Nebraska Companies March 2018 Quarter Earnings ..... Berkshire Hathaway (BH) Got Isolated Out Because of a New FASB, Which Requires Equity Investments To Be Market to Market Value at Each Quarter End With the Market Value Change Reflected in Regular Net Income and BH Recorded a Total March 2018 Quarter After-Tax Earnings Charge of $6.2 Bil For the Decline in the Market Values of BH's Investments in its Equity Securities ........................................................................................ The 6 Nebraska Companies Excluding BH Generated March or April 2018 Quarter Total Pretax Income of $2.3 Bil, Up 6% From Their Prior Years Quarter ........................................................................................

From a review of SEC filings, the below chart shows the US GAAP Pretax Income (Loss) From Continuing Operations, the US GAAP Net Income (Loss) From Continuing Operations and the related US GAAP Income Tax Expense for the March or April 2018 and 2017 Quarters for all US  Companies including both Partnerships and REITs which are Headquartered in the US State of Nebraska with March 2018 or April 2018 Quarter Ends, with stock market caps above $1 Bil recently and which have released their March 2018 or April 2018 Quarter Earnings by June 12, 2018.  

I will update this quarterly earnings chart later for Companies with April 2018 and May 2018 Quarter End Earnings which haven't reported their April or May 2018 Quarter Earnings yet.

									US	US		US	US
	US	US	US		US	US	US		GAAP	GAAP		GAAP	GAAP
	GAAP	GAAP	GAAP		GAAP	GAAP	GAAP		Effective	Effective		Pretax	Net
	Pretax	Income	Net		Pretax	Income	Net		Income	Income		Income	Income
	Income	Tax	Income		Income	Tax	Income		Tax	Tax		% Change	% Change
Nebraska Companies	(Loss)	Expense	(Loss)		(Loss)	Expense	(Loss)		Rate	Rate		March or	March or
Market Caps At Least $1 Bil	March or	March or	March or		March or	March or	March or		March or	March or		April Qtr	April Qtr
Releasing March or April 2018	April Qtr	April Qtr	April Qtr		April Qtr	April Qtr	April Qtr		April Qtr	April Qtr		2018	2018
Qtr Earnings By June 12, 2018	2018	2018	2018		2017	2017	2017		2018	2017		vs 2017	vs 2017
	mils $	mils $	mils $		mils $	mils $	mils $
Berkshire Hathaway	(1,523)	(452)	(1,071)		5,688	1,549	4,139		29.7%	27.2%		-127%	-126%
All But Berkshire Hathaway
Union Pacific Corp	1,711	401	1,310		1,688	616	1,072		23.4%	36.5%		1%	22%
TD Ameritrade	372	101	271		344	130	214		27.2%	37.8%		8%	27%
Nelnet	149	36	113		77	29	48		24.2%	37.7%		94%	135%
Valmont Industries	53	13	40		55	15	40		24.5%	27.3%		-4%	0%
Werner Enterprises	35	7	28		26	10	16		20.0%	38.5%		35%	75%
Buckle	25	7	18		26	10	16		28.0%	38.5%		-4%	13%
Total all 6…No BH	2,345	565	1,780		2,216	810	1,406		24.1%	36.6%		6%	27%
Total all 7 Nebraska Cos	822	113	709		7,904	2,359	5,545		13.7%	29.8%		-90%	-87%