South Carolina 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 48% Per Year ..... Than They Did During the Trump Administration's First Three Full Years in Office (2017-2019) .....Up a Modest 0.1% Per Year. These Companies Saw Their Total Pretax Earnings Improve By $1.5 Bil During the Obama Administration, Going From Total Pretax Losses of $0.4 Bil in 2008 to Total Pretax Earnings of $1.1 Bil in 2016.

From a review of SEC filings and Google Finance, there were 14 South Carolina Companies with stock market caps of above $100 mil 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 South Carolina for at least 6 of these 12 years. 

The table below shows the Pretax Income (Loss) From Continuing Operations for each of these 14 South Carolina 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
	South		Fincl	Income	Income	Income	Trump	Obama
	Carolina		Sts	(Loss)	(Loss)	(Loss)	Admin's	Admin's
South Carolina Companies	City	State	2019	FYE	FYE	FYE	3 Years	8 Years
Stock Market Caps Above $100 Mil	HQs	HQs	FYE	2019	2016	2008	2017-19	2009-16
				$ mils	$ mils	$ mils
Sonoco Products	Hartsville	SC	Dec 19	381	441	202	-5%	15%
South State	Columbia	SC	Dec 19	230	154	24	16%	68%
Denny's Corp	Spartanburg	SC	Dec 19	149	36	16	105%	16%
Domtar	Fort Mill	SC	Dec 19	88	157	(570)	-15%	NM
Kemet	Greenville SC / Fort Lauderdale, FL	SC	Mar 20	80	10	(288)	233%	NM
ScanSource	Greenville	SC	Jun 19	78	96	90	-6%	1%
Regional Management	Greer	SC	Dec 19	59	39	9	17%	42%
World Acceptance	Greenville	SC	Mar 20	35	106	92	-22%	2%
Southern First Bankshares	Greenville	SC	Dec 19	35	20	2	25%	113%
First Community Corp	Lexington	SC	Dec 19	14	9	(11)	19%	NM
Blackbaud	Charleston	SC	Dec 19	11	57	46	-27%	3%
Delta Apparel	Greenville	SC	Sep 18	8	11	(1)	-8%	NM
Oconee Federal Financial	Seneca	SC	Jun 19	5	7	2	-12%	29%
3D Systems Corp	Rock Hill	SC	Dec 19	(65)	(40)	(6)	NM	NM
Total all 14 South Carolina Cos				1,108	1,103	(393)	0.1%	48%