South Carolina Largest Companies 2016 Total Audited Earnings Were Up an Off-the-Charts 618% Above Their 2015 Total Audited Earnings Under Quick-Witted Lindsey Graham, Obama and Yellen ....................................................................................... These Companies Had a Total Earnings Improvement From 2008 to 2016 of $994 Mil

From a review of the Google Finance Website and of company financial statements in the US SEC Website, I found the 8 Companies headquartered in the US State of South Carolina 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 8 South Carolina 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
South Carolina 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
Sonoco Products Co	Hartsville	SC	Dec16	288	251	227	211	195	219	202	155	157	212
Domtar Corp	Fort Mill	SC	Dec16	128	142	431	91	172	365	605	310	(573)	70
AVX Corp	Fountain Inn	SC	Mar17	126	102	226	127	(64)	153	244	143	81	149
South State Corp	Columbia	SC	Dec16	101	99	75	49	30	23	52	14	16	22
Ingevity	North Charleston	SC	Dec16	44	84	133	118	122
ScanSource Inc	Greenville	SC	Jun16	64	65	82	35	74	74	49	48	56	43
Blackbaud Inc	Charleston	SC	Dec16	42	26	28	30	7	33	29	28	29	30
3D Systems Corp	Rock Hill	SC	Dec16	(39)	(664)	12	44	39	35	20	1	(6)	(7)
Total all 8				754	105	1,214	705	575	902	1,201	699	(240)	519
2016 Total Earnings % Above 2015				618%
Earnings Improvement 2016 vs 2008				994