Arizona Company Average Stock Prices Up 324% Under Obama, McCain, Brewer and the US Fed, After Being Down 44% Due to Financial Meltdown

I found 27 Arizona Headquartered Companies in Yahoo's superb Finance website with current Total Market Capitalizations of at least $100 mil and which also had their common stocks trading on each of the following three dates:

• On December 31, 2007 during President Bush's second term
• On March 6, 2009, very early in President Obama's first term, which was the lowest point for the US stock market due to the spillover effects resulting from the 2008 financial meltdown, and 
• also on yesterday February 26, 2014

I also included below the 2 Arizona Companies which were sold since December 2012.  And I also included below 1 Arizona Company which had its common stock first start trading in the November 2008.  That makes 30 Arizona Companies.

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

These 30 Arizona Companies had their equally-company-weighted average stock market prices decline by a huge 44% 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 in the slightly less than five years since March 6, 2009, the equally-company-weighted average stock market prices of these same 30 Arizona Companies have increased by a robust 324% through yesterday February 26, 2014.

As you can see from the chart below, there were 5, or 17%, of Arizona's 30 Companies which had their stock market prices increase by more than 9 times in the most recent just short of 5 years.

Arizona citizens should be very pleased with the strong performance of nearly all of their Arizona Companies during the Obama Administration.

I think more than anyone in office, this strong operating performance of these Arizona Companies is on US Senator John McCain, who really knows how to effectively get things done for Arizona businesses of all sizes, and to do it with a great sense of humor.

Below here are the stock market prices of these 30 Arizona Companies on February 26, 2014, on March 6, 2009, and on December 31, 2007, along with the related % Changes for these two periods of time:

Market Market Price Price % % Change Change Market Market Market 3-6-09 12-31-07 Price Price Price to to Arizona Company HQs 2-26-14 3-6-09 12-31-07 2-26-14 3-6-09 Providence Service Tucson AZ       26.96         2.41       28.14 1019% -91% Insight Enterprises Tempe AZ       22.87         2.10       18.24 989% -88% Accelerate Diagnostics Tucson AZ       15.10         1.41         4.63 971% -70% Kona Grill Scottsdale AZ       18.75         1.79       14.60 947% -88% Inventure Foods Phoenix AZ       12.67         1.23         2.23 930% -45% Meritage Homes Scottsdale AZ       49.33         8.83       14.57 459% -39% Western Alliance Banc Phoenix AZ       23.15         4.32       18.77 436% -77% TASER Intl Scottsdale AZ       18.93         3.65       14.39 419% -75% Mobile Mini Tempe AZ       42.83         8.46       18.54 406% -54% JDA Software Scottsdale AZ       45.00         9.75       20.46 362% -52% Medicis Pharmaceutical Scottsdale AZ       44.00       10.26       25.97 329% -60% Cavco Industries Phoenix AZ       78.44       20.02       33.84 292% -41% PetSmart Phoenix AZ       65.97       16.85       23.53 292% -28% Amtech Systems Tempe AZ       10.05         2.73       12.99 268% -79% Grand Canyon Education Phoenix AZ       47.48       12.99       11.85 266% 10% Amkor Technology Chandler AZ         5.79         1.78         8.53 225% -79% PS Business Parks Glendale AZ       82.98       30.21       52.55 175% -43% ON Semiconductor Phoenix AZ         9.44         3.46         8.88 173% -61% Avnet Phoenix AZ       42.95       16.12       34.97 166% -54% Microchip Technology Chandler AZ       45.53       18.24       32.70 150% -44% Southern Copper Corp Phoenix AZ       30.57       14.67       35.04 108% -58% Republic Services Phoenix AZ       33.57       16.47       31.35 104% -47% Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Phoenix AZ       33.41       16.94       51.22 97% -67% Viad Corp Phoenix AZ       24.22       12.63       31.58 92% -60% Knight Transportation Phoenix AZ       21.75       12.45       14.81 75% -16% Universal Technical Institute Scottsdale AZ       13.68         9.16       17.00 49% -46% AV Homes Scottsdale AZ       19.10       15.00       41.82 27% -64% Limelight Networks Tempe AZ         2.19         2.53         6.89 -13% -63% Apollo Education Group Phoenix AZ       33.96       64.69       70.15 -48% -8% First Solar Tempe AZ       52.74      108.49       29.84 -51% 264% Average % Change all 30 324% -44%