Monday, February 24, 2014

Maryland Company Average Stock Prices Up 534% Under Obama, Van Hollen, Mikulski, Cordin, O'Malley and the US Fed, After Being Down 48% Due to Financial Meltdown

I found 43 Maryland 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.
I also included the 2 Maryland Companies which were sold recently and 1 Maryland Company which first started trading in May 2008.  That makes 46 Maryland Companies.

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

These 46 Maryland Companies had their equally-company-weighted average stock market prices decline by a huge 48% 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 46 Maryland Companies have increased by a very impressive 534% through February 21, 2014.

There were 7 Maryland Companies with stock price increases since March 6, 2009 of more than 10 times, led by American Capital (up 35 times), Sinclair Broadcast Group (up 25 times), WR Grace (up 23 times) and Under Armour (up 17 times).

To show the consistency of these Maryland Companies, only 3 of the 46 had a stock market price decline since March 6, 2009.

Maryland citizens must be extremely pleased with the outstanding performance of these Maryland Companies during the Obama Administration.

Below here are the stock market prices of these 46 Maryland 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
Maryland Company HQs
2-21-14 3-6-09 12-31-07 2-21-14 3-6-09








American Capital Bethesda MD          15.76          0.44          24.66 3501% -98%
Sinclair Broadcast Group Hunt Valley MD          29.69          1.13            8.21 2527% -86%
WR Grace Columbia MD          99.47          4.18          26.18 2280% -84%
Under Armour Baltimore MD        112.68          6.17          21.84 1728% -72%
CapitalSource Chevy Chase MD          13.67          1.01          17.59 1253% -94%
Radio One Inc Silver Spring MD            5.18          0.41            2.37 1163% -83%
Colfax Fulton MD          69.76          6.01          21.00 1061% -71%
Novavax Rockville MD            5.76          0.56            3.33 929% -83%
GP Strategies Elkridge MD          27.57          2.74          10.65 906% -74%
TESSCO Technologies Hunt Valley MD          36.75          4.03          12.05 811% -67%
LaSalle Hotel Properties Bethesda MD          30.23          3.91          31.90 673% -88%
Eagle Bancorp Bethesda MD          33.25          4.91          10.00 577% -51%
Coventry Health Care Bethesda MD          49.99          8.36          59.25 498% -86%
Medifast Owing Mills MD          26.73          4.52            4.85 491% -7%
Host Hotels & Resorts Bethesda MD          19.54          3.54          17.04 452% -79%
Discovery Communications Silver Spring MD          82.81        15.12          23.12 448% -35%
Chindex Intl Bethesda MD          19.25          3.64          23.02 429% -84%
Marriott Intl Bethesda MD          52.51        11.90          32.21 341% -63%
Ciena Corp Hanover MD          25.50          6.11          34.11 317% -82%
Diamondrock Hospitality Bethesda MD          12.41          3.00          14.98 314% -80%
Neuralstem Rockville MD            3.52          0.86            3.73 309% -77%
Jos A Bank Clothiers Hampstead MD          55.05        13.51          18.97 308% -29%
Legg Mason Baltimore MD          44.03        11.14          73.15 295% -85%
Nielsen Audio Columbia MD          48.00        12.56          41.57 282% -70%
T Rowe Price Group Baltimore MD          80.00        21.07          60.88 280% -65%
Old Line Bancshares Bowie MD          17.23          4.60            8.05 275% -43%
MICROS Systems Columbia MD          55.17        15.03          35.08 267% -57%
United Therapeutics Silver Spring MD        103.34        31.48          48.83 228% -36%
Sandy Spring Bancorp Olney MD          23.33          7.16          27.82 226% -74%
Federal Realty Investment Trust Rockville MD        111.57        39.90          82.15 180% -51%
Lockheed Martin Bethesda MD        164.33        58.85        105.26 179% -44%
Omega Healthcare Investors Hunt Valley MD          31.42        11.89          16.05 164% -26%
Argan Rockville MD          28.20        12.01          13.35 135% -10%
Saul Centers Bethesda MD          46.73        20.44          53.43 129% -62%
McCormick & Co Sparks MD          65.97        30.32          37.91 118% -20%
Rexahn Pharmaceuticals Rockville MD            1.08          0.51            2.25 112% -77%
Choice Hotels Intl Rockville MD          48.08        23.49          33.20 105% -29%
First Potomac Realty Trust Bethesda MD          12.72          6.46          17.29 97% -63%
Sucampo Pharmaceuticals Bethesda MD            8.52          4.38          18.34 95% -76%
Washington REIT Rockville MD          23.74        15.60          31.41 52% -50%
Synutra Intl Rockville MD            7.90          5.32          30.20 48% -82%
Emergent BioSolutions Rockville MD          25.55        19.91            5.06 28% 293%
Corporate Office Properties Trust Columbia MD          27.08        21.72          31.50 25% -31%
Vocus Beltsville MD          12.92        13.17          34.53 -2% -62%
Osiris Therapeutics Columbia MD          16.81        18.01          12.02 -7% 50%
TeleCommunication Systems Annapolis MD            2.20          8.04            3.56 -73% 126%








Average % Change all 46




534% -48%