Montana 2 Largest Bank Companies Pretax Earnings Up By 32% in the First Half of 2018 ...............................................................................

From a review of US SEC filings, there were 2 Companies, both Banks, headquartered in Montana 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 First Half of 2018 and 2017 for these 2 Montana Companies.

	US	US
	GAAP	GAAP
	Pretax	Pretax
	Income	Income
	(Loss)	(Loss)
	6 Months	6 Months
	Ended	Ended
	June	June	Better
	July	July	(Worse)
Montana Companies	or Aug	or Aug	%
Market Caps Above $1 Bil	2018	2017	Change
	mils $	mils $
Glacier Bancorp	101	87
First Interstate Banc System	101	66
Total both Montana Banks	202	153	32%