The 389 US Companies With Stock Market Caps of $1 Bil to $2 Bil and With December Year Ends Total Audited Pretax Earnings Declined By 574% in Annual Year Ended December 2020, Going From Total Pretax Earnings of $4.7 Bil in 2019 to Total Pretax Losses of $22.4 Bil in 2020. The 1,747 Largest US Companies With Stock Market Caps Above $1 Bil and With December Year Ends Total Audited Pretax Earnings Declined By 45% in Annual Year Ended December 2020. These Audited Annual 2020 Total Earnings Percentage Declines Are Clearly the Worst For Any Year in the History of the US.

There were 1,747 US Companies with December fiscal year ends, with stock market caps above $1 bil recently and which have reported their annual earnings to the SEC for each of the years ended 2020, 2019 and 2018.  

The first table below summarizes the Gold-Standard US GAAP Audited Pretax Income (Losses) From Continuing Operations for all of these 1,747 Companies, stratified by stock market cap ranges.

From Company SEC filings, the table below shows the Gold-Standard US GAAP Audited Pretax Income (Loss) From Continuing Operations for each of the 389 Companies with stock market caps of between $1 bil to $2 bil for the years ended December 2020, 2019 and 2018.