South Dakota Companies Pretax Earnings Increase By 8% in the First Half of 2018 ..............................................................................

From a review of US SEC filings, there were 5 Companies headquartered in South Dakota with stock market caps of more than $1 Bil several months ago.

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 5 South Dakota Companies.

	US	US
	GAAP	GAAP
	Pretax	Pretax
	Income	Income
	(Loss)	(Loss)
	6 Months	6 Months
	Ended	Ended
	June	June	Better
	July	July	(Worse)
South Dakota Companies	or Aug	or Aug	%
Market Caps Above $1 Bil	2018	2017	Change
	mils $	mils $
Black Hills	147	153
Great Western Bancorp	117	106
Northwestern Corp	107	85
Meta Financial Group	45	52
Raven Industries	44	30
Total all 5 South Dakota Companies	460	426	8%