Washington DC Companies Performed Much Better on the Annual Audited Pretax Earnings Growth Front During Obama/Biden's Eight Years in Office (+18.7% Per Year) Than They Did During Trump/Pence's First Three Years in Office (+2.4% Per Year). Fannie Mae's Pretax Losses Improved By a Massive $62.9 Bil During the Obama/Biden Administration.

From a review of SEC filings and Google Finance, there were 9 Washington DC 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 (Fiscal Years from 2008-2019).    

The table below shows the Pretax Income (Loss) From Continuing Operations for each of these 9 Washington DC Companies for fiscal year end 2019, the last year of the Donald Trump/Mike Pence's first three full years in office so far,  for fiscal year end 2016, the year before the start of the Donald Trump/Mike Pence Administration as well as also the last year of the Barack Obama/Joe Biden Administration, and for fiscal year end 2008, the year before the start of the Barack Obama/Joe Biden Administration.

			Annual	Audited	Audited	Audited
			Audited	Pretax	Pretax	Pretax
			Fincl	Income	Income	Income
			Sts	(Loss)	(Loss)	(Loss)
Washington DC Companies	City		FYE	FYE	FYE	FYE
Stock Market Caps Above $100 Mil	HQs		2019	2019	2016	2008
				$ mils	$ mils	$ mils
Fannie Mae	Washington	DC	Dec 19	17,577	18,333	(44,570)
Danaher	Washington	DC	Dec 19	3,305	2,611	1,749
The Carlyle Group Inc	Washington	DC	Dec 19	1,233	45	(501)
CoStar Group	Washington	DC	Dec 19	391	137	45
FTI Consulting	Washington	DC	Dec 19	288	128	195
Cogent Communications	Washington	DC	Dec 19	53	24	(14)
Washington REIT	Washington	DC	Dec 19	29	119	5
Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corp	Washington	DC	Dec 19	139	119	(173)
Vanda Pharmaceuticals	Washington	DC	Dec 19	29	(18)	(51)
Total all 9 Washington DC Companies				23,044	21,498	(43,315)
….. % Increase 3 Years 2017-2019				7.2%
….. Average Annual % Increase 3 Years 2017-2019				2.4%	Per Year
….. % Increase 8 Years 2009-2016					149.6%
….. Average Annual % Increase 8 Years 2009-2016					18.7%	Per Year