Tuesday, July 28, 2020

Freeport McMoran's Pretax Losses Were Reduced By $9.8 Bil During the Obama/Biden Administration. The Other Arizona Companies Also Showed Substantial Earnings Improvement on the Audited Annual Pretax Earnings Growth Front During Obama/Biden's Eight Years in Office (Up an Off-the-Charts 237% Per Year), Much Better Than They Did During Trump/Pence's First Three Years in Office (Up 4% Per Year).

From a review of SEC filings and Google Finance, there were 21 Arizona Companies with stock market caps recently of above $1 bil and which reported Pretax Income (Loss) From Continuing Operations in their annual financial statement earnings information filed with the SEC for each of the most recent twelve years (Fiscal Years from 2008-2019).  I only included Companies which were headquartered in Arizona for at least 6 of these 12 years.

The table below shows the Pretax Income (Loss) From Continuing Operations for each of these 21 Arizona Companies for fiscal year end 2019, the last year of the Donald Trump/Mike Pence's first three full years in office so far,  for fiscal year end 2016, the year before the start of the Donald Trump/Mike Pence Administration as well as also the last year of the Barack Obama/Joe Biden Administration, and for fiscal year end 2008, the year before the start of the Barack Obama/Joe Biden Administration.


Annual Audited Audited Audited
Audited Pretax Pretax Pretax
Financial Income Income Income
Sts (Loss) (Loss) (Loss)
Arizona Companies City State FYE FYE FYE FYE
Stock Market Caps Above $1 Bil HQs HQs 2019 2019 2016 2008
 $ mils  $ mils  $ mils
Republic Services Phoenix AZ Dec 19             1,296                966                159
Western Alliance Bancorp Phoenix AZ Dec 19                604                361              (290)
Pinnacle West Capital Phoenix AZ Dec 19                542                698                279
Knight-Swift Transportation Phoenix AZ Dec 19                414                215              (135)
Taylor Morrison Home Scottsdale AZ Dec 19                322                314              (440)
Grand Canyon Education Phoenix AZ Dec 19                318                236                  11
Meritage Homes Scottsdale AZ Dec 19                303                218              (276)
ON Semiconductor Phoenix AZ Dec 19                277                181              (389)
Avnet Phoenix AZ June 19                242                671                709
Insight Enterprises Tempe AZ Dec 19                212                139              (326)
Sprouts Farmers Market Phoenix AZ Dec 19                196                199                    6
Amkor Technology Tempe AZ Dec 19                160                215              (426)
Microchip Technology Chandler AZ Mar 20                150                  90                237
Mobile Mini Phoenix AZ Dec 19                112                  69                  57
Cavco Industries Phoenix AZ Mar 20                  93                  55                    0
Magellan Health Phoenix AZ Dec 19                  81                146                140
Healthcare Trust of America Scottsdale AZ Dec 19                  31                  47                (29)
Axon Enterprises Scottsdale AZ Dec 19                    2                  31                    7
First Solar Tempe AZ Dec 19              (120)              (300)                464
VEREIT Phoenix AZ Dec 19              (303)              (205)                    0
Total all 20 Arizona Cos             4,932             4,346              (242)
….. % Increase 3 Years 2017-2019 13%
….. Average Annual % Increase 2017-2019 4%  Per Year 
….. % Increase 8 Years 2009-2016 1898%
….. Average Annual % Increase 8 Years 2009-2016 237%  Per Year 
Freeport McMoran Phoenix AZ Dec 19                306           (3,472)         (13,309)