Utah 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 81% Per Year ..... Than They Performed During the Trump Administration's First Three Full Years in Office (2017-2019) ... Up an Average 22% Per Year

From a review of SEC filings and Google Finance, there were 9 Utah 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 9 Utah 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
	Utah		Sts	(Loss)	(Loss)	(Loss)	Admin's	Admin's
Utah 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
Zions Bancorp	Salt Lake City	UT	Dec 19	1,053	705	(315)	16%	NM
Extra Space Storage	Salt Lake City	UT	Dec 19	451	331	37	12%	99%
SkyWest	St George	UT	Dec 19	446	(249)	176	NM	-30%
Nu Skin Enterprises	Provo	UT	Dec 19	255	213	101	7%	14%
Usana Health Sciences	Salt Lake City	UT	Dec 19	150	139	69	3%	13%
Freedom Holding Corp	Salt Lake City	UT	Mar 20	28	6	16	122%	-8%
Merit Medical System	South Jordan	UT	Dec 19	2	25	32	-31%	-3%
Myriad Genetics	Salt Lake City	UT	Jun 19	0	156	75	-33%	14%
Overstock.com	Midvale	UT	Dec 19	(135)	21	(11)	-248%	NM
Total all 9 Utah Cos				2,250	1,347	180	22%	81%