The 19 Largest South Carolina Cos Saw Their Total Audited Pretax Operating Income Collapse (Down 59%) in Annual 2017 From 2016, Then Recover Very Modestly in Annual 2018 (Up 6%) From the Reduced Low 2017 Total Operating Income Base

Since Democratic 2020 Presidential Candidates Are Campaigning All Over the Key Early Primary State of South Carolina, I Think It Might Be Helpful to Research Just How South Carolina Companies Have Performed in the Most Recent Two Years on the Pretax Operating Earnings Front
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From a review of SEC filings, I found 19 South Carolina Companies with stock markets caps of above $100 mil recently.

The chart below shows the Gold-Standard US GAAP Audited Pretax Operating Income (Loss) for Annual Fiscal Year Ends (FYEs) 2018, 2017 and 2016 for each of these 19 South Carolina Companies.

			Most	Audited	Audited	Audited
			Recent	Pretax	Pretax	Pretax		2018 vs	2017 vs
			Annual	Operating	Operating	Operating		2017	2016
	South		Audited	Income	Income	Income		Better	Better
	Carolina		Financial	(Loss)	(Loss)	(Loss)		(Worse)	(Worse)
South Carolina Companies	City	State	Sts	FYE	FYE	FYE		%	%
Stock Market Caps Above $100 Mil	HQs	HQs	FYE	2018	2017	2016		Change	Change
				$ mils	$ mils	$ mils
Sonoco Products	Hartsville	SC	Dec 18	438	412	505
Domtar	Fort Mill	SC	Dec 18	386	(328)	208
Ingevity	North Charleston	SC	Dec 18	252	191	105
South State	Columbia	SC	Dec 18	224	169	154
AVX Corp	Fountain Inn	SC	Mar 18	180	164	124
World Acceptance	Greenville	SC	Mar 18	101	114	138
Denny's Corp	Spartanburg	SC	Dec 18	74	71	47
ScanSource	Greenville	SC	Jun 18	68	88	97
Carolina Financial Corp	Charleston	SC	Dec 18	62	42	25
Blackbaud	Charleston	SC	Dec 18	59	68	68
Regional Management	Greer	SC	Dec 18	46	40	39
Southern First Bankshares	Greenville	SC	Dec 18	29	24	20
Delta Apparel	Greenville	SC	Sep 18	17	16	16
First Community Corp	Lexington	SC	Dec 18	14	9	9
Bank of South Carolina	Charleston	SC	Dec 18	8	8	7
Oconee Federal Financial	Seneca	SC	Jun 18	5	7	7
Benefitfocus	Charleston	SC	Dec 18	(40)	(38)	(32)
3D Systems Corp	Rock Hill	SC	Dec 18	(43)	(54)	(38)
SCANA Corp	Cayce	SC	Dec 18	(729)	85	1,167
Total all 19 South Carolina Cos				1,151	1,088	2,666		6%	-59%