Louisiana Companies Total Annual 2015 Real US GAAP Earnings Were Down 20% From 2014 ..... What Are the Republican Establishment (Rubio and Cruz) and the Democratic Establishment (Hillary Clinton) Proposing to Improve This Declining Economic Situation? ..... Nothing ..... On the Other Hand, Bernie Sanders Does Have a Wisely-Designed Plan to Deal With This Economic Weakness

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 recent Annual 2015 and 2014 for each of  the 18 Louisiana HQed Companies with current stock market capitalizations of more than $50 mil and which also have reported their 2015 financial statements with the SEC:

				Annual	Annual
				2015	2014
				Net	Net	Increase	Increase
				Income	Income	(Decrease)	(Decrease)
Louisiana Largest Companies	City	State	2015	(Loss)	(Loss)	Amount	%
Market Cap $50 mil or More	HQs	HQs	FYE	$ mils	$ mils	$ mils
Stone Energy Corp	Lafayette	LA	Dec 15	(1,091)	(190)	(901)
Tidewater Inc	New Orleans	LA	Mar 15	(65)	140	(205)
Hornbeck Offshore Services Inc	Covington	LA	Dec 15	67	88	(21)
H&E Equipment Services Inc	Baton Rouge	LA	Dec 15	44	55	(11)
MidSouth Bancorp	Lafayette	LA	Dec 15	10	18	(8)
PHI Inc	Lafayette	LA	Dec 15	27	33	(6)
Investar Holding Corp	Baton Rouge	LA	Dec 15	7	5	2
Home Bancorp Inc	Lafayette	LA	Dec 15	13	10	3
First Guaranty Bancshares	Hammond	LA	Dec 15	15	11	4
Lamar Advertising	Baton Rouge	LA	Dec 15	263	254	9
First NBC Bank Holding Company	New Orleans	LA	Dec 15	67	56	11
LHC Group	Lafayette	LA	Dec 14	42	29	13
Amerisafe Inc	Deridder	LA	Dec 15	70	54	16
Pool Corp	Covington	LA	Dec 15	128	111	17
Iberiabank Corp	Lafayette	LA	Dec 15	143	105	38
Centurylink	Monroe	LA	Dec 15	878	772	106
Albemarle Corp	Baton Rouge	LA	Dec 15	360	230	130
Globalstar Inc	Covington	LA	Dec 15	72	(463)	535
Total all 18				1,050	1,318	(268)	-20%