The 12 Iowa Companies With Market Caps of at Least $1 Bil Posted March or April 2018 Quarter Total Pretax Income of $1.0 Bil, Up Only 3% From Their March or April 2017 Quarter and 9% Below the 12% Earnings Growth of All US Companies With the Same Market Caps .......................................................................................

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 Iowa 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
Iowa 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 $
Principal Financial	457	55	402		414	60	354		12.0%	14.5%		10%	14%
Rockwell Collins	306	69	237		233	65	168		22.5%	27.9%		31%	41%
American Equity Investment Life	178	37	141		81	27	54		20.8%	33.3%		120%	161%
FG Holdings	87	35	52		35	13	22		40.2%	37.1%		149%	136%
Heartland USA	28	5	23		24	6	18		17.9%	25.0%		17%	28%
FBL Financial Group	28	5	23		37	11	26		17.9%	29.7%		-24%	-12%
United Fire Group	21	1	20		23	4	19		4.8%	17.4%		-9%	5%
Casey's General Stores	19	-	19		43	13	30		0.0%	30.2%		-56%	-37%
Heartland Express	13	-	13		20	6	14		0.0%	30.0%		-35%	-7%
HNI Corp	1	(1)	2		7	2	5		-100.0%	28.6%		-86%	-60%
Workiva	(10)	-	(10)		(6)	-	(6)		0.0%	0.0%		-67%	-67%
Meredith	(125)	(30)	(95)		66	26	40		24.0%	39.4%		-289%	-338%
Total all 12 Iowa Cos	1,003	176	827		977	233	744		17.5%	23.8%		3%	11%