These 16 Largest Kentucky Corps filing with the SEC generated Externally Audited US GAAP Total After-tax Net Income from Continuing Operations of $4.1 bil in the most recent fiscal year 2011, which was a 47% profit increase as compared with the Total After-tax Net Income of $2.8 bil generated by these same 16 Kentucky companies just three years earlier in 2008, the last year of the Bush/Cheney Administration.
Kentucky Corp 2011 Earnings
Since corporate earnings drive stock prices, in this post I turn my attention to just how well the stock market prices of these Kentucky Corps have performed since President Obama took office.
Of these 16 Kentucky Corps, 14 of them had their common stock trading on both January 16, 2009, which is the last day stocks traded before President Obama took office, and also on last Friday, October 19, 2012.
I retrieved all of the below stock market closing price information from the excellent Big Charts.com website.
These 14 Kentucky Corps had an average stock market price increase of a very impressive 154% since President Obama took office on January 20, 2009. This is 2.2 times the 69% increase in the S&P 500 Index and 2.5 times the 61% increase in the Dow Industrials Index, both during the same time span.
Kentucky citizens have to be very happy with the stock market performance of their many fine Kentucky companies during the Obama Administration.
And Kentucky citizens also must be very pleased with how the Obama Administration worked so hard and very effectively on so many fronts to create a US economic environment that permitted these Kentucky companies to flat out flourish. This highly successful effort created a robust US economic environment which was quite a change from what existed in the just horrible financial meltdown, near Depression year of 2008.
So it's not just the Blue States and Swing States which have had very robust average stock market price increases during the Obama Administration. Corporations in all Red States, including Kentucky, have also been fortunate to experience these very nice average stock market price increases too. This just shows that the Obama Administration has been evenhanded in focusing on creating an excellent US economic environment that have permitted businesses all throughout the country to prosper.
Below here are the common stock market closing prices of each of these 14 Kentucky companies at both the most recent date, and also at the date just before President Obama took office, as well as the percentage stock market price changes for this period of time.
| Market | Market | Percentage | ||
| Kentucky | Price | Price | Increase | |
| HQs | 10-19-12 | 1-16-09 | (Decrease) | |
| S&P 500 Index | 1,433.19 | 850.12 | 69% | |
| Dow Industrials Index | 13,343.51 | 8,281.22 | 61% | |
| Kentucky Corps | ||||
| Ashland | Covington | $69.96 | $10.01 | 599% |
| Sypris Solutions | Louisville | $7.13 | $1.16 | 515% |
| Tempur Pedic | Lexington | $33.12 | $6.93 | 378% |
| Papa Johns Intl | Louisville | $53.10 | $16.91 | 214% |
| Yum Brands | Louisville | $70.09 | $29.91 | 134% |
| Humana | Louisville | $74.98 | $33.28 | 125% |
| Texas Roadhouse | Louisville | $16.78 | $8.00 | 110% |
| Brown Forman | Louisville | $61.76 | $33.67 | 83% |
| General Cable | Highland Heights | $30.19 | $17.99 | 68% |
| Churchill Downs | Louisville | $64.03 | $38.36 | 67% |
| Republic Bancorp | Louisville | $20.53 | $22.81 | -10% |
| Lexmark | Lexington | $21.68 | $25.45 | -15% |
| Kindred Healthcare | Louisville | $10.40 | $14.54 | -28% |
| Porter Bancorp | Louisville | $1.87 | $13.00 | -86% |
| Average Increase: All 14 Largest Kentucky Corps | 154% | |||
| S&P 500 Index | 1,433.19 | 850.12 | 69% | |
| Dow Industrials Index | 13,343.51 | 8,281.22 | 61% |
