Washington DC Companies Total Pretax Earnings Increase By 7% in 2017 and Double That to Up 14% in 2016 ......................................................................................

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

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 Washington DC Companies.

				Year	Year	Year
				2017	2016	2015
				Audited	Audited	Audited
				Pretax	Pretax	Pretax
				Income	Income	Income
			Most	(Loss)	(Loss)	(Loss)
			Recent	From	From	From
Washington DC Companies	City	State	2017	Continuing	Continuing	Continuing
Stock Market Caps Above $1 Bil	HQs	HQs	FYE	Operations	Operations	Operations
				$ mils	$ mils	$ mils
Fannie Mae	Washington	DC	Dec 17	18,447	18,333	16,208
Danaher	Washington	DC	Dec 17	2,939	2,611	2,039
The Carlyle Group LP	Washington	DC	Dec 17	1,132	45	402
WGL Holdings	Washington	DC	Dec 17	289	266	216
CoStar Group	Washington	DC	Dec 17	165	137	3
FTI Consulting	Washington	DC	Dec 17	87	128	105
Cogent Communications	Washington	DC	Dec 17	31	24	13
Washington REIT	Washington	DC	Dec 17	20	119	89
Vanda Pharmaceuticals	Washington	DC	Dec 17	(15)	(18)	(40)
Total all 9 Washington DC Companies				23,095	21,645	19,035
Trump's First Year 2017
….. Pretax Income % Increase 2017 vs 2016				7%
Obama's Last Year 2016
….. Pretax Income % Increase 2016 vs 2015				14%