The 15 Kansas Companies With Market Caps of at Least $1 Bil Posted March 2018 Quarter Total Pretax Income (PTI) Which Was Down By a Hefty 33% From Their March 2017 Quarter, Driven By Sprint Which Had a March 2018 Quarter Pretax Loss of $349 Mil as Compared to a Lower March 2017 Quarter Pretax Loss of $134 Mil ........................................................................................ The Remaining 14 Kansas Cos Excluding Sprint Generated March 2018 Quarter Total PTI Which Was Flat With That in Their March 2017 Quarter ........................................................................................ US Consumers Would Benefit Greatly If the Financially Struggling Sprint and T-Mobile US Would Be Permitted to Merge, With the Result Being a Much More Competitive Market With 3 Large Telecom Players ........................................................................................

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 2018 and 2017 Quarters for all US  Companies including both Partnerships and REITs which are Headquartered in the US State of Kansas with March 2018 Quarter Ends, with stock market caps above $1 Bil recently and which have released their March 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.

									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
Kansas 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 $
Sprint Corp	(349)	(412)	63		(134)	149	(283)		118.1%	-111.2%		-160%	122%
All But Sprint
Garmin Ltd	154	25	129		88	(150)	238		16.2%	-170.5%		75%	-46%
Spirit AeroSystems	153	28	125		206	64	142		18.3%	31.1%		-26%	-12%
Tallgrass Energy Partners LP	110	-	110		72	-	72		0.0%	0.0%		53%	53%
Westar Energy	72	9	63		84	21	63		12.5%	25.0%		-14%	0%
Waddell & Reed Financial	61	15	46		53	19	34		24.6%	35.8%		15%	35%
Seaboard	54	22	32		112	28	84		40.7%	25.0%		-52%	-62%
Euronet Worldwide	40	14	26		37	9	28		35.0%	24.3%		8%	-7%
CURO Group Holdings	35	12	23		26	9	17		34.3%	34.6%		35%	35%
Capitol Federal Financial	32	9	23		33	11	22		28.1%	33.3%		-3%	5%
AMC Entertainment Holdings	22	5	17		(1)	(9)	8		22.7%	900.0%		-2300%	113%
NIC Inc	21	5	16		21	7	14		23.8%	33.3%		0%	14%
Compass Minerals Intl	17	4	13		28	6	22		23.5%	21.4%		-39%	-41%
MGP Ingredients	10	1	9		12	3	9		10.0%	25.0%		-17%	0%
QTS Realty Services	(3)	(3)	-		4	(2)	6		100.0%	-50.0%		-175%	-100%
Total 14 … No Sprint	778	146	632		775	16	759		18.8%	2.1%		0%	-17%
Total all 15	429	(266)	695		641	165	476		-62.0%	25.7%		-33%	46%