Oregon Companies Pretax Earnings Up 7% in 2016, Obama's Last Year in Office. Then in 2017, Trump's First Year in Office, These Same Oregon Companies Pretax Earnings Declined Sharply By 13% in 2017 ......................................................................................

From a review of US SEC filings, there were 9 Companies headquartered in Oregon with stock market caps of more than $1 Bil recently.

These fine 9 Oregon Cos posted Audited Gold-Standard US GAAP Total Pretax Income From Continuing Operations in Fiscal Year Ended (FYE) 2017 Which Declined By 13% from their similar Total Pretax Income in FYE 2016. 

This 13% Earnings Decline in 2017 was an earnings growth reversal.

In 2016 in Obama’s last year in office, these same 9 Oregon Cos posted Audited Total Pretax Income From Continuing Operations Which Increased By 7% from their similar Total Pretax Income in FYE 2015.

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 didn't happen for Oregon Cos in 2017.

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 Years Ended 2017, 2016 and 2015 for these 9 Oregon Companies.

				Year	Year	Year
				2017	2016	2015
				Audited	Audited	Audited
				Pretax	Pretax	Pretax
				Income	Income	Income
				(Loss)	(Loss)	(Loss)
				From	From	From
Oregon Companies	City	State	2017	Continuing	Continuing	Continuing
Stock Market Caps Above $1 Bil	HQs	HQs	FYE	Operations	Operations	Operations
				$ mils	$ mils	$ mils
Nike	Beaverton	OR	May 18	4,325	4,886	4,623
Lithia Motors	Medford	OR	Dec 17	347	284	263
Umpqua Holdings	Portland	OR	Dec 17	342	366	347
FLIR Systems	Wilsonville	OR	Dec 17	279	276	305
Portland General Electric	Portland	OR	Dec 17	273	243	217
Columbia Sportswear	Portland	OR	Dec 17	267	257	247
Greenbrier Cos	Lake Oswego	OR	Aug 17	224	397	377
Lattice Semiconductor	Portland	OR	Dec 17	(70)	(44)	(127)
Northwest Natural Gas	Portland	OR	Dec 17	(86)	100	89
Total all 9 Oregon Companies				5,901	6,765	6,341
Trump's First Year 2017
….. Pretax Income % Decrease 2017 vs 2016				-13%
Obama's Last Year 2016
….. Pretax Income % Increase 2016 vs 2015				7%