The 9 Alabama Companies With Market Caps of at Least $1 Bil Posted March 2018 Quarter Total Pretax Income (PTI) of $1.2 Bil, Up 39% From Their March 2017 Quarter .................................................................................. Three Alabama Cos ..... a Bank, an Oil & Gas Co and a Coal Co ..... , Which Comprised More Than 70% of the Total PTI in the March 2018 Quarter of All 9 Alabama Cos, Drove This 39% PTI Growth, Similar To What Is Going On in Banks and in Oil & Gas Cos Throughout Much of the US ....................................................................................... By Far the Most Profitable Alabama Co is Regions Financial, Which Got an Incredibly Substantial Earnings Boost From the US Fed Raising Short-Term Interest Rates. Regions Financial's March 2018 Quarter Net Interest Income Margin Increased By $130 Mil, Which Comprised More Than All of Its Pretax Income Increase of $122 Mil ....................................................................................... And Alabama Oil & Gas Co Energen Increased Its PTI By an Off-the-Charts 192%, Even More Than Double That of the Texas Oil & Gas Cos .......................................................................................

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 Alabama 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 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
Alabama 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 $
Regions Financial	542	128	414		420	127	293		23.6%	30.2%		29%	41%
Warrior Met Coal	179	-	179		110	2	108		0.0%	1.8%		63%	66%
Energen Corp	155	36	119		53	20	33		23.2%	37.7%		192%	261%
Encompass Health	136	30	106		125	40	85		22.1%	32.0%		9%	25%
Medical Properties Trust	92	1	91		69	1	68		1.1%	1.4%		33%	34%
Vulcan Materials	48	(5)	53		40	(3)	43		-10.4%	-7.5%		20%	23%
ServisFirst Bancshares	40	7	33		30	8	22		17.5%	26.7%		33%	50%
Infinity Property & Casualty	25	5	20		15	4	11		20.0%	26.7%		67%	82%
ProAssurance	8	(4)	12		40	(1)	41		-50.0%	-2.5%		-80%	-71%
Total all 9 Alabama Cos	1,225	198	1,027		902	198	704		16.2%	22.0%		36%	46%