Iowa Company Average Stock Prices Up 490% Under Obama, Harkin and the US Fed, After Being Down 60% Due to Financial Meltdown

I found 17 Iowa 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 the most recent date February 24, 2014.

I also included below 1 Iowa Company which was sold in April 2013.  That makes 18 Iowa Companies.

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

These 18 Iowa Companies had their equally-company-weighted average stock market prices decline 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 in the slightly less than five years since March 6, 2009, the equally-company-weighted average stock market prices of these same 18 Iowa Companies have increased by a very impressive 490%, driven by 3 Iowa Companies with stock market price increase above 10 times.....Lee Enterprises (up 16 times), FBL Financial Group (up 15 times) and Sauer-Danfoss (up 13 times).

To illustrate the operational consistency of these 18 Iowa Companies, all 18 of them had stock market price increases since March 6, 2009, with the lowest increase being a respectable 42%.

Iowa citizens should be extremely pleased with the outstanding performance of their Iowa Companies during the Obama Administration.

Below here are the stock market prices of these 18 Iowa Companies on February 24, 2014, on March 6, 2009, and on December 31, 2007:

						Market	Market
						Price	Price
						%	%
						Change	Change
			Market	Market	Market	3-6-09	12-31-07
			Price	Price	Price	to	to
Iowa Company	HQs		2-24-14	3-6-09	12-31-07	2-24-14	3-6-09
Lee Enterprises	Davenport	IA	4.85	0.29	14.65	1572%	-98%
FBL Financial Group	West Des Moines	IA	40.65	2.55	34.53	1494%	-93%
Sauer-Danfoss	Ames	IA	58.49	4.31	25.05	1257%	-83%
Winnebago Industries	Forest City	IA	26.10	3.23	21.02	708%	-85%
Principal Financial Group	Des Moines	IA	44.88	6.08	68.84	638%	-91%
Flexsteel	Dubuque	IA	37.16	5.17	12.00	619%	-57%
American Equity Investment Life	West Des Moines	IA	21.65	3.19	8.29	579%	-62%
HNI Corp	Muscatine	IA	34.62	8.16	35.06	324%	-77%
Meredith Corp	Des Moines	IA	44.96	11.28	54.98	299%	-79%
MidWest One Financial Group	Iowa City	IA	26.20	7.00	16.99	274%	-59%
Casey's General Stores	Ankeny	IA	66.76	18.81	29.61	255%	-36%
Heartland Financial USA	Dubuque	IA	26.48	8.84	18.57	200%	-52%
Rockwell Collins	Cedar Rapids	IA	82.82	28.35	71.97	192%	-61%
West Bancorporation	West Des Moines	IA	14.74	5.64	13.04	161%	-57%
Heartland Express	North Liberty	IA	20.60	12.19	14.18	69%	-14%
United Fire Group	Cedar Rapids	IA	29.57	17.54	29.09	69%	-40%
EMC Insurance Group	Des Moines	IA	30.58	19.03	23.67	61%	-20%
Ames National Corp	Ames	IA	22.29	15.71	19.50	42%	-19%
Average % Change all 18						490%	-60%