Connecticut Companies Were One of Just a Small Handful of US State Companies Which Performed Better in Average Annual Pretax Earnings Growth ..... Up 12% Per Year During the Trump Administration (2017-2019) ..... Than They Did During the Obama Administration (2009-2016) ..... Down 1% Per Year

From a review of SEC filings and Google Finance, there were 36 Connecticut Companies with stock market caps of above $1 bil recently 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 (Years from 2008-2019).  I included Companies which were headquartered in Connecticut for a significant portion of these 12 years.   

The table below shows the Pretax Income (Loss) From Continuing Operations for each of these 36 Connecticut Companies for fiscal year end 2019, the last year of the Trump Administration's first three full years in office so far,  for fiscal year end 2016, the year before the start of the Trump Administration as well as also the last year of the Obama Administration, and for fiscal year end 2008, the year before the start of the Obama Administration.

							Average	Average
							Annual	Annual
			Annual	Audited	Audited	Audited	% Change	% Change
			Audited	Pretax	Pretax	Pretax	During	During
			Fincl	Income	Income	Income	Trump	Obama
	Connecticut		Sts	(Loss)	(Loss)	(Loss)	Admin's	Admin's
Connecticut Companies	City	State	2019	FYE	FYE	FYE	3 Years	8 Years
Stock Market Caps Above $1 Bil	HQs	HQs	FYE	2019	2016	2008	2017-19	2009-16
				$ mils	$ mils	$ mils
United Technologies	Farmington	CT	Dec 19	8,243	7,133	6,936	5%	0%
Cigna	Bloomfield	CT	Dec 19	6,570	2,979	382	40%	85%
Booking Holdings	Norwalk	CT	Dec 19	5,958	2,713	276	40%	110%
Hartford Financial Services	Hartford	CT	Dec 19	2,560	447	4,591	158%	-11%
Charter Communications	Stamford CT / Saint Louis, MO	CT	Dec 19	2,431	820	(2,550)	65%	NM
Alexion Pharma	New Haven, CT / Boston, MA	CT	Dec 19	2,179	576	35	93%	193%
United Rentals	Stamford	CT	Dec 19	1,514	909	(813)	22%	NM
Amphenol	Wallingford	CT	Dec 19	1,496	1,141	593	10%	12%
Interactive Brokers Group	Greenwich	CT	Dec 19	1,157	761	1,250	17%	-5%
General Electric	Fairfield, CT / Boston, MA	CT	Dec 19	1,149	7,031	19,770	-28%	-8%
Stanley Black & Decker	New Britain	CT	Dec 19	1,130	1,229	293	-3%	40%
WR Berkley Corp	Greenwich	CT	Dec 19	853	896	326	-2%	22%
Xerox	Norwalk	CT	Dec 19	822	568	(79)	15%	NM
People's United Financial	Bridgeport	CT	Dec 19	652	410	205	20%	13%
XPO Logistics	Greenwich	CT	Dec 19	569	107	5	144%	255%
Starwood Property Trust	Greenwich	CT	Dec 19	550	376	0	15%	NM
SS&C Technologies	Windsor	CT	Dec 19	532	164	26	75%	66%
Hubbell	Shelton	CT	Dec 19	521	430	318	7%	4%
Webster Financial	Waterbury	CT	Dec 19	487	303	(384)	20%	NM
EMCOR Group	Norwalk	CT	Dec 19	451	296	301	17%	0%
Fact Set Research Systems	Norwalk	CT	Aug 19	422	461	189	-3%	18%
Hexcel	Stamford	CT	Dec 19	380	338	111	4%	26%
Gartner	Stamford	CT	Dec 19	276	288	145	-1%	12%
Silgan Holdings	Stamford	CT	Dec 19	252	232	194	3%	2%
Terex	Westport	CT	Dec 19	248	(271)	84	NM	-53%
Barnes Group	Bristol	CT	Dec 19	207	183	119	4%	7%
Aircastle Ltd	Stamford	CT	Dec 19	175	157	123	4%	3%
Crane	Stamford	CT	Dec 19	171	164	184	1%	-1%
RBC Bearings	Oxford	CT	Mar 20	154	105	51	16%	13%
Virtus Investment Partners	Hartford	CT	Dec 19	141	70	(591)	34%	NM
World Wrestling Entertainment	Stamford	CT	Dec 19	95	53	69	26%	-3%
Sturm Ruger	Southport	CT	Dec 19	43	136	14	-23%	109%
Kaman	Bloomfield	CT	Dec 19	41	90	59	-18%	7%
Pitney Bowes	Stamford	CT	Dec 19	27	202	713	-29%	-9%
Compass Diversified Holdings	Westport	CT	Dec 19	(26)	63	10	-47%	66%
Tronox Holdings plc	Stamford	CT	Dec 19	(88)	(264)	(148)	NM	NM
Total all 36 Connecticut Companies				42,342	31,296	32,807	12%	-1%