| US | US | |||
| GAAP | GAAP | |||
| Pretax | Pretax | |||
| Income | Income | |||
| Most | (Loss) | (Loss) | ||
| Recent | Fourth | Fourth | ||
| Fourth | Calendar | Calendar | % | |
| Quarter | Quarter | Quarter | Better | |
| Dow Jones Industrial Companies | End | 2019 | 2018 | (Worse) |
| mils $ | mils $ | |||
| Apple Inc | Dec 2019 | 25,918 | 23,906 | 8% |
| Microsoft | Dec 2019 | 14,085 | 10,385 | 36% |
| JPMorgan Chase | Dec 2019 | 10,565 | 8,841 | 20% |
| Intel | Dec 2019 | 8,068 | 5,635 | 43% |
| ExxonMobil | Dec 2019 | 6,414 | 8,121 | -21% |
| UnitedHealth Group | Dec 2019 | 4,658 | 4,123 | 13% |
| Procter & Gamble | Dec 2019 | 4,532 | 3,916 | 16% |
| Walmart | Oct 2019 | 4,373 | 2,576 | 70% |
| Johnson & Johnson | Dec 2019 | 4,218 | 3,122 | 35% |
| IBM | Dec 2019 | 3,993 | 4,434 | -10% |
| Visa | Dec 2019 | 3,974 | 3,630 | 9% |
| Verizon | Dec 2019 | 3,712 | 1,367 | 172% |
| Cisco Systems | Oct 2019 | 3,686 | 3,909 | -6% |
| Home Depot | Oct 2019 | 3,667 | 3,646 | 1% |
| Merck | Dec 2019 | 2,792 | 2,604 | 7% |
| Walt Disney Co | Dec 2019 | 2,632 | 3,431 | -23% |
| Coca-Cola | Dec 2019 | 2,420 | 965 | 151% |
| Goldman Sachs | Dec 2019 | 2,321 | 2,708 | -14% |
| McDonald's | Dec 2019 | 2,027 | 1,751 | 16% |
| American Express | Dec 2019 | 1,986 | 1,831 | 8% |
| United Technologies | Dec 2019 | 1,593 | 1,788 | -11% |
| Caterpillar | Dec 2019 | 1,365 | 1,367 | 0% |
| Nike | Nov 2019 | 1,249 | 997 | 25% |
| 3M | Dec 2019 | 1,212 | 1,720 | -30% |
| Travelers Companies | Dec 2019 | 1,074 | 746 | 44% |
| Walgreens Boots Alliance | Nov 2019 | 882 | 1,265 | -30% |
| Pfizer | Dec 2019 | (1,508) | (946) | 59% |
| Dow Inc | Dec 2019 | (2,196) | 545 | -503% |
| Boeing | Dec 2019 | (2,342) | 4,046 | -158% |
| Chevron | Dec 2019 | (8,405) | 4,898 | -272% |
| Totals | 108,965 | 117,327 | -7% |
Monday, February 10, 2020
The 30 Dow Jones Industrials' Companies Total Pretax Income Declined By 7% in the Calendar Fourth Quarter of 2019, Very Consistent With the 8% Decline in Annual 2019 Total Pretax Income. And Bernie Sanders Continues To Constantly Spout Out That Dow Jones Companies Continue To Post Record Profits. The Only Two Top Democratic Presidential Candidates Who Are Aware of the Fact That Even Though the Dow Jones Stock Price Index Had a Huge Increase in the Fourth Quarter 2019, Dow Jones Companies' Total Profits Actually Declined in the Fourth Quarter of 2019 Are Pete Buttigieg and Michael Bloomberg. The Other Four Top Candidates Are Devoid of Financial Acumen.
From a review of SEC filings, below are the Gold-Standard US GAAP Pretax Income (Loss) From Continuing Operations for the 30 Dow Jones Industrials' Companies for both the Calendar Fourth Quarter of 2019 and of 2018.
