Kentucky Company Average Stock Prices Up 285% Under Obama, Beshear and the US Fed, After Being Down 38% Due to Financial Meltdown

I found 17 Kentucky 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 21, 2014.

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

These 17 Kentucky Companies had their equally-company-weighted average stock market prices decline by a huge 38% 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 17 Kentucky Companies have increased by a robust 285% through February 21, 2014, led by Ashland's stock market price increasing by 15 times and Temper Sealy's by 10 times since March 6, 2009.

To illustrate their operating consistency, all 17 Kentucky Companies had their stock market prices increase since March 6, 2009 with the lowest increase being 32%.

Kentucky citizens should be pleased with the excellent performance of their Kentucky Companies during the Obama Administration.

Below here are the stock market prices of these 17 Kentucky Companies on February 21, 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
Kentucky Company	HQs		2-21-14	3-6-09	12-31-07	2-21-14	3-6-09
Ashland	Covington	KY	94.63	6.08	47.43	1456%	-87%
Tempur Sealy	Lexington	KY	49.64	4.46	25.97	1013%	-83%
Humana	Louisville	KY	102.82	19.54	75.31	426%	-74%
Papa Johns Intl	Louisville	KY	47.66	10.98	11.35	334%	-3%
Churchill Downs	Louisville	KY	93.21	23.63	53.97	294%	-56%
Texas Roadhouse	Louisville	KY	25.92	7.67	11.06	238%	-31%
Brown-Forman	Louisville	KY	80.61	26.90	29.94	200%	-10%
Yum! Brands	Louisville	KY	72.85	24.50	38.27	197%	-36%
Lexmark	Lexington	KY	42.32	15.65	34.86	170%	-55%
General Cable	Highland Heights	KY	31.08	13.65	73.28	128%	-81%
Almost Family	Louisville	KY	28.67	15.84	19.43	81%	-18%
PharMerica Corp	Louisville	KY	24.45	14.83	13.88	65%	7%
Community Trust Bancorp	Pikeville	KY	38.52	23.97	27.53	61%	-13%
Republic Bancorp	Louisville	KY	23.92	14.89	16.53	61%	-10%
Farmers Capital Bank	Frankfort	KY	18.80	12.76	27.00	47%	-53%
SY Bancorp	Louisville	KY	28.78	20.12	23.94	43%	-16%
Kindred Healthcare	Louisville	KY	19.75	15.01	22.56	32%	-33%
Average % Change all 17						285%	-38%