Arizona Largest Companies Had $7 Bil Total Audited Earnings Improvement From 2015 to 2016, Mainly Due To Reduced Losses at Freeport-McMoran ........................................................................................ Arizona Largest Companies Had $9.5 Bil Total Audited Earnings Improvement From 2008 to 2016, Due to Many Companies Including to Reduced Losses at Freeport-McMoran, Under the US Senate's Most Courageous, Most Patriotic and With Al Franken the Funniest John McCain

From a review of the Google Finance Website and of company financial statements in the US SEC Website, I found the 32 Companies headquartered in the US State of Arizona 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 32 Arizona 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
Arizona 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
Southern Copper	Phoenix	AZ	Dec16	779	741	1,338	1,624	1,941	2,344	1,563	935	1,414	2,227
Republic Services	Phoenix	AZ	Dec16	613	750	548	589	572	589	508	497	74	290
Avnet	Phoenix	AZ	Jun16	507	572	546	450	567	669	410	(1,130)	490	384
Western Alliance Bancorp	Phoenix	AZ	Dec16	260	194	149	116	75	33	(4)	(147)	(230)	34
Carlisle Companies	Scottsdale	AZ	Dec16	251	320	252	235	229	172	108	155	92	202
Versum Materials	Tempe	AZ	Sep16	220	191	131	(81)	(20)
Taylor Morrison Home	Scottsdale	AZ	Dec16	207	171	226	28	356	8	8	(1)	(397)	(632)
Northern Tier Energy LP	Tempe	AZ	Dec16	187	614	710	300	399
ON Semiconductor	Phoenix	AZ	Dec16	185	209	192	154	(93)	15	293	63	(429)	205
Microchip Technology	Chandler	AZ	Mar17	171	324	365	395	127	337	429	217	246	297
Amkor Technology	Tempe	AZ	Dec16	167	54	133	111	42	93	232	156	(457)	222
Meritage Homes Corp	Scottsdale	AZ	Dec16	150	129	142	124	105	(21)	7	(66)	(292)	(289)
Grand Canyon Education	Phoenix	AZ	Dec16	149	131	111	89	69	51	35	27	7	2
Swift Transportation	Phoenix	AZ	Dec16	149	198	161	155	140	103	(116)	(436)	(147)	(127)
Sprouts Farmers Market	Phoenix	AZ	Dec16	124	129	108	51	20	(27)	5	5	4
Store Capital Corp	Scottsdale	AZ	Dec16	110	82	43	22	7	(3)
Cable One	Phoenix	AZ	Dec16	99	89	147	105	94
Knight Transportation	Phoenix	AZ	Dec16	95	118	104	70	65	61	59	51	56	63
Insight Enterprises	Tempe	AZ	Dec16	85	76	76	71	93	100	75	34	(240)	69
Magellan Health Inc	Scottsdale	AZ	Dec16	76	29	74	125	151	130	139	107	86	94
Healthcare Trust of America	Scottsdale	AZ	Dec16	47	34	46	25	(24)	(6)	(8)	(25)	(28)	(8)
Mobile Mini Inc	Phoenix	AZ	Dec16	47	6	44	25	34	31	13	28	29	44
Spirit Realty Capital	Scottsdale	AZ	Dec16	45	24	(51)	(33)	(73)	(48)	(65)	(74)
Cavco Industries Inc	Phoenix	AZ	Mar17	38	29	24	19	10	30	4	(4)	0	6
TASER International Inc	Scottsdale	AZ	Dec16	17	20	20	18	15	(7)	(4)	(0)	4	15
Godaddy Inc	Scottsdale	AZ	Dec16	(22)	(120)	(143)	(200)	(279)	(324)	(4)	14
Accelerate Diagnostics	Tucson	AZ	Dec16	(66)	(45)	(31)	(15)	(5)	(0)	1	(1)	(2)
Colony Starwood Homes	Scottsdale	AZ	Dec16	(69)	(60)	(78)	(48)	(15)
Apollo Education Group	Phoenix	AZ	Aug16	(81)	47	221	267	398	518	537	610	487	413
Vereit Inc	Phoenix	AZ	Dec16	(201)	(323)	(1,011)	(508)	(41)	(4)
First Solar	Tempe	AZ	Dec16	(358)	546	396	351	(107)	(62)	664	640	348	158
Freeport-McMoRan	Phoenix	AZ	Dec16	(3,832)	(12,180)	(1,022)	3,053	3,578	5,747	5,544	3,534	(10,450)	3,433
Total all 32 Arizona Companies				149	(6,901)	3,971	7,687	8,430	10,529	10,433	5,189	(9,335)	7,102
2016 Total Earnings Better Than:
…..2015 Total Losses				7,050
…..2008 Total Losses				9,484