West Virginia Banks Continue To Excel on the Earnings Front, Delivering Total Pretax Earnings Growth of an Exceptional 34% in the Most Recent Second Quarter of 2018, an Acceleration of Their 19% Robust Earnings Growth in the First Quarter of 2018 ...............................................................................

From a review of US SEC filings, there were 3 Companies headquartered in West Virginia ….. All Banks ….. with a stock market cap 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 Second and First Quarters of both 2018 and 2017 for these 3 West Virginia Banks.

	US	US			US	US
	GAAP	GAAP			GAAP	GAAP
	Pretax	Pretax			Pretax	Pretax
	Income	Income			Income	Income
	(Loss)	(Loss)			(Loss)	(Loss)
	June Qtr	June Qtr	Better		Mar Qtr	Mar Qtr	Better
	July Qtr	July Qtr	(Worse)		Apr Qtr	Apr Qtr	(Worse)
West Virginia Companies	or Aug Qtr	or Aug Qtr	%		or May Qtr	or May Qtr	%
Market Caps Above $1 Bil	2018	2017	Change		2018	2017	Change
	mils $	mils $			mils $	mils $
United Bankshares	85	56	52%		80	59	36%
Wesbanco	40	36			41	37
City Holding	26	21			22	24
Total all 3 West Virginia Banks	151	113	34%		143	120	19%