Kansas Corps Stock Prices Up 108% Since President Obama Took Office

From a review of SEC Filings , I found 10 Corps headquartered in the State of Kansas which generated Audited After-tax Net Income or Net Loss of at least $100 mil each in any of the five years from 2007-2011, and which also 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 September 4, 2013 or were acquired in the past year.

The historical stock prices were obtained from the following two excellent internet resources.....  Google Finance and MarketWatch Big Charts .

These 10 Kansas Corps had their average stock prices increase by 108% from January 16, 2009 to September 4, 2013.

Below here are the common stock market closing prices of each of these 10 Kansas Corps at both the most recent date (September 4, 2013) and also at the date just before President Obama took office in his first term (Jan 16, 2009), as well as the percentage stock market price changes for this period of time:

		Market	Market	Percentage
	Kansas	Price	Price	Increase
	HQs	9-4-13	1-16-09	(Decrease)
Kansas Largest Corps
Sprint Nextel	Overland Park	$7.65	$2.21	246%
Waddell & Reed	Overland Park	$48.66	$14.34	239%
Euronext Worldwide	Leawood	$35.13	$10.43	237%
Garmin Ltd	Olathe	$42.30	$17.88	137%
Seaboard	Shawnee Mission	$2,725	$1,154	136%
Spirit AeroSystem	Wichita	$23.01	$11.85	94%
Collective Brands	Topeka	$21.72	$11.59	87%
Compass Minerals	Overland Park	$73.00	$51.36	42%
Capitol Federal Financial	Topeka	$12.18	$19.61	-38%
YRC Worldwide	Overland Park	$17.71	$1,056.00	-98%
Average Increase: All 10 Largest Kansas Corps				108%