The 30 Missouri Companies With Market Caps of at Least $1 Bil Posted March or April 2018 Quarter Total Pretax Income (PTI) of $5.7 Bil, Up 9% From Their March or April 2017 Quarter and 3% Below the 12% Earnings Growth of All US Companies With the Same Market Caps ....................................................................................... First, the Good News ....................................................................................... Missouri Health Insurance Co Centene Generated March 2018 Quarter PTI of $513 Mil, Up a Blistering 134% From Its March 2017 Quarter ....................................................................................... The 2 Missouri Coal Mining Companies Posted March 2018 Quarter Total PTI Which Was Up an Exceptional 55% From Their March 2017 Quarter ....................................................................................... The 10 Missouri Manufacturing Cos Posted March or April 2018 Quarter Total PTI Which Was Up By a Robust 16% From Their March or April 2017 Quarter ....................................................................................... Now For the Bad News ....................................................................................... Missouri Tax-Preparation Giant H&R Block Generated April 2018 Quarter PTI of $1.2 Bil, Up Only 2% From Its April 2017 Quarter. Just Like Amazon is Flattening Brick and Mortar Retailers, Technology Software & Services Co Intuit is Flattening H&R Block. ....................................................................................... The 6 Missouri Financial Cos Excluding Health Insurer Centene Posted March 2018 Quarter Total PTI Which Was Down 1% From Their March 2017 Quarter ....................................................................................... The 3 Missouri Health Care Cos Posted March 2018 Quarter Total PTI Which Was Down 13% From Their March 2017 Quarter ....................................................................................... And the 4 Missouri Cos in Other Sectors Posted March 2018 Quarter Total PTI Which Was Precisely Flat With That in Their March 2017 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 Missouri 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
Missouri 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 $
Health Insurance
Centene	513	175	338		219	87	132		34.1%	39.7%		134%	156%
Coal Mining Cos
Peabody Energy	218	10	208		126	2	124		4.6%	1.6%		73%	68%
Arch Coal	59	(1)	60		53	1	52		-1.7%	1.9%		11%	15%
Total 2 Coal Mining Cos	277	9	268		179	3	176		3.2%	1.7%		55%	52%
Manufacturing Cos
Emerson Electric	658	169	489		565	181	384		25.7%	32.0%		16%	27%
Post Holdings	116	24	92		(4)	(2)	(2)		20.7%	50.0%		3000%	4700%
Leggett & Platt	95	17	78		107	21	86		17.9%	19.6%		-11%	-9%
Edgewell Personal Care	86	21	65		90	24	66		24.4%	26.7%		-4%	-2%
Hostess Brands	36	7	29		34	10	24		19.4%	29.4%		6%	21%
Olin Corp	28	7	21		18	5	13		25.0%	27.8%		56%	62%
Caleres	22	5	17		21	6	15		22.7%	28.6%		5%	13%
Energizer Holdings	18	10	8		59	12	47		55.6%	20.3%		-69%	-83%
ESCO Technologies	14	4	10		17	6	11		28.6%	35.3%		-18%	-9%
Belden	7	4	3		28	2	26		57.1%	7.1%		-75%	-88%
Total all 10 Manufacturing Cos	1,080	268	812		935	265	670		24.8%	28.3%		16%	21%
Utility Cos
Ameren Corp	195	42	153		161	57	104		21.5%	35.4%		21%	47%
Spire	117	19	98		161	53	108		16.2%	32.9%		-27%	-9%
Great Plains Energy	41	6	35		(16)	(6)	(10)		14.6%	37.5%		356%	450%
Total all 3 Utility Cos	353	67	286		306	104	202		19.0%	34.0%		15%	42%
Tax Preparation Giant
H & R Block	1,231	85	1,146		1,212	425	787		6.9%	35.1%		2%	46%
All Financials But Centene
Reinsurance Group	138	38	100		208	62	146		27.5%	29.8%		-34%	-32%
Commerce Bancshares	125	23	102		97	25	72		18.4%	25.8%		29%	42%
Stifel Financial	120	31	89		79	14	65		25.8%	17.7%		52%	37%
UMB Financial	68	10	58		54	12	42		14.7%	22.2%		26%	38%
EPR Properties	31	1	30		55	1	54		3.2%	1.8%		-44%	-44%
Enterprise Financial Services Grp	25	4	21		17	5	12		16.0%	29.4%		47%	75%
Total 6 Financials..No Centene	507	107	400		510	119	391		21.1%	23.3%		-1%	2%
Health Care Cos
Mallinckrodt plc	(86)	(43)	(43)		(87)	(42)	(45)		50.0%	48.3%		1%	4%
Cerner	200	40	160		243	70	173		20.0%	28.8%		-18%	-8%
Express Scripts	820	194	626		915	365	550		23.7%	39.9%		-10%	14%
Total all 3 Health Care Cos	934	191	743		1,071	393	678		20.4%	36.7%		-13%	10%
All Other Sectors
O Reilly Auto	395	90	305		385	120	265		22.8%	31.2%		3%	15%
Kansas City Southern	222	77	145		238	91	147		34.7%	38.2%		-7%	-1%
Amdocs Ltd	132	30	102		134	21	113		22.7%	15.7%		-1%	-10%
Jack Henry & Associates	96	23	73		88	28	60		24.0%	31.8%		9%	22%
Total 4 in all Other Sectors	845	220	625		845	260	585		26.0%	30.8%		0%	7%
Total all 30 Missouri Cos	5,740	1,122	4,618		5,277	1,656	3,621		19.5%	31.4%		9%	28%