Arkansas Largest Companies 2016 Total Audited Earnings Were Up 12% Over 2015 Despite 5% Earnings Decline at Giant Wal-Mart ...................................................................................... All Arkansas Largest Companies Other Than Wal-Mart Saw Their Total 2016 Earnings Increase By 1,252% From 2015, Driven Mainly By Massive Profit Improvement at Oil & Gas Company Murphy Oil ..................................................................................... Tyson Foods Experienced Earnings Increases of 44% in Both of the Two Most Recent Years ....................................................................................... Wal-Mart Earnings Declined 10% in 2015 From 2014 and By Another 5% in 2016 From 2015, Driven By Wage Increases From a Wise Continued Investment in Associate Wage Structure

From a review of the Google Finance Website and of company financial statements in the US SEC Website, I found the 11 Companies headquartered in the US State of Arkansas with Stock Market Capitalizations either very late in 2016 or very early in 2017 of more than $1 Bil and which also have filed their fiscal year 2016 annual financial statements with the SEC.   

Below here are the reported Audited US GAAP Earnings (Losses) From Continuing Operations of each of these 11 Arkansas Companies for all of the fiscal years from 2007 through 2016:

				2016	2015	2014	2013	2012	2011	2010	2009	2008	2007
			Most	Audited	Audited	Audited	Audited	Audited	Audited	Audited	Audited	Audited	Audited
			Recent	Net	Net	Net	Net	Net	Net	Net	Net	Net	Net
Arkansas Companies	City	State	2016	Income	Income	Income	Income	Income	Income	Income	Income	Income	Income
Market Caps Above $1 Bil	HQs	HQs	FYE	(Loss)	(Loss)	(Loss)	(Loss)	(Loss)	(Loss)	(Loss)	(Loss)	(Loss)	(Loss)
				$ mils	$ mils	$ mils	$ mils	$ mils	$ mils	$ mils	$ mils	$ mils	$ mils
Wal-Mart	Bentonville	AR	Jan17	14,293	15,080	16,814	16,551	17,704	16,454	15,959	14,962	13,734	13,269
…2016 Earnings % Decline From 2015				-5%
…2015 Earnings % Decline From 2014				-10%
All Except Wal-Mart
Tyson Foods	Springdale	AR	Sep16	1,772	1,224	856	848	614	733	765	(550)	86	268
J B Hunt Transport Services	Lowell	AR	Dec16	432	427	375	342	310	257	200	136	201	213
Bank of the Ozarks	Little Rock	AR	Dec16	270	182	119	91	77	101	64	43	35	32
Murphy USA	El Dorado	AR	Dec16	221	138	223	154	138	188	126	36	211
Home Bancshares Inc	Conway	AR	Dec16	177	138	113	67	63	55	18	27	10	20
Dillard's Inc	Little Rock	AR	Jan17	169	269	332	324	336	464	180	69	(241)	54
Simmons First National	Pine Bluff	AR	Dec16	97	74	36	23	28	25	37	25	27	27
Acxiom Corp	Little Rock	AR	Mar17	4	(9)	(27)	(17)	31	18
Uniti Group	Little Rock	AR	Dec16	(2)	25
Murphy Oil Corp	El Dorado	AR	Dec16	(274)	(2,256)	1,025	888	806	539	618	656	1,691	767
Total all Except Wal-Mart				2,866	212	3,052	2,720	2,403	2,380	2,008	442	2,020	1,381
…2016 Earnings % Above 2015				1252%
Total all 11 Arkansas Companies				17,159	15,292	19,866	19,271	20,107	18,834	17,967	15,404	15,754	14,650
…2016 Earnings % Above 2015				12%