	23	17	6	7	5
ADTRAN Inc	Huntsville	AL	Dec16	35	19	45	46	47	139	114	74	79	76
Energen Corp	Birmingham	AL	Dec16	(168)	(946)	100	142	205	175	184	192	322	309
Total all 9 Alabama Companies				2,616	1,225	2,447	2,518	2,293	1,255	1,133	(129)	(4,817)	2,947
2016 Total Earnings % Above 2015 Total Earnings				114%
2016 Total Earnings Improvement Over 2008				7,433

Two key observations:

• All 9 Alabama Companies registered very strong 2016 Earnings Improvement over 2015.
• Look at how Regions Financial was crushed with the 2008-09 financial meltdown.  And then look how they have recovered in 2012 through 2016.