North Dakota MDU Resources Pretax Earnings Decline By 4% in the First Half of 2018, an Earnings Reversal From Its Pretax Earnings Growth of 7% in Annual 2017 and of a Superb 32% in Annual 2016 ...............................................................................

From a review of US SEC filings, there was 1 Company headquartered in North Dakota with a stock market cap 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 MDU Resources.

	US	US
	GAAP	GAAP
	Pretax	Pretax
	Income	Income
	(Loss)	(Loss)
	6 Months	6 Months
	Ended	Ended
	June	June	Better
	July	July	(Worse)
North Dakota Company	or Aug	or Aug	%
Market Caps Above $1 Bil	2018	2017	Change
	mils $	mils $
MDU Resources	104	108	-4%