Boca Raton/Palm Beach, Florida Area Companies Generated Total Pretax Income Growth of 46% in 2016, Obama's Last Year in Office ....................................................................................

Then in 2017, Trump's First Year in Office, These Same Boca Raton/Palm Beach Area Cos Generated Audited Total Pretax Income Which Was Precisely Flat With That in 2016.  

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From a review of US SEC filings, there were 10 Companies headquartered in the Boca Raton/Palm Beach Area with stock market caps of more than $1 Bil recently.

Nearly all Republicans, a high percentage of Independents and even many perceptive Democrats all agree as a starting point that for US capitalism to work properly, Companies must generate in the aggregate reasonably healthy profits.  This just didn't happen in 2017 for Boca Raton/Palm Beach Area Companies.

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

From a review of SEC filings, the chart below shows the Audited Gold-Standard US GAAP Pretax Income (Loss) From Continuing Operations for the Fiscal Years Ended 2017, 2016 and 2015 for these 10 Boca Raton/Palm Beach Area Companies with stock market caps above $1 bil recently.

				Year	Year	Year
				2017	2016	2015
				Audited	Audited	Audited
				Pretax	Pretax	Pretax
				Income	Income	Income
				(Loss)	(Loss)	(Loss)
				From	From	From
Boca Raton/Palm Beach, Florida Area Companies	City	State	2017	Continuing	Continuing	Continuing
Stock Market Caps Above $1 Bil	HQs	HQs	FYE	Operations	Operations	Operations
				$ mils	$ mils	$ mils
Nextera Energy	Juno Beach	FL	Dec 17	4,667	4,388	3,990
Affiliated Managers Group	West Palm Beach	FL	Dec 17	1,067	975	1,091
Office Depot	Boca Raton	FL	Dec 17	299	459	115
NextEra Energy Partners LP	Juno Beach	FL	Dec 17	276	437	140
Dycom Industries	Palm Beach Gardens	FL	Jul 17	250	206	136
GEO Group	Boca Raton	FL	Dec 17	164	156	147
KLX Inc	Wellington	FL	Jan 18	141	54	(614)
SBA Communications	Boca Raton	FL	Dec 17	117	87	(167)
Therapeutics MD	Boca Raton	FL	Dec 17	(77)	(90)	(85)
Platform Specialty Products	West Palm Beach	FL	Dec 17	(289)	(48)	(229)
Total all 10 Boca Raton/Palm Beach Area Cos				6,615	6,624	4,524
Trump's First Year 2017
… Pretax Income % Change 2017 vs 2016				0%
Obama's Last Year 2016
… Pretax Income % Increase 2016 vs 2015				46%