Wednesday, June 17, 2020

The 12 Largest Nebraska Companies 1Q of 2020 Total Pretax Earnings Plummet By 300% or a Total Pretax Earnings Deterioration of $90.9 Bil From the 1Q of 2019

From a review of Company SEC filings and the Google Finance website, I found 12 Nebraska Companies with stock market caps above $200 mil recently.  

The table below shows the US GAAP Pretax Income (Loss) From Continuing Operations for the first quarter of both 2020 and 2019 for each of these 12 Nebraska Companies.


US US
GAAP GAAP
Pretax Pretax
Income Income
(Loss) (Loss) Better
First First (Worse)
Quarter Quarter %
Nebraska Largest Companies 2020 2019  Change
Market Caps Above $200 Mil City HQs mils $ mils $
Union Pacific Corp Omaha             1,918             1,790
TD Ameritrade Omaha                559                668
Valmont Industries Omaha                  57                  49
First National of Nebraska Omaha                  32                106
Werner Enterprises Omaha                  30                  48
National Research Corp Lincoln                  11                  10
Lindsay Corp Omaha                    7                  (5)
Buckle Kearney                (16)                  20
Boston Omaha Omaha                (25)                  (4)
Nelnet Lincoln                (50)                  53
Green Plains Omaha                (63)                (46)
Berkshire Hathaway (BH) Omaha         (63,049)           27,647
Total all 12 Nebraska Companies          (60,589)           30,336 -300%

US Presidential candidate Joe Biden and Barack Obama are holding a joint virtual grassroots fundraiser on Tuesday June 23, 2020 at 5:15 PM Eastern time.