Nebraska Largest Companies Five-Year 2012 to 2016 Total Audited Earnings Were $136 Bil, Up $65 Bil, Or Up 93%, From Their Five-Year 2007 to 2011 Total Earnings of $71 Bil Under Obama, Bernanke and Yellen ....................................................................................... 2016 Total Nebraska Companies Earnings Were Down 2% From 2015, But Up 163% From 2009 and Up 233% From 2008 ....................................................................................... Berkshire Hathaway's Audited US GAAP Comprehensive Income Was $27.4 Bil in 2016, Up a Huge 79%, or Up $12.1 Bil, From That in 2015 of $15.3 Bil, Due Mainly to Substantially Higher Net Change in Unrealized Appreciation of Investments in 2016

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 Nebraska 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.  Traditional Highly Regulated Utilities Companies were excluded.

Below here are the reported Audited US GAAP Earnings (Losses) From Continuing Operations of each of these 11 Nebraska 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
Nebraska 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
Berkshire Hathaway	Omaha	NE	Dec16	24,427	24,414	20,170	19,845	15,312	10,746	13,494	8,441	5,596	13,567
Union Pacific	Omaha	NE	Dec16	4,233	4,772	5,180	4,388	3,943	3,292	2,780	1,890	2,335	1,855
TD Ameritrade	Omaha	NE	Sep16	842	813	787	675	586	638	592	644	804	646
Nelnet Inc	Lincoln	NE	Dec16	258	268	309	304	178	204	189	139	27	35
West Corp	Omaha	NE	Dec16	193	191	135	123	105	114	77	91	17	21
Valmont Industries	Valley	NE	Dec16	178	45	189	280	239	237	100	154	136	97
Cabelas Inc	Sidney	NE	Dec16	147	189	202	224	174	143	112	50	76	88
Buckle Inc	Kearney	NE	Jan17	98	147	163	163	164	151	135	127	104	75
Werner Enterprises Inc	Omaha	NE	Dec16	79	124	99	87	103	103	80	57	68	75
Green Plains Inc	Omaha	NE	Dec16	30	15	160	43	12	38	48	20	(8)	(4)
National Research Corp	Lincoln	NE	Dec16	21	18	18	15	15	12	8	8	7	7
Total all 11				30,506	30,996	27,412	26,147	20,831	15,678	17,615	11,621	9,162	16,462
2016 Total Earnings % Below 2015				-2%
2016 Total Earnings % Above:
….. 2014				11%
….. 2012				46%
….. 2010				73%
….. 2009				163%
….. 2008				233%
Five Year Total Earnings:
… 2012-16				135,892
… 2007-11				70,538
…… Five Year Earnings Improvement				65,354
…… Five Year Earnings Improvement %				93%