Tennessee Companies Performed Substantially Better on the Audited Annual Pretax Earnings Growth Front During the Obama Administration's Eight Years in Office (2009-2016) ..... Up an Average of an Off-the-Charts 67% Per Year ..... Than They Performed During the Trump Administration's First Three Full Years in Office (2017-2019) ... Down an Average 1% Per Year

From a review of SEC filings and Google Finance, there were 22 Tennessee Companies with stock market caps of above $1 bil in mid-August 2020 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 22 Tennessee 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
	Tennessee		Fincl	Income	Income	Income	Trump	Obama
Tennessee Companies	City	State	Sts	(Loss)	(Loss)	(Loss)	Admin's	Admin's
Stock Market Caps Above $1 Bil	HQs	HQs	2019	FYE	FYE	FYE	3 Years	8 Years
			FYE	2019	2016	2008	2017-19	2009-16
				$ mils	$ mils	$ mils
HCA Healthcare	Nashville	TN	Dec 19	5,244	4,810	1,170	3%	39%
Dollar General	Goodlettsville	TN	Jan 20	2,202	1,966	194	4%	114%
Autozone	Memphis	TN	Aug 19	2,031	1,913	1,007	2%	11%
FedEx	Memphis	TN	May 20	1,669	4,579	677	-21%	72%
International Paper	Memphis	TN	Dec 19	1,604	795	(1,153)	34%	NM
Unum Group	Chattanooga	TN	Dec 19	1,382	1,348	824	1%	8%
Eastman Chemical	Kingsport	TN	Dec 19	902	1,049	461	-5%	16%
Tractor Supply	Brentwood	TN	Dec 19	723	688	176	2%	36%
First Horizon National	Memphis	TN	Dec 19	586	345	(329)	23%	NM
Pinnacle Financial Partners	Nashville	TN	Dec 19	498	191	43	54%	43%
Mid America Apartment Comm	Germantown	TN	Dec 19	369	226	32	21%	76%
Cracker Barrel	Lebanon	TN	July 19	266	266	94	0%	23%
CoreCivic	Nashville	TN	Dec 19	197	228	234	-5%	0%
Mueller Industries	Collierville	TN	Dec 19	166	146	121	5%	3%
National Health Investors	Murfreesboro	TN	Dec 19	160	153	51	2%	25%
Ryman Hospitality Properties	Nashville	TN	Dec 19	147	163	5	-3%	395%
Acadia Healthcare	Franklin	TN	Dec 19	136	33	(2)	104%	NM
Forward Air Corp	Greeneville	TN	Dec 19	116	58	69	33%	-2%
Healthcare Realty Trust	Nashville	TN	Dec 19	39	86	15	-18%	59%
Astec Industries	Chattanooga	TN	Dec 19	25	87	98	-24%	-1%
Louisiana-Pacific	Nashville	TN	Dec 19	(23)	165	(752)	-38%	NM
Wright Medical Group NV	Memphis	TN	Dec 19	(79)	(178)	(39)	NM	NM
Total all 22 Tennessee Cos				18,360	19,117	2,996	-1%	67%