The historical stock prices were obtained from the following two excellent internet resources..... Google Finance and MarketWatch Big Charts .
These 157 US Technology Corps had their average stock prices increase by an exceptionally strong 235% from January 16, 2009 to January 3, 2014. This 235% increase was more than double the 115% increase in the S&P 500 Index over the same time span.
Financially-savvy employees and stockholders of these US Technology Companies have to be extremely happy with the Obama Administration.....an average stock price increase of 235% in just less than 5 years is incredible.
This exceptional stock price increase in the Technology Sector is driving a very nice increase in well-paying US jobs in the key US technology sector.
And the job-multiplier effect with US technology jobs is flat out superb. Thus the continued growth in US technology jobs will help narrow somewhat the huge gap between the very wealthy and everyone else.
One thing the key US Technology Sector desperately needs is for timely, simple, permanent US job-creating Research and Experimental Tax Credits.
The current US Congress process of annually giving R&E tax credits retroactively has to be one of the dumbest things ever done by the US Congress. You should give tax incentives to change future economic behavior, not to reward something much after it has already happened.
R&E spending is predominantly for people costs. The optimal incentive for hiring by US Technology Companies is for them to see tax legislation that already exists when they are contemplating whether to hire someone or not.
Let me make a prediction. If with the November 2014 election, the US Senate remains in Democratic Control and also the US House switches to Democratic Control, this 235% average stock price increase for these 157 US Technology Companies will increase to above 400% over President Obama's entire eight-year Presidential run. I am pretty certain of it.
Below here are the common stock market closing prices of each of these 157 US Technology Companies at both the most recent date (Jan 3, 2014) 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 | ||
| State | Price | Price | Increase | |
| HQs | 1-3-14 | 1-16-09 | (Decrease) | |
| Technology Companies | ||||
| Priceline | CT | 1,132.68 | 71.13 | 1492% |
| Seagate Technology | CA | 56.82 | 4.39 | 1194% |
| Netflix | CA | 363.10 | 31.26 | 1062% |
| LTX-Credence | MA | 8.46 | 0.84 | 907% |
| Expedia | WA | 69.20 | 8.59 | 706% |
| Kulicke & Soffa | PA | 13.13 | 1.67 | 686% |
| Salesforce.com | CA | 55.12 | 7.03 | 684% |
| Acme Packet | MA | 29.24 | 3.80 | 669% |
| Amazon.com | WA | 396.44 | 51.59 | 668% |
| IPG Photonics | MA | 75.11 | 9.94 | 656% |
| Sanmina | CA | 16.58 | 2.28 | 627% |
| Rackspace Hosting | TX | 37.55 | 5.28 | 611% |
| Apple | CA | 540.98 | 82.33 | 557% |
| iGATE | CA | 40.11 | 6.41 | 526% |
| Western Digital | CA | 83.28 | 13.31 | 526% |
| Micron Technology | ID | 20.97 | 3.40 | 517% |
| Skyworks Solutions | MA | 27.72 | 4.59 | 504% |
| Sandisk | CA | 68.86 | 12.03 | 472% |
| Cerner | MO | 54.70 | 10.03 | 445% |
| Finisar | CA | 23.72 | 4.36 | 444% |
| Vishay Intertechnology | PA | 13.26 | 2.51 | 429% |
| Power One | CA | 6.34 | 1.22 | 420% |
| Loral Space & Communications | NY | 79.61 | 15.80 | 404% |
| Cognizant Technology Solutions | NJ | 98.32 | 20.36 | 383% |
| Synnex | CA | 63.82 | 13.60 | 369% |
| Gartner | NJ | 69.74 | 14.88 | 369% |
| VeriFone Systems | CA | 25.79 | 5.55 | 365% |
| Trimble Navigation | CA | 34.57 | 7.61 | 354% |
| IAC/Interactive | NY | 68.42 | 15.14 | 352% |
| FEI Co | OR | 88.99 | 19.84 | 349% |
| TIBCO Software | CA | 23.26 | 5.24 | 344% |
| Aspen Technology | MA | 41.59 | 9.50 | 338% |
| Sapient | MA | 17.16 | 4.00 | 329% |
| RF Micro Devices | NC | 4.85 | 1.15 | 322% |
| Plantronics | CA | 45.66 | 10.88 | 320% |
| VMware | CA | 89.42 | 22.00 | 306% |
| Ebay | CA | 53.26 | 13.26 | 302% |
| TriQuint Semiconductor | OR | 8.32 | 2.10 | 296% |
| FMC Technologies | TX | 51.90 | 13.12 | 296% |
| ValueClick | CA | 22.82 | 5.78 | 295% |
| MICROS Systems | MD | 56.64 | 14.49 | 291% |
| F5 Networks | WA | 88.03 | 22.55 | 290% |
| Red Hat | NC | 55.78 | 14.82 | 276% |
| Riverbed Technology | CA | 17.92 | 4.86 | 269% |
| CA | 1,105.00 | 299.67 | 269% | |
| PTC | MA | 34.76 | 9.64 | 261% |
| Motorola Solutions | IL | 66.20 | 18.59 | 256% |
| Cadence Design Systems | CA | 14.17 | 3.99 | 255% |
| Akamai Tech | MA | 46.45 | 13.08 | 255% |
| Unisys | PA | 32.98 | 9.40 | 251% |
| Syntel | MI | 91.93 | 26.37 | 249% |
| Cree | NC | 62.46 | 17.93 | 248% |
| ANSYS | PA | 85.60 | 24.64 | 247% |
| Yahoo | CA | 40.12 | 11.59 | 246% |
| JDS Uniphase | CA | 13.03 | 3.79 | 244% |
| Teradyne | MA | 17.56 | 5.11 | 244% |
| LSI | CA | 11.03 | 3.30 | 234% |
| Roper Industries | FL | 138.23 | 42.08 | 228% |
| Insight Enterprises | AZ | 22.11 | 6.74 | 228% |
| Equinix | CA | 173.42 | 53.71 | 223% |
| VeriSign | VA | 59.84 | 18.61 | 222% |
| Intuit | CA | 75.80 | 24.01 | 216% |
| Jack Henry | MO | 58.98 | 18.97 | 211% |
| Informatica | CA | 40.82 | 13.13 | 211% |
| Check Point Software | CA | 64.29 | 20.96 | 207% |
| Solera Holdings | TX | 70.34 | 22.98 | 206% |
| Autodesk | CA | 48.90 | 16.14 | 203% |
| SS and C Technologies | CT | 45.09 | 15.08 | 199% |
| Teradata | OH | 45.36 | 15.23 | 198% |
| KLA Tencor | CA | 63.47 | 21.33 | 198% |
| OmniVision Technologies | CA | 16.73 | 5.68 | 195% |
| Agilent Technologies | CA | 56.92 | 19.51 | 192% |
| Jabil Circuit | FL | 17.19 | 5.92 | 190% |
| Convergys | OH | 21.02 | 7.24 | 190% |
| Zebra Technologies | IL | 53.58 | 18.52 | 189% |
| Texas Instruments | TX | 43.29 | 15.02 | 188% |
| NETGEAR | CA | 32.52 | 11.41 | 185% |
| Thermo Fisher Scientific | MA | 110.05 | 38.90 | 183% |
| Adobe Systems | CA | 59.16 | 21.06 | 181% |
| j2 Global | CA | 49.67 | 17.76 | 180% |
| NetApp | CA | 40.33 | 14.92 | 170% |
| Fairchild Semiconductor | CA | 13.42 | 4.97 | 170% |
| Xilinx | CA | 45.62 | 16.93 | 169% |
| Citrix Systems | FL | 62.48 | 23.23 | 169% |
| Brocade Communications Systems | CA | 8.86 | 3.32 | 167% |
| Flextronics | CA | 7.71 | 2.91 | 165% |
| Tech Data | CA | 50.91 | 19.41 | 162% |
| Garmin Ltd | KS | 46.58 | 17.88 | 161% |
| IHS | CO | 116.56 | 45.38 | 157% |
| Microchip Technology | AZ | 44.54 | 17.71 | 151% |
| Analog Devices | MA | 49.61 | 19.83 | 150% |
| Synaptics | CA | 50.51 | 20.62 | 145% |
| Lam Research | CA | 53.94 | 22.17 | 143% |
| Teledyne Technologies | CA | 90.07 | 37.38 | 141% |
| Verisk Analytics | NJ | 65.13 | 27.22 | 139% |
| Maxim Integrated Products | CA | 28.73 | 12.26 | 134% |
| Take-Two Interactive Software | NY | 17.63 | 7.60 | 132% |
| Fortinet | CA | 19.27 | 8.31 | 132% |
| Atmel | CA | 7.93 | 3.47 | 129% |
| Amkor Technology | AZ | 6.12 | 2.70 | 127% |
| Ancestry.com | UT | 32.05 | 14.20 | 126% |
| Semtech | CA | 24.84 | 11.05 | 125% |
| Marvell Technology | CA | 14.16 | 6.31 | 124% |
| Oracle | CA | 37.62 | 16.91 | 122% |
| EMC | MA | 25.00 | 11.27 | 122% |
| Progress Software | MA | 25.79 | 11.70 | 120% |
| Hittite Microwave | MA | 61.84 | 28.07 | 120% |
| IBM | NY | 186.64 | 84.92 | 120% |
| Scansource | SC | 40.64 | 18.77 | 117% |
| United Online | CA | 13.40 | 6.19 | 116% |
| Cypress Semiconductor | CA | 10.42 | 4.83 | 116% |
| Synopsys | CA | 40.62 | 18.89 | 115% |
| Amdocs | MO | 41.17 | 19.22 | 114% |
| National Instruments | TX | 30.71 | 14.63 | 110% |
| GT Advanced Technologies | NH | 9.32 | 4.46 | 109% |
| Microsemi | CA | 24.99 | 12.02 | 108% |
| Geoeye | VA | 35.83 | 17.51 | 105% |
| Qualcomm | CA | 72.89 | 36.02 | 102% |
| Altera | CA | 32.17 | 16.07 | 100% |
| Nvidia | CA | 15.67 | 7.99 | 96% |
| Activision Blizzard | CA | 18.29 | 9.57 | 91% |
| Linear Technology | CA | 44.98 | 23.94 | 88% |
| Intel | CA | 25.78 | 13.74 | 88% |
| Microsoft | WA | 36.91 | 19.71 | 87% |
| Cubic | CA | 52.24 | 27.91 | 87% |
| International Rectifier | CA | 25.83 | 13.98 | 85% |
| CA | NY | 33.11 | 18.00 | 84% |
| ON Semiconductor | AZ | 8.05 | 4.40 | 83% |
| AOL | NY | 44.40 | 25.07 | 77% |
| Advanced Micro Devices | CA | 4.00 | 2.29 | 75% |
| Tessara Technologies | CA | 19.75 | 11.32 | 74% |
| Integrated Device Technology | CA | 9.98 | 5.73 | 74% |
| Ingram Micro | CA | 23.40 | 13.50 | 73% |
| Applied Materials | CA | 17.51 | 10.18 | 72% |
| Symantec | CA | 23.11 | 13.49 | 71% |
| Broadcom | CA | 28.97 | 17.13 | 69% |
| Compuware | MI | 11.16 | 6.91 | 62% |
| Polycom | CA | 11.56 | 7.17 | 61% |
| Xerox | CT | 11.99 | 7.69 | 56% |
| TTM Technologies | CA | 8.60 | 5.86 | 47% |
| Lexmark | KY | 35.42 | 25.45 | 39% |
| Cisco Systems | CA | 21.98 | 15.82 | 39% |
| Juniper Networks | CA | 22.77 | 16.39 | 39% |
| Dell | TX | 13.86 | 10.27 | 35% |
| PMC Sierra | CA | 6.31 | 4.77 | 32% |
| Electronic Arts | CA | 22.68 | 17.53 | 29% |
| Black Box | PA | 29.41 | 24.53 | 20% |
| Intersil | CA | 11.08 | 9.48 | 17% |
| Rambus | CA | 9.60 | 9.47 | 1% |
| Quality Systems | CA | 20.90 | 20.66 | 1% |
| FLIR Systems | OR | 29.02 | 29.40 | -1% |
| SunPower | CA | 32.73 | 33.62 | -3% |
| QLogic | CA | 11.89 | 12.48 | -5% |
| SunEdison | MO | 14.05 | 14.76 | -5% |
| Hewlett-Packard | CA | 28.34 | 34.77 | -18% |
| EarthLink | GA | 5.19 | 7.51 | -31% |
| First Solar | AZ | 56.74 | 145.42 | -61% |
| Average Increase: all 157 Technology Companies | 235% | |||
