Two Straight Down Years in Total Earnings of Minnesota Companies ..... First Nine Months 2015 Total Earnings 7% Below 2014 ..... And 2014 Annual Earnings Down 4% From 2013 ..... Points to Need For Employees of Minnesota Businesses and Younger Citizens To Rise Up, Caucus and Vote En Masse in the March 1, 2016 Presidential Primary For Bernie Sanders' Political Revolution

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 for the most recently reported 9 Months Ended September or October 2015 and 2014 for each of  the 37 Minnesota HQed Companies with current stock market capitalizations of more than $100 mil and with December or January Year Ends:

				Nine	Nine
				Months	Months
				2015	2014
				Net	Net	Increase	Increase
Minnesota Largest Companies			Most	Income	Income	(Decrease)	(Decrease)
Market Cap $100 mil or More	City	State	Recent	(Loss)	(Loss)	Amount	%
With December or January Year Ends	HQs	HQs	FYE	$ mils	$ mils	$ mils
Stratasys Ltd	Eden Prairie	MN	Dec 14	(1,141)	(27)	(1,114)
Northern Oil & Gas Inc	Wayzata	MN	Dec 14	(803)	60	(863)
Best Buy	Richfield	MN	Jan 15	330	722	(392)
Ameriprise Financial	Minneapolis	MN	Dec 14	1,307	1,548	(241)
Pentair PLC	Golden Valley	MN	Dec 14	387	477	(90)
Ecolab	St Paul	MN	Dec 14	794	879	(85)
OneBeacon Insurance Group Ltd	Plymouth	MN	Dec 14	15	71	(56)
Innophos Holdings Inc	Cranbury	MN	Dec 14	31	53	(22)
3M	St Paul	MN	Dec 14	3,802	3,819	(17)
Piper Jaffray	Minneapolis	MN	Dec 14	43	60	(17)
Tennant Co	Minneapolis	MN	Dec 14	19	33	(14)
Entellus Medical Inc	Plymouth	MN	Dec 14	(13)	(6)	(7)
TCF Financial Corp	Wayzata	MN	Dec 14	151	156	(5)
Datalink Corp	Chanhassen	MN	Dec 14	2	7	(5)
Buffalo Wild Wings	Minneapolis	MN	Dec 14	70	74	(4)
Sun Biopharma Inc	Waconia	MN	Dec 14	(4)	(3)	(1)
Vascular Solutions Inc	Minneapolis	MN	Dec 14	9	9	-
SPS Commerce Inc	Minneapolis	MN	Dec 14	3	2	1
Winmark Corp	Minneapolis	MN	Dec 14	16	14	2
Capella Education Company	Minneapolis	MN	Dec 14	29	26	3
Tile Shop Holdings Inc	Plymouth	MN	Dec 14	12	9	3
Proto Labs Inc	Maple Plain	MN	Dec 14	35	31	4
ANI Pharmaceuticals	Baudette	MN	Dec 14	12	8	4
Bioamber Inc	Plymouth	MN	Dec 14	(32)	(43)	11
Deluxe Corp	Shoreview	MN	Dec 14	159	142	17
Select Comfort Corp	Minneapolis	MN	Dec 14	72	49	23
Polaris Industries	Medina	MN	Dec 14	345	319	26
Golden Entertainment Inc	Minnetonka	MN	Dec 14	1	(25)	26
Fastenal	Winona	MN	Dec 14	404	376	28
ALLETE Inc	Duluth	MN	Dec 14	123	92	31
St Jude Medical	St Paul	MN	Dec 14	753	717	36
US Bancorp	Minneapolis	MN	Dec 14	4,444	4,407	37
C H Robinson Worldwide	Eden Prairie	MN	Dec 14	383	337	46
Graco Inc	Minneapolis	MN	Dec 14	292	177	115
Mosaic Co	Plymouth	MN	Dec 14	846	669	177
Target Corp	Minneapolis	MN	Jan 15	1,900	1,489	411
UnitedHealth Group	Minneapolis	MN	Dec 14	4,616	4,109	507
Total all 37				19,412	20,837	(1,425)	-7%