South Dakota Largest Companies 2016 Total Audited Earnings Were Up a Very Robust 37% Over 2015 Under Obama, Yellen and Thune

From a review of the Google Finance Website and of company financial statements in the US SEC Website, I found 1 Company headquartered in the US State of South Dakota with Stock Market Capitalizations either very late in 2016 or very early in 2017 of more than $1 Bil and 3 more with Stock Market Caps Between $100 Mil and $1 Bil.

Below here are the reported Audited US GAAP Earnings (Losses) From Continuing Operations of each of these 4 South Dakota Companies for all of the fiscal years from 2007 through 2016 where the earnings numbers were reported and also where they were prepared in a fairly consistent manner with those in the most recent years:

				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
South Dakota Companies	City	State	2016	Income	Income	Income	Income	Income	Income	Income	Income	Income	Income
Market Caps Above $100 Mil	HQs	HQs	FYE	(Loss)	(Loss)	(Loss)	(Loss)	(Loss)	(Loss)	(Loss)	(Loss)	(Loss)	(Loss)
				$ mils	$ mils	$ mils	$ mils	$ mils	$ mils	$ mils	$ mils	$ mils	$ mils
Great Western Bancorp	Sioux Falls	SD	Sep16	121	109	105	96	73
Meta Financial Group Inc	Sioux Falls	SD	Sep16	33	18	16	13	17	5	12	(1)	(2)	1
Raven Industries Inc	Sioux Falls	SD	Jan17	20	5	32	43	53	50	41	29	31	28
Daktronics Inc	Brookings	SD	Apr17	10	2	21	22	23	8	14	(7)	26	26
Total all 4				184	134	174	174	166	63	67	21	55	55
2016 Total Earnings Above 2015				37%