The 4 Publicly-Held South Dakota Non-Financial Companies Generated Total Audited Earnings of Only $4.2 Mil in 2015, Down 98% From Total Comparable Earnings of $188.4 Mil in 2014 ..... On the Other Hand, the 3 Publicly-Held South Dakota Banks Are Doing Just Fine Generating Total Audited Earnings of $130.8 Mil in 2015, Up 3% Over 2014, Up 13% Over 2013 and Up 37% Over 2012 ..... When the Banks Have All of the 2015 Total Company Earnings in a State, the Economy of That State Has To Be Suffering

From a review of US Company SEC filings, below here are the reported US GAAP Audited Earnings (Losses) From Continuing Operations for the most recent Annual Fiscal Year End (FYE) 2015 and also for 2012 through 2014 for each of the 3 Publicly-Held Financial and the 4 Publicly-Held Non-Financial South Dakota HQed Companies:

				Annual	Annual	Annual	Annual
				2015	2014	2013	2012
				Net	Net	Net	Net
			Most	Income	Income	Income	Income
	City	State	Recent	(Loss)	(Loss)	(Loss)	(Loss)
All South Dakota Publicly-Held Companies	HQs	HQs	FYE	$ mils	$ mils	$ mils	$ mils
Financials
Great Western Bancorp	Sioux Falls	SD	Sep 15	109.1	105.0	96.2	73.0
Meta Financial Group Inc	Sioux Falls	SD	Sep 15	18.1	15.7	13.4	17.1
HF Financial Corp	Sioux Falls	SD	Jun 15	3.6	6.6	5.9	5.2
Total all 3 Banks				130.8	127.3	115.5	95.3
2015 Total Bank Earnings % Above:
………. 2014				3%
………. 2013				13%
………. 2012				37%
Non-Financials
Daktronics Inc	Brookings	SD	Apr 15	20.9	22.2	22.8	8.5
Raven Industries Inc	Sioux Falls	SD	Jan 16	8.6	31.8	42.9	52.6
North American University Holdings	Rapid City	SD	May 15	6.8	3.5	5.5	5.1
Black Hills Corp (Diversified Energy Co)	Rapid City	SD	Dec 15	(32.1)	130.9	118.3	109.4
Total all 4 Non-Financials				4.2	188.4	189.5	175.6
2015 Total Non-Bank Earnings % Below:
………. 2014				-98%
………. 2013				-98%
………. 2012				-98%
Total all 7				135.0	315.7	305.0	270.9