The 9 Largest Hawaii Companies Total Pretax Earnings Plummet to Down 105% in the 1Q 2020 From the 1Q 2019 ...... Since These Horrific Hawaii Companies Earnings Declines Were Totally Across the Board, Hawaii Was Effectively in an Economic Depression in the 1Q of 2020, Just Like Texas, Florida, Nevada, Ohio, Kansas and Oklahoma 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 Hawaii Companies have performed recently on the earnings front.

From a review of Company SEC filings and the Google Finance website, I found 9 Hawaii Companies with stock market caps of above $200 mil 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 9 Hawaii Companies.

		US	US
		GAAP	GAAP
		Pretax	Pretax
		Income	Income
		(Loss)	(Loss)	Better
		First	First	(Worse)
		Quarter	Quarter	%
Hawaii Largest Companies		2020	2019	Change
Market Caps Above $200 Mil	City HQs	mils $	mils $
First Hawaiian	Honolulu	50	94
Bank of Hawaii	Honolulu	42	72
Hawaiian Electric Industries	Honolulu	40	58
Central Pacific Financial	Honolulu	11	21
Territorial Bancorp	Honolulu	6	8
Alexander & Baldwin	Honolulu	6	8
Matson Inc	Honolulu	5	14
Maui Land & Pineapple Co	Lahaina	(1)	(1)
Hawaiian Holdings	Honolulu	(175)	49
Total all 9 Hawaii Cos		(16)	323	-105%