Largest Missouri Companies Total Pretax Earnings Suffered a Negative Earnings Reversal in the December 2019 Quarter Which Was Down 10% vs Increases of 6% to 8% in the First Three Quarters of 2019. This Was Before Any Coronavirus Earnings Charges Which Are Coming Starting in 2020.

There were 8 Missouri Companies with stock market caps above $10 bil  currently.  

From a review of SEC filings, below are the Gold-Standard US GAAP Pretax Income (Loss) From Continuing Operations for these 8 largest Missouri Companies in each of the four quarters of both 2019 and 2018.

		US	US			US	US			US	US			US	US
		GAAP	GAAP			GAAP	GAAP			GAAP	GAAP			GAAP	GAAP
		Pretax	Pretax			Pretax	Pretax			Pretax	Pretax			Pretax	Pretax
		Income	Income			Income	Income			Income	Income			Income	Income
		(Loss)	(Loss)			(Loss)	(Loss)			(Loss)	(Loss)			(Loss)	(Loss)
		Dec	Dec			Sept	Sept			June	June			March	March
Missouri Companies	Missouri	Quarter	Quarter			Quarter	Quarter			Quarter	Quarter			Quarter	Quarter
Market Caps Above $10 Bil	City HQs	2019	2018			2019	2018			2019	2018			2019	2018
		mils $	mils $			mils $	mils $			mils $	mils $			mils $	mils $
Emerson Electric	St Louis	423	591			826	738			767	768			675	658
Centene	St Louis	260	357			175	24			662	474			685	513
Cerner	Kansas City	192	172			102	214			154	215			206	200
O Reilly Auto	Springfield	409	393			502	456			465	450			414	395
Evergy	Kansas City	62	51			433	420			167	58			111	71
Ameren Corp	St Louis	119	85			458	464			219	314			220	195
Kansas City Southern	Kansas City	208	222			255	247			188	196			138	222
Jack Henry & Associates	Monett	94	88			119	103			79	84			76	90
Total all 8 Missouri Companies		1,767	1,959			2,870	2,666			2,701	2,559			2,525	2,344
….. % Change From Prior Year Quarter		-10%				8%				6%				8%