In deriving these US Industrial Equipment & Components Corps, I first started with the very helpful Yahoo Finance Website Industrial Equipment and Components Industry .
The historical stock prices of these companies were obtained from the following two excellent internet resources.... Google Finance and MarketWatch Big Charts.
These 14 largest US Industrial Equipment and Components Companies had their average stock prices drop by a massive 62% from December 31, 2007 during President Bush's second Presidential term, and very early in President Obama's first term on March 6, 2009, which was the very lowest point due to the spillover effects resulting from the disastrous 2008 Financial Meltdown.
But since March 6, 2009, the average stock prices of these same 14 largest US Industrial Equipment and Components Corps have increased by a spectacular 666% through January 21, 2014. And 13 of these 14 had increases above 250% each.
Clearly, the investors in and employees of these 14 US largest US Industrial Equipment and Components Companies must be extremely pleased with the impact of actions taken by both the Obama Administration and the US Fed to successfully rescue the US economy from its extremely weakened state caused by the 2008 US financial meltdown.
Below here are the market prices of each of these 14 largest US Industrial Equipment and Components Companies on January 21, 2014, on March 6, 2009, and on December 31, 2007, sorted by Percentage Increase from March 6, 2009 to January 21, 2014:
| Market | Market | ||||||
| Price | Price | ||||||
| % | % | ||||||
| Change | Change | ||||||
| Market | Market | Market | 3-6-09 | 12-31-07 | |||
| Price | Price | Price | to | to | |||
| Industrial Equipment & Components Company | HQs | 1-21-14 | 3-6-09 | 12-31-07 | 1-21-14 | 3-6-09 | |
| TriMas Corp | Bloomfield Hills | MI | 38.95 | 1.04 | 10.59 | 3645% | -90% |
| Material Sciences Corp | Elk Grove Village | IL | 12.67 | 1.00 | 7.43 | 1167% | -87% |
| Standex Intl | Salem | NH | 61.58 | 8.55 | 17.45 | 620% | -51% |
| H&E Equipment Services | Baton Rouge | LA | 32.52 | 4.95 | 18.88 | 557% | -74% |
| Sun Hydraulics | Sarasota | FL | 39.66 | 7.18 | 16.82 | 452% | -57% |
| EnPro Industries | Charlotte | NC | 76.96 | 14.63 | 30.65 | 426% | -52% |
| Barnes Group | Bristol | CT | 40.71 | 8.01 | 33.39 | 408% | -76% |
| Chase Corp | Bridgewater | MA | 36.50 | 7.76 | 25.23 | 370% | -69% |
| Mueller Water Products | Atlanta | GA | 9.04 | 1.98 | 9.52 | 357% | -79% |
| Parker-Hannifin | Cleveland | OH | 126.82 | 28.63 | 75.31 | 343% | -62% |
| Pentair Ltd | Minneapolis | MN | 77.75 | 17.95 | 34.81 | 333% | -48% |
| CIRCOR Intl | Burlington | MA | 77.62 | 18.23 | 46.36 | 326% | -61% |
| Watts Water Technologies | North Hanover | MA | 59.77 | 16.67 | 29.80 | 259% | -44% |
| OmegaFlex | Exton | PA | 20.43 | 12.56 | 16.38 | 63% | -23% |
| Average % Change all 14 | 666% | -62% |
