Friday, June 5, 2020

Washington DC Companies First Quarter 2020 Total Pretax Earnings Declined Precipitously By 85% From the First Quarter 2019.

From a review of Company SEC filings and the Google Finance website, I found 8 Washington DC Companies with stock market caps 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 the 8 Washington DC Companies.



US US
GAAP GAAP
Pretax Pretax
  Income Income
  (Loss) (Loss) Better
  First First (Worse)
Washington DC Companies Quarter Quarter %
Stock Market Caps Above $1 Bil     2020 2019  Change
mils $ mils $
Danaher                711                720
Fannie Mae                578             3,027
CoStar Group                  78                  98
FTI Consulting                  73                  83
Cogent Communications                  13                  13
Washington REIT                    2                (10)
Easterly Government Properties                    2                  (0)
Carlyle Group Inc              (789)                470
Total all 8 Washington DC Companies                668             4,401 -85%