Hawaii Companies Performed Substantially Better on the Audited Annual Pretax Earnings Growth Front During the Obama Administration's Eight Years in Office (2009-2016) ..... Up a Blistering 30% Per Year ..... Than They Performed During the Trump Administration's First Three Full Years in Office (2017-2019) ..... Down 6% Per Year

Since Barack Obama is making a Democratic National Convention presentation tonight, I decided to research how Hawaii Companies performed on the Pretax Earnings front during the Obama Presidency. 

From a review of SEC filings and Google Finance, there were 8 Hawaii Companies with stock market caps of above $200 mil in June 2020 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).     

The table below shows the Pretax Income (Loss) From Continuing Operations for each of these 8 Hawaii 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
			Sts	(Loss)	(Loss)	(Loss)	Admin's	Admin's
Hawaii Largest Companies		State	2019	FYE	FYE	FYE	3 Years	8 Years
Market Caps Above $200 Mil	City HQs	HQs	FYE	2019	2016	2008	2017-19	2009-16
				$ mils	$ mils	$ mils
Hawaiian Holdings	Honolulu	HI	Dec 19	305	361	53	-5%	73%
Bank of Hawaii	Honolulu	HI	Dec 19	286	260	270	3%	0%
Hawaiian Electric Industries	Honolulu	HI	Dec 19	271	374	141	-9%	21%
Matson Inc	Honolulu	HI	Dec 19	108	131	136	-6%	0%
Central Pacific Financial	Honolulu	HI	Dec 19	78	73	(188)	2%	NM
Territorial Bancorp	Honolulu	HI	Dec 19	28	27	11	1%	18%
Maui Land & Pineapple Co	Lahaina	HI	Dec 19	(2)	22	(65)	-36%	NM
Alexander & Baldwin	Honolulu	HI	Dec 19	(39)	35	20	-70%	9%
Total all 8 Hawaii Cos				1,035	1,283	378	-6%	30%