Thursday, September 5, 2013

Utah Corps Stock Prices Up 258% Since President Obama Took Office

From a review of SEC Filings , I found 11 Corps headquartered in the State of Utah which generated Audited After-tax Net Income or Net Loss of at least $50 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.

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

These 11 Utah Corps had their average stock prices increase by a very impressive 258% from January 16, 2009 to September 4, 2013.  This 258% increase is 2.7 times the 94% increase in the S&P 500 Index over the same time span.

Below here are the common stock market closing prices of each of these 11 Utah 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

Utah Price Price Increase

HQs 9-4-13 1-16-09 (Decrease)
Utah Largest Corps








Lifevantage Sandy $2.43 $0.20 1115%
Nu Skin Enterprises Provo $84.74 $10.14 736%
Huntsman Salt Lake City $17.75 $3.11 471%
Extra Space Storage Salt Lake City $40.81 $9.43 333%
Questar Salt Lake City $21.82 $10.88 101%
Zions Bancorp Salt Lake City $28.41 $16.49 72%
Headwaters South Jordan $8.68 $5.24 66%
FX Energy Salt Lake City $3.43 $2.91 18%
EnergySolutions Salt Lake City $4.14 $4.91 -16%
Myriad Genetics Salt Lake City $27.25 $35.05 -22%
SkyWest St George $12.84 $18.22 -30%





Average Increase: All 11 Largest Utah Corps


258%