The 44 US Cos, Driven By Micron Technology, With May Quarter Ends, With Market Caps of At Least $1 Bil and Which Have Released Their May 2018 Quarter Earnings By July 5, 2018 Generated May 2018 Quarter Total Pretax Income (PTI) of $19.9 Bil, Up an Exceptional 27% From Their May 2017 Quarter ........................................................................................ Thus, the 2,028 US Cos, Driven By US Big Oil and US Big Tech, With March, April or May Quarter Ends, With Market Caps of At Least $1 Bil and Which Have Released These 2018 Quarter Earnings By July 5, 2018 Generated March, April or May 2018 Quarter Total Pretax Income (PTI) of $454.2 Bil, Up a Robust 12.3% From Their Previous Year's Quarter ........................................................................................ On the Downside, There Were a Huge Number of US Cos Reporting in Their Most Recent Quarter Substantial Favorable PTI Increases, and Some Even in Excess of $1 Bil, Just Due To Unusual One-Time Discretionary Items, and Absent Them, the As-Adjusted Real Total PTI Growth Drops From 12.3% To Slightly Below 10%