The 24 Largest Indiana Cos, All With Stock Market Caps Above $1 Bil, All With December Year Ends and All Audited By One of the Very Prestigious Big 4 CPA Firms, Generated Audited Total Pretax Income of $16.797 Bil For the Year Ended December 31, 2016 in Obama's Last Year in Office, Up a Very Robust 18.9% From That in Annual 2015 of $14.127 Bil .......................................................................................

Then in 2017, Trump's First Year in Office, These Same 24 Indiana Cos Generated Audited Total Pretax Income of $16.406 Bil For the Year Ended December 31, 2017, Down 2.3% From That in 2016 of $16.797 Bil   

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Donald Trump's Claim That US Companies Will Generate Substantially Higher Profits in His Administration Than Under Any Other US Presidential Administration Hasn't Proved To Be the Case in Indiana

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My Focus is on Pretax Income Rather Than After-Tax Net Income Because Income Taxes are Simply a Transfer of Financial Wealth From or To the US Federal, US State and Foreign  Governments To or From US Corporations.  It Has Nothing Whatsoever to do with Company Performance.

But Even on an After-Tax Net Income Basis, These Same 24 Indiana Companies Generated Audited Net Income of $12.239 Bil in 2016, Obama's Last Year in Office, Up a Very Robust 17.0% From That in Annual 2015 of $10.459 Bil ...... While These Same 24 Indiana Companies Posted Audited Net Income of $12.320 Bil in Annual 2017, Trump's First Year in Office, Up Only a Very Modest 0.7% From That in Annual 2016 of $12.239 Bil  

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Since Donald Trump will be holding a huge political campaign rally in his stronghold of Evansville, Indiana on this Thursday August 30, 2018, and with perhaps up to 1,000 Peaceful Protesters also expected to be there, I think it would be helpful to research how Indiana Companies have performed on the earnings front in the First Year 2017 of the Trump Administration and compare it to how they have performed in the Last Year 2016 of the Obama Administration.

From a review of SEC filings, the first chart below shows the Audited Gold-Standard US GAAP Pretax Income (Loss) From Continuing Operations for the Years Ended December 31, 2017, 2016 and 2015 along with the related Annual Percentage Changes for 2017 and 2016 for the 24 Indiana Companies including REITs with December Year Ends and with stock market caps above $1 bil presently.

				Trump	Obama
				First	Last	Obama
				Year	Year	Year
				2017	2016	2015		Trump	Obama
				Audited	Audited	Audited		Better	Better
				Pretax	Pretax	Pretax		(Worse)	(Worse)
				Income	Income	Income		%	%
				(Loss)	(Loss)	(Loss)		Change	Change
Indiana Companies				From	From	From		2017	2016
Stock Market Caps Above $1 Bil	City	State	2017	Continuing	Continuing	Continuing		vs	vs
With December Year Ends	HQs	HQs	FYE	Operations	Operations	Operations		2016	2015
				$ mils	$ mils	$ mils
Anthem	Indianapolis	IN	Dec 17	3,964	4,555	4,631		-13%	-2%
Cummins	Columbus	IN	Dec 17	2,365	1,930	2,025		23%	-5%
Simon Property Group	Indianapolis	IN	Dec 17	2,245	2,135	2,139		5%	0%
Eli Lilly	Indianapolis	IN	Dec 17	2,197	3,374	2,790		-35%	21%
Steel Dynamics	Fort Wayne	IN	Dec 17	935	564	(242)		66%	333%
Allison Transmission Holdings	Indianapolis	IN	Dec 17	527	341	289		55%	18%
CNO Financial Group	Carmel	IN	Dec 17	481	353	368		36%	-4%
Zimmer Biomet Holdings	Warsaw	IN	Dec 17	465	400	153		16%	161%
NiSource	Merrillville	IN	Dec 17	443	510	340		-13%	50%
OneMain Holdings	Evansville	IN	Dec 17	431	356	(226)		21%	258%
KAR Auction Services	Carmel	IN	Dec 17	398	355	341		12%	4%
Allegion PLC	Carmel	IN	Dec 17	396	295	209		34%	41%
Duke Realty Corp	Indianapolis	IN	Dec 17	290	298	184		-3%	62%
Vectren	Evansville	IN	Dec 17	262	325	297		-19%	9%
LCI Industries	Elkhart	IN	Dec 17	213	199	114		7%	75%
Old National Bancorp	Evansville	IN	Dec 17	169	200	163		-16%	23%
First Merchants Corp	Muncie	IN	Dec 17	134	109	91		23%	20%
Wabash National Corp	Lafayette	IN	Dec 17	123	185	163		-34%	13%
Patrick Industries Inc	Elkhart	IN	Dec 17	113	84	66		35%	27%
Franklin Electric Co	Fort Wayne	IN	Dec 17	105	104	86		1%	21%
1st Source Corp	South Bend	IN	Dec 17	101	89	89		13%	0%
Lakeland Financial Corp	Warsaw	IN	Dec 17	90	77	69		17%	12%
Kite Realty Trust	Indianapolis	IN	Dec 17	14	3	29		367%	-90%
Endocyte	Lafayette	IN	Dec 17	(55)	(44)	(41)		-25%	-7%
Total all 24 Indiana Cos				16,406	16,797	14,127		-2.3%	18.9%

Also from a review of SEC filings, the following chart below shows the Audited Gold-Standard US GAAP After-Tax Net Income (Loss) From Continuing Operations for the Years Ended December 31, 2017, 2016 and 2015 along with the related Annual Percentage Changes for 2017 and 2016 for the 24 Indiana Companies including REITs with December Year Ends and with stock market caps above $1 bil presently.

				Trump	Obama
				First	Last	Obama
				Year	Year	Year
				2017	2016	2015		Trump	Obama
				Audited	Audited	Audited		Better	Better
				Net	Net	Net		(Worse)	(Worse)
				Income	Income	Income		%	%
				(Loss)	(Loss)	(Loss)		Change	Change
Indiana Companies				From	From	From		2017	2016
Stock Market Caps Above $1 Bil	City	State	2017	Continuing	Continuing	Continuing		vs	vs
With December Year Ends	HQs	HQs	FYE	Operations	Operations	Operations		2016	2015
				$ mils	$ mils	$ mils
Anthem	Indianapolis	IN	Dec 17	3,843	2,470	2,560		56%	-4%
Cummins	Columbus	IN	Dec 17	994	1,456	1,470		-32%	-1%
Simon Property Group	Indianapolis	IN	Dec 17	2,245	2,135	2,139		5%	0%
Eli Lilly	Indianapolis	IN	Dec 17	(204)	2,738	2,408		-107%	14%
Steel Dynamics	Fort Wayne	IN	Dec 17	806	360	(145)		124%	348%
Allison Transmission Holdings	Indianapolis	IN	Dec 17	504	215	182		134%	18%
CNO Financial Group	Carmel	IN	Dec 17	176	358	271		-51%	32%
Zimmer Biomet Holdings	Warsaw	IN	Dec 17	1,813	305	146		494%	109%
NiSource	Merrillville	IN	Dec 17	129	328	199		-61%	65%
OneMain Holdings	Evansville	IN	Dec 17	183	243	(93)		-25%	-361%
KAR Auction Services	Carmel	IN	Dec 17	362	222	215		63%	3%
Allegion PLC	Carmel	IN	Dec 17	277	231	155		20%	49%
Duke Realty Corp	Indianapolis	IN	Dec 17	291	298	188		-2%	59%
Vectren	Evansville	IN	Dec 17	216	212	197		2%	8%
LCI Industries	Elkhart	IN	Dec 17	133	130	74		2%	76%
Old National Bancorp	Evansville	IN	Dec 17	96	134	117		-28%	15%
First Merchants Corp	Muncie	IN	Dec 17	96	81	65		19%	25%
Wabash National Corp	Lafayette	IN	Dec 17	111	119	104		-7%	14%
Patrick Industries Inc	Elkhart	IN	Dec 17	86	56	42		54%	33%
Franklin Electric Co	Fort Wayne	IN	Dec 17	79	79	74		0%	7%
1st Source Corp	South Bend	IN	Dec 17	68	58	57		17%	2%
Lakeland Financial Corp	Warsaw	IN	Dec 17	57	52	46		10%	13%
Kite Realty Trust	Indianapolis	IN	Dec 17	14	3	29		367%	-90%
Endocyte	Lafayette	IN	Dec 17	(55)	(44)	(41)		25%	7%
Total all 24 Indiana Cos				12,320	12,239	10,459		0.7%	17.0%