Financial Giant Bank of America Generated 2015 Annual Earnings of $16 Bil, Up a Massive 229% Over 2014, Making Hillary Clinton Very Happy, But Illustrating Bernie Sanders' Position That the Big Banks Causing the 2008-09 US Financial Meltdown and Bailed Out By the US Government Are Now Doing Just Great Financially, Unlike the Many People Still Suffering from This US Financial Meltdown ..... All 35 North Carolina Companies With Market Caps Above $1 Bil Other Than Bank of America Generated Annual 2015 Total Earnings of $15.1 Bil, Up 14% Over That in 2014 ..... On the Other Hand, All 44 Smaller North Carolina Companies With Market Caps of $40 Mil to $1 Bil Generated Total Annual 2015 Losses of $19 Mil, An Earnings Deteriorarion of 109% From 2014

From both the superb Google Finance website and US Company SEC filings, below here are the reported US GAAP Earnings (Losses) From Continuing Operations, Predominately Audited, for the most recent Annual 2015 and 2014 for each of  the 80 North Carolina HQed Companies with current stock market capitalizations of more than $40 mil and which also have reported their 2015 financial statements with the SEC:

				Annual	Annual
				2015	2014
				Net	Net	Increase	Increase
			Most	Income	Income	(Decrease)	(Decrease)
North Carolina Largest Companies	City	State	Recent	(Loss)	(Loss)	Amount	%
Market Cap $40 mil or More	HQs	HQs	FYE	$ mils	$ mils	$ mils
Bank of America	Charlotte	NC	Dec 15	15,888	4,833	11,055	229%
Market Cap Above $1 Bil Other Than Bank of America
Reynolds American	Winston Salem	NC	Dec 15	3,253	1,445	1,808
Lowe's Companies	Mooresville	NC	Jan 16	2,546	2,698	(152)
BB&T Corp	Winston Salem	NC	Dec 15	2,123	2,206	(83)
VFC Corp	Greensboro	NC	Dec 15	1,232	1,048	184
Ingersoll-Rand plc	Davidson	NC	Dec 15	707	916	(209)
Nucor Corp	Charlotte	NC	Dec 15	496	816	(320)
Laboratory Corp of America	Burlington	NC	Dec 15	438	513	(75)
Hanesbrands	Winston Salem	NC	Dec 15	429	405	24
Quintiles Transnational Holdings	Durham	NC	Dec 15	388	357	31
Sealed Air Corp	Charlotte	NC	Dec 15	335	258	77
Carlisle Companies	Charlotte	NC	Dec 15	320	252	68
Old Dominion Freight Line	Thomasville	NC	Dec 15	305	268	37
Martin Marietta Materials	Raleigh	NC	Dec 15	289	154	135
Extended Stay America Inc	Charlotte	NC	Dec 15	283	151	132
Premier Inc	Charlotte	NC	Jun 15	235	333	(98)
Tanger Factory Outlet Centers	Greensboro	NC	Dec 15	222	78	144
First Citizens BancShares Inc	Raleigh	NC	Dec 15	210	139	71
Qorvo	Greensboro	NC	Mar 15	196	13	183
Curtiss-Wright	Charlotte	NC	Dec 15	192	170	22
Red Hat	Raleigh	NC	Feb 15	180	178	2
Belk Inc	Charlotte	NC	Jan 15	146	159	(13)
INC Research Holdings Inc	Raleigh	NC	Dec 15	117	(23)	140
Highwoods Properties Inc	Raleigh	NC	Dec 15	86	97	(11)
PRA Health Sciences Inc	Raleigh	NC	Dec 15	82	(36)	118
Coca-Cola Bottling Co Consolidated	Charlotte	NC	Dec 15	65	36	29
The Fresh Market Inc	Greensboro	NC	Jan 15	63	51	12
Cato Corp	Charlotte	NC	Jan 15	61	54	7
Hatteras Financial Corp	Winston Salem	NC	Dec 15	52	56	(4)
Snyder's-Lance Inc	Charlotte	NC	Dec 15	51	59	(8)
Lendingtree Inc	Charlotte	NC	Dec 15	51	(0)	51
Yadkin Financial Corp	Raleigh	NC	Dec 15	45	22	23
Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises Inc	Charlotte	NC	Dec 15	17	(12)	29
EnPro Industries Inc	Charlotte	NC	Dec 15	(21)	22	(43)
Cree Inc	Durham	NC	Jun 15	(64)	124	(188)
Commscope Holding Co	Hickory	NC	Dec 15	(71)	237	(308)
Total all 35 except Bank of America with market caps above $1 Bil				15,059	13,244	1,815	14%
Market Cap $40 Mil to $1 Bil
FairPoint Communications Inc	Charlotte	NC	Dec 15	90	(136)	226
Sonic Automotive Inc	Charlotte	NC	Dec 15	88	99	(11)
SPX Flow Inc	Charlotte	NC	Dec 15	87	136	(49)
Ingles Markets Inc	Asheville	NC	Sep 15	59	51	8
Triangle Capital Corp	Raleigh	NC	Dec 15	48	28	20
BNC Bancorp	High Point	NC	Dec 15	44	29	15
Unifi Inc	Greensboro	NC	Jun 15	40	28	12
Krispy Kreme Doughnuts	Winston Salem	NC	Jan 15	30	34	(4)
First Bancorp	Troy	NC	Dec 15	27	25	2
Bojangles Inc	Charlotte	NC	Dec 15	27	26	1
Entegra Financial Corp	Franklin	NC	Dec 15	24	6	18
Insteel Industries Inc	Mount Airy	NC	Sep 15	22	17	5
Live Oak Bancshares Inc	Wilmington	NC	Dec 15	21	10	11
Four Oaks Fincorp	Four Oaks	NC	Dec 15	20	(4)	24
Park Sterling Corp	Charlotte	NC	Dec 15	17	13	4
NewBridge Bancorp	Greensboro	NC	Dec 15	16	14	2
Culp Inc	High Point	NC	Apr 15	15	17	(2)
Capitala Finance Corp	Charlotte	NC	Dec 15	14	(3)	17
Investors Title Company	Chapel Hill	NC	Dec 15	13	10	3
Peoples Bancorp of NC	Newton	NC	Dec 15	10	9	1
Hometrust Bancshares Inc	Asheville	NC	Jun 15	8	10	(2)
CommunityOne Bancorp	Charlotte	NC	Dec 15	7	150	(143)
Select Bancorp	Dunn	NC	Dec 15	7	2	4
Carolina Bank Holding	Greensboro	NC	Dec 15	6	3	3
First South Bancorp	Washington	NC	Dec 15	5	4	1
Kewaunee Scientific	Statesville	NC	Apr 15	4	4	-
ASB Bancorp	Asheville	NC	Dec 15	4	3	1
SciQuest Inc	Morrisville	NC	Dec 15	2	(0)	2
Air T	Maiden	NC	Mar 15	2	1	1
Primo Water Corp	Winston Salem	NC	Dec 15	2	(13)	15
Tenax Therapeutics	Morrisville	NC	Apr 15	(14)	(20)	6
Alliance One International Inc	Morrisville	NC	Mar 15	(16)	(87)	71
ChannelAdvisor Corp	Morrisville	NC	Dec 15	(21)	(35)	14
MaxPoint Interactive Inc	Morrisville	NC	Dec 15	(22)	(13)	(9)
SCYNEXIS Inc	Durham	NC	Dec 15	(28)	(6)	(22)
Speedway Motorsports Inc	Concord	NC	Dec 15	(34)	23	(57)
BioDelivery Sciences Intl Inc	Raleigh	NC	Dec 15	(38)	(54)	16
vTv Therapeutics Inc	High Point	NC	Dec 15	(41)	(36)	(5)
BioCryst Pharmaceuticals Inc	Durham	NC	Dec 15	(43)	(45)	2
Transenterix Inc	Morrisville	NC	Dec 15	(47)	(38)	(9)
Aerie Pharmaceuticals Inc	Research Triangle	NC	Dec 15	(74)	(48)	(26)
Cempra Inc	Chapel Hill	NC	Dec 15	(91)	(62)	(29)
Chimerix Inc	Durham	NC	Dec 15	(117)	(59)	(58)
SPX Corp	Charlotte	NC	Dec 15	(191)	116	(307)
Total all 44 with market cap $40 Mil to $1 Bil				(19)	209	(228)	-109%