US BattleGround State Michigan Companies Audited Total Pretax Earnings Declined Markedly in the Two Most Recent Years of the Trump Administration ..... Down By 26% in Annual 2019 and Down By Another 15% in Annual 2018. Motor Vehicle and Parts Companies Audited Total Pretax Earnings Declined Precipitously By 36% in Annual 2019 and By Another 35% in Annual 2018. And This Was All Before The Devastating Earnings Impact From the COVID-19 Pandemic.

From a review of SEC filings, Google Finance and MSN Money, there were 37 Michigan Companies with stock market caps recently of above $1 bil.

The table below shows the Audited Pretax Income (Loss) From Continuing Operations for each of these 37 largest Michigan Companies for each of the three most recent fiscal years.

			Most
			Recent	Audited	Audited	Audited
			Annual	Pretax	Pretax	Pretax
			Audited	Income	Income	Income
			Financial	(Loss)	(Loss)	(Loss)
Michigan Companies	City	State	Sts	FYE	FYE	FYE
Stock Market Caps Above $1 Bil	HQs	HQs	FYE	2019	2018	2017
				$ mils	$ mils	$ mils
Motor Vehicle and Parts Cos
General Motors	Detroit	MI	Dec 19	7,436	8,549	11,863
BorgWarner	Auburn Hills	MI	Dec 19	1,265	1,196	1,063
Aptiv plc	Troy	MI	Dec 19	1,126	1,334	1,255
Lear Corp	Southfield	MI	Dec 19	954	1,538	1,527
Gentex	Zeeland	MI	Dec 19	500	522	532
Meritor	Troy	MI	Sept 19	377	278	381
WABCO Holdings	Auburn Hills	MI	Dec 19	313	464	653
Visteon	Van Buren Township	MI	Dec 19	106	216	223
Gentherm	Northville	MI	Dec 19	59	58	69
Adient plc	Plymouth	MI	Sept 19	2	(1,121)	1,061
Veoneer	Southfield	MI	Dec 19	(521)	(253)	(314)
Ford Motor	Dearborn	MI	Dec 19	(640)	4,345	8,159
Total all 12 Motor Vehicle and Parts Cos				10,977	17,126	26,472
….. % Change From Prior Year				-36%	-35%
Cos in all Other Sectors
Stryker	Kalamazoo	MI	Dec 19	2,562	2,356	2,063
Ally Financial	Detroit	MI	Dec 19	1,967	1,622	1,507
Whirlpool	Benton Harbor	MI	Dec 19	1,552	(21)	887
DTE Energy	Detroit	MI	Dec 19	1,324	1,216	1,287
Kellogg	Battle Creek	MI	Dec 19	1,305	1,329	1,657
Masco	Livonia	MI	Dec 19	914	907	718
Credit Acceptance Corp	Southfield	MI	Dec 19	856	755	584
CMS Energy	Jackson	MI	Dec 19	829	774	886
Penske Automotive Group	Bloomfield Hills	MI	Dec 19	592	604	548
Domino's Pizza	Ann Arbor	MI	Dec 19	483	429	400
Chemical Financial (Now TCF Financial)	Detroit	MI	Dec 19	357	402	245
Taubman Centers	Bloomfield Hills	MI	Dec 19	337	116	113
Flagstar	Troy	MI	Dec 19	266	232	211
Universal Forest Products	Grand Rapids	MI	Dec 19	241	198	176
Herman Miller	Zeeland	MI	May 19	195	168	178
Sun Communities	Southfield	MI	Dec 19	178	120	82
Perrigo Co plc	Allegan	MI	Dec 19	171	291	280
Steelcase	Grand Rapids	MI	Feb 19	164	162	196
Wolverine World Wide	Rockford	MI	Dec 19	146	227	(11)
La-Z-Boy	Monroe	MI	Apr 19	95	129	131
Agree Realty	Bloomfield Hills	MI	Dec 19	81	59	59
TriMas	Bloomfield Hills	MI	Dec 19	78	92	70
Neogen	Lansing	MI	May 19	73	73	67
Altair Engineering	Troy	MI	Dec 19	3	27	(36)
Dow Inc	Midland	MI	Dec 19	(1,247)	3,749	237
Total 25 Cos in all Other Sectors				13,522	16,016	12,535
Total all 37 Michigan Companies				24,499	33,142	39,007
….. % Change From Prior Year				-26%	-15%