Missouri Largest Companies 2016 Total US GAAP Audited Earnings Were $18.364 Bil, Up 92% From 2015 Total US GAAP Audited Earnings of $9.575 Bil Under Obama, Yellen and McCaskill ...................................................................................... 2016 Audited US GAAP Total Earnings Were Up 187% Over 2009, Up 206% Over 2008 and Up 218% Over 2007 Under Obama, Bernanke, Yellen and McCaskill ................................................................................... 2016 US GAAP Total Reported Earnings Were Bolstered By Charter Communication's Income Tax Benefit of $3.3 Bil Related to the Reversal of its Deferred Income Tax Asset Valuation Allowance and By Arch Coal's Reorganization Gain of $1.6 Bil ................................................................................... Excluding Both Charter Communications and Arch Coal, the Other 28 Missouri Largest Companies Total Audited Earnings in 2016 Were Up 5% Over 2015

From a review of the Google Finance Website and of company financial statements in the US SEC Website, I found the 30 Companies headquartered in the US State of Missouri 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 Mostly Regulated Utilities Companies were excluded.

Below here are the reported Audited US GAAP Earnings (Losses) From Continuing Operations of each of these 30 Missouri 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
Missouri 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
Express Scripts	St. Louis	MO	Dec16	3,428	2,500	2,035	1,926	1,362	1,279	1,205	827	776	598
Emerson Electric	St Louis	MO	Sep16	1,590	2,517	2,201	1,506	1,444	2,454	1,978	1,715	2,446	2,087
Monsanto	St Louis	MO	Aug16	1,296	2,297	2,749	2,514	2,087	1,657	1,111	2,105	2,027	925
O'Reilly Automotive	Springfield	MO	Dec16	1,038	931	778	670	586	508	419	307	186	194
Reinsurance Group of America	Chesterfield	MO	Dec16	701	502	684	419	632	546	536	407	188	308
Cerner Corp	Kansas City	MO	Dec16	636	539	525	398	397	307	237	193	189	127
Centene Corp	St Louis	MO	Dec16	558	358	261	162	76	117	98	89	84	41
Mallinckrodt plc	Hazelwood	MO	Sep16	489	237	(22)	(28)	(23)	157	146	316	239
Kansas City Southern	Kansas City	MO	Dec16	480	485	504	353	379	332	180	68	182	154
H & R Block	Kansas City	MO	Apr17	420	384	487	500	465	346	393	489	513	446
Amdocs Ltd	Chesterfield	MO	Sep16	409	446	422	412	391	347	344	326	379	365
Leggett & Platt	Carthage	MO	Dec16	367	328	225	186	232	173	177	121	128	65
Commerce Bancshares	Kansas City	MO	Dec16	277	267	263	261	271	260	222	169	189	207
Jack Henry & Associates	Monett	MO	Jun16	249	211	187	168	152	128	117	103	105
EPR Properties	Kansas City	MO	Dec16	225	194	176	176	142	130	117	35	127	98
DST Systems	Kansas City	MO	Dec16	179	310	561	325	384	178	318	242	243	875
Edgewell Personal Care	Chesterfield	MO	Sep16	178	(296)	118	155	126	33
UMB Financial	Kansas City	MO	Dec16	159	116	121	134	123	106	91	89	98	74
Panera Bread	Saint Louis	MO	Dec16	145	149	179	196	173	136	112	87	69	57
Belden	St Louis	MO	Dec16	128	67	74	105	43	101	61	(7)	(317)	136
Energizer Holdings	St Louis	MO	Sep16	128	(4)	157	115	187
Stifel Financial Corp	St Louis	MO	Dec16	82	92	179	173	145	84	1	76	56	32
Caleres Inc	St Louis	MO	Jan17	66	82	83	54	35	6	35	10	(135)	60
Hostess Brands	Kansas City	MO	Dec16	52	89	81
ESCO Technologies	St Louis	MO	Sep16	46	42	43	31	35	53	45	49	48	31
ATNI Intl	Beverly	MO	Dec16	24	32	58	37	24	12	10	37	40	43
Post Holdings	St Louis	MO	Sep16	(3)	(115)	(343)	15	50	(424)	92	101	86	117
Olin Corp	Clayton	MO	Dec16	(4)	(1)	105	179	150	242	65	136	158	101
All 28 Excluding Arch Coal and Charter Communications				13,343	12,759	12,891	11,142	10,068	9,268	8,110	8,090	8,104	7,141
…..2016 Total Earnings Above 2015				5%
Charter Communications	St Louis	MO	Dec16	3,745	(271)	(183)	(169)	(304)	(369)	(237)	(1,729)	(2,451)	(1,534)
Arch Coal	St Louis	MO	Dec16	1,276	(2,913)	(558)	(745)	(738)	142	159	42	354	175
Total all 30				18,364	9,575	12,150	10,228	9,026	9,041	8,032	6,403	6,007	5,782
…..2016 Total Earnings Above 2015				92%
…..2016 Total Earnings Above 2009				187%
…..2016 Total Earnings Above 2008				206%
…..2016 Total Earnings Above 2007				218%