The 10 Largest Delaware Companies Total Pretax Earnings Collapse to Down 457% in the 1Q 2020 From the 1Q 2019 ...... With These Devastating Delaware Companies Earnings Declines, Delaware Was Effectively in an Economic Depression in the 1Q of 2020, Just Like Texas, Florida, Nevada, Ohio, Kansas, Oklahoma and Hawaii Were.

Since US Presidential candidate Joe Biden and Barack Obama are holding a joint virtual grassroots fundraiser on Tuesday June 23, 2020 at 5:15 PM Eastern time,  I think it might be helpful to research how Delaware Companies have performed recently on the earnings front.

From a review of Company SEC filings and the Google Finance website, I found 10 Delaware Companies with stock market caps of above $1 bil recently.  

The table below shows the US GAAP Pretax Income (Loss) From Continuing Operations for the first quarter of both 2020 and 2019 for each of these 10 Delaware Companies.

		US	US
		GAAP	GAAP
		Pretax	Pretax
		Income	Income
		(Loss)	(Loss)	Better
		First	First	(Worse)
		Quarter	Quarter	%
Delaware Largest Companies		2020	2019	Change
Market Caps Above $1 Bil	City HQs	mils $	mils $
SLM Corp	Newark	484	214
Corteva	Wilmington	408	(251)
Chemours Co	Wilmington	77	107
Chesapeake Utilities	Wilmington	40	38
WSFS Financial	Wilmington	12	19
Interdigital Wireless	Wilmington	0	(6)
Navient	Wilmington	(131)	164
DuPont de Nemours	Wilmington	(566)	(165)
Ashland Global Holdings	Wilmington	(585)	46
Incyte Corp	Wilmington	(704)	104
Total all 10 Delaware Companies		(965)	270	-457%