- 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 19, 2014.
I also included Flow Intl below since it was sold very recently. And I included Clearwater Paper since it first started trading in 2008. In addition, I also included Boeing below since its operations in Washington are so substantial. That makes it 46 Washington 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 Washington 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 46 Washington Companies have increased by a very impressive 394% through February 19, 2014.
There were 5 Washington Companies of the 46 which had their stock market prices increase by more than 10 times since March 6, 2009. Three of the five I would consider Technology Companies.
Only 2 of the 46 Washington Companies had stock market price declines since March 6, 2009.
When the extremely well run Starbucks is only #7 and the similarly very well run Costco is only #29 on this stock market price appreciation list, then you have an incredibly very well run list of Washington Companies.
Washington citizens must be extremely pleased with the outstanding performance of these Washington Companies during the Obama Administration.
Below here are the stock market prices of these 46 Washington Companies on February 19, 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 | |||
| Washington State Company | HQs | 2-19-14 | 3-6-09 | 12-31-07 | 2-19-14 | 3-6-09 | |
| Clearwater Paper | Spokane | WA | 66.52 | 3.25 | 11.25 | 1947% | -71% |
| Nautilis Inc | Vancouver | WA | 8.32 | 0.50 | 4.85 | 1564% | -90% |
| Cray Inc | Seattle | WA | 37.09 | 2.43 | 5.99 | 1426% | -59% |
| Expedia | Bellevue | WA | 79.62 | 6.08 | 29.74 | 1209% | -80% |
| Key Tronic | Spokane Valley | WA | 10.13 | 0.90 | 4.18 | 1026% | -78% |
| Alaska Air Group | Seattle | WA | 78.34 | 7.54 | 12.51 | 939% | -40% |
| Starbucks | Seattle | WA | 73.32 | 8.36 | 20.47 | 777% | -59% |
| Barrett Business Services | Vancouver | WA | 65.46 | 8.14 | 18.01 | 704% | -55% |
| Seattle Genetics | Bothell | WA | 51.47 | 7.23 | 11.40 | 612% | -37% |
| Concur Technologies | Bellevue | WA | 126.66 | 18.52 | 36.21 | 584% | -49% |
| F5 Networks | Seattle | WA | 109.65 | 18.75 | 28.52 | 485% | -34% |
| Amazon | Seattle | WA | 347.38 | 61.69 | 92.64 | 463% | -33% |
| Esterline Technologies | Bellevue | WA | 105.59 | 20.89 | 51.75 | 405% | -60% |
| Nordstrom | Seattle | WA | 58.88 | 12.16 | 36.73 | 384% | -67% |
| Columbia Banking System | Tacoma | WA | 24.94 | 5.55 | 29.73 | 349% | -81% |
| Weyerhauser | Federal Way | WA | 30.35 | 6.99 | 26.62 | 334% | -74% |
| Boeing | Chicago | IL | 128.39 | 30.10 | 87.46 | 327% | -66% |
| Emeritus Corp | Seattle | WA | 21.50 | 5.10 | 25.15 | 322% | -80% |
| TrueBlue | Tacoma | WA | 25.74 | 6.17 | 14.48 | 317% | -57% |
| Blucora | Bellevue | WA | 21.40 | 5.28 | 18.80 | 305% | -72% |
| Pope Resources | Poulsbo | WA | 66.57 | 16.45 | 42.75 | 305% | -62% |
| Flow Intl | Kent | WA | 4.04 | 1.08 | 9.32 | 274% | -88% |
| Pendrell | Kirkland | WA | 1.39 | 0.39 | 3.18 | 257% | -88% |
| RealNetworks | Seattle | WA | 7.05 | 2.02 | 6.09 | 249% | -67% |
| Zumiez | Lynnwood | WA | 22.29 | 6.43 | 24.36 | 247% | -74% |
| Oncothyreon | Seattle | WA | 2.90 | 0.90 | 2.23 | 222% | -60% |
| Marchex Inc | Seattle | WA | 9.59 | 3.15 | 17.30 | 204% | -82% |
| OncoGenex Pharmaceuticals | Bothell | WA | 11.70 | 3.90 | 7.92 | 200% | -51% |
| Costco | Issaquah | WA | 114.91 | 38.98 | 69.76 | 195% | -44% |
| PACCAR | Bellevue | WA | 61.81 | 21.07 | 54.48 | 193% | -61% |
| Outerwall Inc | Bellevue | WA | 71.58 | 25.39 | 28.15 | 182% | -10% |
| Washington Banking | Oak Harbor | WA | 17.60 | 6.40 | 15.79 | 175% | -59% |
| Banner Corp | Walla Walla | WA | 37.20 | 13.86 | 201.11 | 168% | -93% |
| Microsoft | Redmond | WA | 37.51 | 15.28 | 35.60 | 145% | -57% |
| T-Mobile US | Bellevue | WA | 31.25 | 14.36 | 19.45 | 118% | -26% |
| Washington Federal | Seattle | WA | 21.53 | 10.04 | 21.11 | 114% | -52% |
| Cell Therapeutics | Seattle | WA | 3.21 | 1.70 | 564.00 | 89% | -100% |
| Plum Creek Timber | Seattle | WA | 42.67 | 24.02 | 46.04 | 78% | -48% |
| Heritage Financial | Olympia | WA | 16.92 | 9.59 | 19.90 | 76% | -52% |
| Expeditors Intl Washington | Seattle | WA | 41.15 | 24.60 | 44.68 | 67% | -45% |
| Blue Nile | Seattle | WA | 34.49 | 21.54 | 68.06 | 60% | -68% |
| Northwest Pipe | Vancouver | WA | 35.71 | 24.21 | 39.14 | 48% | -38% |
| First Financial Northwest | Renton | WA | 10.31 | 7.11 | 9.84 | 45% | -28% |
| Dendreon | Seattle | WA | 2.99 | 2.61 | 6.22 | 15% | -58% |
| Itron | Liberty Lake | WA | 35.29 | 41.91 | 51.84 | -16% | -19% |
| Sterling Financial | Spokane | WA | 29.74 | 74.58 | 1,108.14 | -60% | -93% |
| Average % Change all 46 | 394% | -60% |
