State Corporations in own country inferior to C3's

I took over a country a few days back. Corporate profits went from 1.5B each to a 50-100M loss each month.

https://sim01.simcountry.com/cgi-bin/cgi2nova?SN_ADDRESS=wwwCountry&SN_METHOD=w3graph&miTable=corphist&miKey=401731&miColumn=vCorpMonthProfit

Some corporations occasionally turn a profit. I stopped upgrades to see if that helps, but it hasn't. Am I missing something? When I took over, was the corp different the month before? Like, as a C3 corp, it had different stats then it did once I took over the country?

Many of corps have gone from a 990B market value down to a 500-600B market value. Three of my corps had a PE of under 33 my first month, so I could have put them up for an IPO, but the PE dramatically changed.

Pat,

Corporations are not going anywhere for no reason.
There are many parameters that determine the value and the profit.

Check the quality of products purchased
the salaries
check the welfare index and make sure it is above 100 and much better, above 110.
check the price on the market and the product shortage or oversupply.

If you make sure all these are OK and your hiring is at 100% with full production, the corporation will turn a stable profit.
(Oversupply of the product on the market can change it all).

Will it turn a stable profit at -10% of quality price?

Pat, if you examine 1 or 2 C3 corps you will see that they have an advantage over player corps (state corps this is). They produce a higher Q for lower Q supplies, this is why once you take them over they lose value and make less as the corps perform normally.

But generally you can get them back in good shape by following Andys advice.

Oh, I thought I was doing something wrong to see my new country corps go from big profits to modest losses when I took office. I upped salaries from 100 to 300, did a few quality/effectivity upgrades, and that's really it.

My home indexes are going up quite a bit, but its a slow process. My starting education index was 40.

Yep, you have to build a country, they dont come ready made unless you pay a lot of money for a good one. But building them is most of the fun and how you learn the skills.

Good luck