The historical stock prices of these companies were obtained from the following two excellent internet resources.... Google Finance and MarketWatch Big Charts.
These 19 US Major Diversified Chemical Companies had their average stock prices drop by a massive 60% from December 31, 2007 during President Bush's second Presidential term, to March 6, 2009, very early in President Obama's first term, which was the very lowest point for the overall stock market due to the spillover effects resulting from the disastrous 2008 Financial Meltdown.
But since March 6, 2009, the average stock prices of these same 19 US Major Diversified Chemical Corps have increased by a very impressive 464% through January 27, 2014, led by Asland. And all 19 had stock price appreciation with the lowest increase being a very healthy 128%.
Clearly, the investors in and employees of all 19 of these US Major Diversified Chemical Companies must be very 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 19 US Major Diversified Chemical Companies on January 27, 2014, on March 6, 2009, and on December 31, 2007, sorted by Percentage Increase from March 6, 2009 to January 27, 2014:
| Market | Market | ||||||
| Price | Price | ||||||
| % | % | ||||||
| Change | Change | ||||||
| Market | Market | Market | 3-6-09 | 12-31-07 | |||
| Price | Price | Price | to | to | |||
| Chemicals- Major Diversified | HQs | 1-27-14 | 3-6-09 | 12-31-07 | 1-27-14 | 3-6-09 | |
| Ashland | Covington | KY | 95.29 | 6.08 | 47.43 | 1467% | -87% |
| Arabian American Development Co | Sugar Land | TX | 11.44 | 0.87 | 7.65 | 1215% | -89% |
| Huntsman | Salt Lake City | UT | 21.70 | 2.25 | 25.70 | 864% | -91% |
| Eastman Chemical | Kingsport | TN | 74.38 | 9.13 | 30.55 | 715% | -70% |
| Celanese Corp | Irving | TX | 51.43 | 8.36 | 42.32 | 515% | -80% |
| Dow Chemical | Midland | MI | 43.10 | 7.11 | 39.42 | 506% | -82% |
| Rex American Resources | Dayton | OH | 40.09 | 6.86 | 15.77 | 484% | -56% |
| LSB Industries | Oklahoma City | OK | 35.11 | 7.05 | 28.22 | 398% | -75% |
| Valhi | Dallas | TX | 14.08 | 2.95 | 5.31 | 377% | -44% |
| Balchem | New Hampton | NY | 54.61 | 12.93 | 14.92 | 322% | -13% |
| Aceto | Port Washington | NY | 21.19 | 5.28 | 8.00 | 301% | -34% |
| FMC Corp | Philadelphia | PA | 71.69 | 17.97 | 27.28 | 299% | -34% |
| Airgas Inc | Radnor | PA | 106.85 | 27.09 | 52.11 | 294% | -48% |
| DuPont | Wilmington | DE | 60.24 | 16.87 | 44.09 | 257% | -62% |
| Rentech | Los Angeles | CA | 1.81 | 0.56 | 1.81 | 223% | -69% |
| A. Schulman | Fairlawn | OH | 33.29 | 12.56 | 21.55 | 165% | -42% |
| Landec | Menlo Park | CA | 11.22 | 4.45 | 13.40 | 152% | -67% |
| Air Products & Chemicals | Allentown | PA | 106.24 | 46.41 | 98.63 | 129% | -53% |
| Praxair | Danbury | CT | 125.74 | 55.24 | 88.71 | 128% | -38% |
| Average % Change all 19 | 464% | -60% |
