Maryland 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 Did During the Trump Administration's First Three Full Years in Office (2017-2019) ..... Up 9% Per Year

From a review of SEC filings and Google Finance, there were 29 Maryland 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).     

The table below shows the Pretax Income (Loss) From Continuing Operations for each of these 29 Maryland 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
	Maryland		Sts	(Loss)	(Loss)	(Loss)	Admin's	Admin's
Maryland 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
Lockheed Martin	Bethesda	MD	Dec 19	7,241	4,754	4,626	17%	0%
T Rowe Price	Baltimore	MD	Dec 19	2,927	1,961	796	16%	18%
Discovery Inc	Silver Spring	MD	Dec 19	2,294	1,671	757	12%	15%
Marriott Intl	Bethesda	MD	Dec 19	1,599	1,239	694	10%	10%
Host Hotels & Resorts	Bethesda	MD	Dec 19	962	811	380	6%	14%
McCormick & Co	Hunt Valley	MD	Nov 19	819	589	338	13%	9%
AGNC Investment Corp	Bethesda	MD	Dec 19	688	623	35	3%	210%
Legg Mason	Baltimore	MD	Mar 20	411	371	(3,188)	4%	NM
Federal Realty Investment Trust	Rockville	MD	Dec 19	361	259	121	13%	14%
Omega Healthcare Investors	Hunt Valley	MD	Dec 19	344	384	78	-3%	49%
Ciena	Hanover	MD	Oct 19	313	87	42	87%	13%
Choice Hotels Intl	Rockville	MD	Dec 19	270	148	157	27%	-1%
Walker & Dunlop	Bethesda	MD	Dec 19	230	186	14	8%	154%
Under Armour	Baltimore	MD	Dec 19	210	388	70	-15%	57%
Diamondrock Hospitality	Bethesda	MD	Dec 19	206	127	44	21%	24%
Corporate Office Properties Trust	Columbia	MD	Dec 19	198	33	57	167%	-5%
Eagle Bancorp	Bethesda	MD	Dec 19	197	159	12	8%	153%
WR Grace	Columbia	MD	Dec 19	184	166	141	4%	2%
Sandy Spring Bancorp	Olney	MD	Dec 19	153	72	19	38%	35%
Supernus Pharmaceuticals	Rockville	MD	Dec 19	147	50	(33)	65%	NM
RLJ Lodging Trust	Bethesda	MD	Dec 19	126	210	(29)	-13%	NM
Pebblebrook Hotel Trust	Bethesda	MD	Dec 19	121	74	0	21%	NM
Medifast	Owings Mills	MD	Dec 19	92	27	7	80%	36%
Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure Capital	Annapolis Junction	MD	Dec 19	90	15	(0)	167%	NM
Emergent BioSolutions	Gaithersburg	MD	Dec 19	77	99	32	-7%	26%
Colfax	Annapolis Junction	MD	Dec 19	50	207	6	-25%	419%
Sinclair Broadcasting Group	Hunt Valley	MD	Dec 19	9	373	(370)	-33%	NM
Novavax	Gaithersburg	MD	Dec 19	(133)	(280)	(35)	NM	NM
United Therapeutics	Silver Spring	MD	Dec 19	(165)	1,060	(84)	-39%	NM
Total all 29 Maryland Companies				20,021	15,863	4,687	9%	30%