In this past recent post, I also found that these 32 Largest Nevada Corps filing with the SEC had Audited under US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (US GAAP) Total After-tax Net Income of $10.2 bil in the most recent fiscal year 2011, which was a profit improvement of a huge $22.9 bil, as compared with the $12.7 bil of After-tax Net Loss generated by these same 32 Nevada companies just three years earlier in 2008, the last year of the Bush/Cheney Administration.
Nevada 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 Nevada Corps have performed since President Obama took office.
Of these 32 Nevada Corps, 21 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 yesterday's date, Wednesday, October 10, 2012.
I retrieved all of the below stock market closing price information from the excellent Big Charts.com website.
These 21 Nevada Corps had an average stock market price increase of an incredibly high 178% since President Obama took office on January 20, 2009. This is far better than the increase in both the S&P 500 Index, which increased by 69%, and the Dow Industrials Index, which increased by 61%, both during the identical time span.
So what this means in simplistic terms is that if you invested the same amount of money.....say $1,000.....in the common stock of each of these 21 Nevada companies at the closing market price on January 16, 2009, this would have cost you initially $21,000, ignoring any transaction costs, and this stock portfolio would now be worth $58,380.
The many financially savvy Nevada citizens already had this all figured out. They probably just didn't previously have the precise average percentage increases tied down.
Nevada citizens have to be extremely happy with the stock market performance of their many fine Nevada companies during the Obama Administration.
And Nevada 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 Nevada 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 horrible financial meltdown, near Depression year of 2008.
When I think of the Obama Administration, the thought that comes top of mind is whole-scale competence. But frankly, it's also pretty clear to me that the Obama Administration is just not very good at selling its many accomplishments, particularly on the economic front. After all, playing a very helpful role in turning a stock portfolio of 21 Nevada companies from $21,000 to $58,380 in only 3 3/4 years is clearly something you want to write home about. In Nevada, they might call that hitting the jackpot.
About the only thing I hear from the Obama Administration on the economic front is the positive effect on the US economy of the Auto Rescue. Granted, this did positively and substantially impact Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and some other states. But the Auto Rescue had nothing to do with Nevada Corps 178% average stock price increase during the Obama Administration, nor Colorado Corps 179% average stock price increase during the Obama Administration, nor with Florida Corps 137% average stock price increase during the Obama Administration. There is something else very positive going on in the US economy since President Obama has taken over, and the Obama Administration has very modestly taken no credit for it. But when you think of the overall US economy in 2008 and now, there is clearly a substantial turnaround that has occurred, and the Obama Administration played a key role here in this massive economic revival from the depths of a near Depression.
Below here are the common stock market closing prices of each of these 21 Nevada 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 | ||
| Nevada | Price | Price | Increase | |
| HQs | 10-10-12 | 1-16-09 | (Decrease) | |
| S&P 500 Index | 1,432.56 | 850.12 | 69% | |
| Dow Industrials Index | 13,344.97 | 8,281.22 | 61% | |
| Companies Headquartered in Nevada | ||||
| Allied Nevada Gold | Reno | $38.97 | $4.30 | 806% |
| Spectrum Pharmaceuticals | Henderson | $11.98 | $1.48 | 709% |
| Las Vegas Sands | Las Vegas | $43.09 | $6.27 | 587% |
| Shuffle Master | Las Vegas | $15.03 | $4.19 | 259% |
| Amerco | Reno | $108.67 | $33.28 | 227% |
| Wynn Resorts | Las Vegas | $111.02 | $36.94 | 201% |
| Full House Resorts | Las Vegas | $3.50 | $1.17 | 199% |
| Global Cash Access Holdings | Las Vegas | $7.46 | $2.65 | 182% |
| Livedeal | Las Vegas | $4.15 | $1.70 | 144% |
| Ameristar Casino | Las Vegas | $17.66 | $7.80 | 126% |
| Bally Technologies | Las Vegas | $46.68 | $21.70 | 115% |
| Allegiant Travel | Las Vegas | $68.12 | $39.28 | 73% |
| Boyd Gaming | Las Vegas | $6.67 | $4.10 | 63% |
| Pinnacle Entertainment | Las Vegas | $11.31 | $7.03 | 61% |
| Employers Holdings | Reno | $18.34 | $14.39 | 27% |
| PDL Biopharma | Incline Village | $8.10 | $6.85 | 18% |
| Intl Game Technology | Las Vegas | $12.72 | $11.95 | 6% |
| MGM Resorts | Las Vegas | $10.17 | $9.93 | 2% |
| Vestin Realty Mortgage I | Las Vegas | $1.15 | $1.18 | -3% |
| Monarch Casino & Resort | Reno | $8.61 | $10.74 | -20% |
| Altair Nanotechnologies | Reno | $0.66 | $1.08 | -39% |
| Average Increase: all 21 Nevada Corps | 178% | |||
| S&P 500 Index | 1,432.56 | 850.12 | 69% | |
| Dow Industrials Index | 13,344.97 | 8,281.22 | 61% |
OK, so that now is six of the US Battleground States down, and a handful yet to go. So let's see.....here's the average stock market price increases during the Obama Administration for these six states.....Ohio Corps up 161%, Florida Corps up 137%, Virginia Corps up 97%, Colorado Corps up 179%, Michigan Corps blowing them all away by being up 344%, and now Nevada Corps up 178%. And all six states had average stock market price increases that were substantially higher than the overall stock market increases for the same time frame. Next up.....Iowa.
