Sunday, February 28, 2016

2015 Arkansas Companies With December Year Ends Total Audited Losses Were $1.177 Bil, a $3.139 Bil Earnings Deterioration From 2014 ..... And What Are the Republican Establishment (Rubio and Cruz) and the Democratic Establishment (Hillary Clinton) Proposing to Improve This Horrible Economic Situation? ..... Absolutely Nothing

From both the superb Google Finance website and US Company SEC filings, below here are the reported US GAAP Real Earnings (Losses) From Continuing Operations, Predominately Audited, for the most recently reported Year Ended December 2015 and 2014 for each of the 13 Arkansas HQed Companies with current stock market capitalizations of more than $50 mil and with December Year Ends (Wal-Mart and Dillards are excluded since they both have January Year Ends:





 Year   Year 





2015 2014





Net Net Increase Increase
Arkansas Largest Companies

Most Income Income (Decrease) (Decrease)
Market Cap $50 mil or More City State Recent (Loss) (Loss) Amount %
With December Year Ends HQs HQs FYE  $ mils  $ mils  $ mils








Murphy Oil Corp El Dorado AR Dec 15          (2,256)            1,025          (3,281)
Murphy USA Inc El Dorado AR Dec 15               138               223               (85)
Deltic Timber Corp El Dorado AR Dec 15                   3                 20               (17)
Bear State Financial Inc Little Rock AR Dec 15                 11                 24               (13)
ArcBest Corp Fort Smith AR Dec 15                 45                 46                 (1)
Inuvo Conway AR Dec 15                   2                   2                 -  
USA Truck Van Buren AR Dec 15                 11                   6                   5
P.A.M. Transportation Services Inc Tontitown AR Dec 15                 21                 13                   8
Home Bancshares Inc Conway AR Dec 15               138               113                 25
Simmons First National Corp Pine Bluff AR Dec 15                 74                 36                 38
J B Hunt Transport Services Lowell AR Dec 15               427               375                 52
Bank of the Ozarks Little Rock AR Dec 15               182               119                 63
Windstream Holdings Inc Little Rock AR Dec 15                 27               (40)                 67








Total all 13


         (1,177)            1,962          (3,139) -160%