Maine’s 2 Large Companies Pretax Earnings On Fire, Increase By 34% in the Second Quarter 2018 and By 31% in the First Quarter 2018. It’s pretty clear that to function much better, the US Congress needs many more Independents like Angus King. ...............................................................................

From a review of US SEC filings, there were 2 Companies headquartered in Maine with stock market caps 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 Second and First Quarters of both 2018 and 2017 for these 2 Maine Companies.

	US	US			US	US
	GAAP	GAAP			GAAP	GAAP
	Pretax	Pretax			Pretax	Pretax
	Income	Income			Income	Income
	(Loss)	(Loss)			(Loss)	(Loss)
	June Qtr	June Qtr	%		Mar Qtr	Mar Qtr	%
	July Qtr	July Qtr	Change		Apr Qtr	Apr Qtr	Change
Maine Companies	or Aug Qtr	or Aug Qtr	Better		or May Qtr	or May Qtr	Better
Market Caps Above $1 Bil	2018	2017	(Worse)		2018	2017	(Worse)
	mils $	mils $			mils $	mils $
Idexx Labs	137	115	19%		104	85	22%
WEX Inc	53	27	96%		65	44	48%
Total both Maine Companies	190	142	34%		169	129	31%