Oregon Company Average Stock Prices Up 564% Under Obama, Merkley, Wyden and the US Fed, After Being Down 62% Due to Financial Meltdown

I found 20 Oregon 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 20, 2014.

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

These 20 Oregon Headquartered Companies had their equally-company-weighted average stock market prices decline by a massive 62% 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 20 Oregon Headquartered Companies have increased by a spectacular 564% through February 20, 2014.

3 of these 20 Oregon Companies had stock market price increases of more than 15 times since March 6, 2009, led by Lithia Motors (up 30 times).

When the exceptionally well run Nike is only #11 on this stock market growth list of these 20 Oregon Companies, then you know you have a very stellar list of Oregon Companies. 

Oregon is very fortunate to have two equally outstanding US Senators.....Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley.  They both work very hard and also very effectively for all Oregon businesses of all sizes.

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

Below here are the stock market prices of these 20 Oregon Companies on February 20, 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
Oregon Company	HQs		2-20-14	3-6-09	12-31-07	2-20-14	3-6-09
Lithia Motors	Medford	OR	61.33	1.98	13.73	2997%	-86%
The Greenbrier Companies	Lake Oswego	OR	39.34	1.93	22.26	1938%	-91%
Craft Brew Alliance	Portland	OR	15.84	0.95	6.65	1567%	-86%
FEI Company	Hillsboro	OR	101.70	11.82	24.83	760%	-52%
Rentrak Corp	Portland	OR	66.95	9.49	14.46	605%	-34%
Lattice Semiconductor	Hillsboro	OR	7.85	1.13	3.25	595%	-65%
Mentor Graphics	Wilsonville	OR	20.59	3.44	10.78	499%	-68%
Precision Castparts	Portland	OR	258.47	49.05	138.70	427%	-65%
TriQuint Semiconductor	Hillsboro	OR	9.31	2.05	6.63	354%	-69%
StanCorp Financial Group	Portland	OR	65.83	14.73	50.38	347%	-71%
Nike	Beaverton	OR	75.58	19.97	32.12	278%	-38%
Columbia Sportswear	Portland	OR	84.76	25.73	44.09	229%	-42%
Cascade Microtech	Beaverton	OR	8.94	2.75	10.19	225%	-73%
Blount Intl	Portland	OR	12.53	4.72	12.31	165%	-62%
Umpqua Holdings	Portland	OR	16.70	6.91	15.34	142%	-55%
Electro Scientific Industries	Portland	OR	9.28	5.11	19.85	82%	-74%
FLIR Systems	Wilsonville	OR	32.15	19.59	31.30	64%	-37%
Pacific Continental	Eugene	OR	14.22	10.44	12.52	36%	-17%
Schnitzer Steel Industries	Portland	OR	25.76	25.57	69.13	1%	-63%
Cascade Bancorp	Bend	OR	4.82	8.40	139.20	-43%	-94%
Average % Change all 20						564%	-62%