South Dakota Companies Performed Substantially Better on the Audited Annual Pretax Earnings Growth Front During the Obama Administration's Eight Years in Office (2009-2016) ..... Up an Average of a Blistering 39% Per Year ..... Than They Performed During the Trump Administration's First Three Full Years in Office (2017-2019) ... Up an Average 8% Per Year

From a review of SEC filings and Google Finance, there were 6 South Dakota Companies with stock market caps of above $100 mil in mid-June 2020 which reported Pretax Income (Loss) From Continuing Operations in their annual financial statement earnings information filed with the SEC for each of the most recent twelve years (Years from 2008-2019).     

The table below shows the Pretax Income (Loss) From Continuing Operations for each of these 6 South Dakota Companies for fiscal year end 2019, the last year of the Trump Administration's first three full years in office so far,  for fiscal year end 2016, the year before the start of the Trump Administration as well as also the last year of the Obama Administration, and for fiscal year end 2008, the year before the start of the Obama Administration.

							Average	Average
							Annual	Annual
			Annual	Audited	Audited	Audited	% Change	% Change
			Audited	Pretax	Pretax	Pretax	During	During
			Fincl	Income	Income	Income	Trump	Obama
			Sts	(Loss)	(Loss)	(Loss)	Admin's	Admin's
South Dakota Largest Companies		State	2019	FYE	FYE	FYE	3 Years	8 Years
Market Caps Above $100 Mil	City HQs	HQs	FYE	2019	2016	2008	2017-19	2009-16
				$ mils	$ mils	$ mils
Black Hills	Rapid City	SD	Dec 19	243	206	(86)	6%	NM
Northwestern Corp	Sioux Falls	SD	Dec 19	182	157	108	5%	6%
Meta Financial Group	Sioux Falls	SD	Sep 19	98	39	(3)	50%	NM
Raven Industries	Sioux Falls	SD	Jan 20	40	28	47	14%	-5%
South Dakota Soybean Processors LLC	Volga	SD	Dec 19	11	13	3	-5%	42%
Daktronics	Brookings	SD	Apr 20	(0)	16	42	-33%	-8%
Total all 6 South Dakota Companies				574	459	111	8%	39%