Delaware Companies Pretax Earnings Declined By a Huge 39% in the First Half 2018, After Declining By an Even Worse 47% in Annual Fiscal Year Ended 2017 .....................................................................................

From a review of US SEC filings, there were 8 Companies headquartered in Delaware with stock market caps or total equity of more than $1 Bil recently.

My focus is on Pretax Income rather than on After-Tax Net Income because Income Taxes are simply a transfer of financial wealth between US Corporations and the US Federal, US State and Foreign Governments.  It has nothing whatsoever to do with Company Operating Performance.

From a review of SEC filings, the chart below shows the Gold-Standard US GAAP Pretax Income (Loss) From Continuing Operations for the First Half of Both 2018 and 2017 for these 8 Delaware Companies.

	US	US
	GAAP	GAAP
	Pretax	Pretax
	Income	Income
	(Loss)	(Loss)
	6 Months	6 Months
	June	June	Better
	July	July	(Worse)
Delaware Companies	or Aug	or Aug	%
Market Caps Above $1 Bil	2018	2017	Change
	mils $	mils $
Chemours Co	704	398	77%
DuPont	466	2,181	-79%
SLM Corp	317	261
Navient	275	313
WSFS Financial	84	59
Chesapeake Utilities	46	42
Interdigital	35	110
Incyte Corp	14	(207)	107%
Total all 8 Delaware Cos	1,941	3,157	-39%