The historical stock prices of these companies were obtained from the following two excellent internet resources.... Google Finance and MarketWatch Big Charts. The superb Yahoo Finance website was also utilized heavily.
These 22 Illinois Companies had their average stock market price increase by a very impressive 57% over a short 28 month average period of time that their common stocks traded through the most recent date March 12, 2014.
Three Illinois Companies filing IPOs during the Obama Administration had their stock market prices more than triple: Envestnet, a Technology Company serving the Financial Services Industry, up 320%; Obamacare beneficiary Addus HomeCare, up 243%; and Bristol Myers spinoff Mead Johnson Nutrition, with its Top Executive HQs in Glenview and with Operational HQs in Evansville, IN, up 216%.
Coming in fourth was the exceptionally well run Hyatt Hotels, posting a stock market price increase of a very robust 88%.
Below here are the stock market prices on the most recent date March 12, 2014 or the date the Company was sold and also at the close on the first day of the IPO, as well as the related % Market Price Change for this period of time, for these 22 Illinois Companies:
| 1st Day | |||||||
| 3-12-14 | IPO | % | |||||
| Stock | Closing | Market | |||||
| IPO | City | Market | Market | Price | |||
| Date | Company | HQs | Sector | Industry | Price | Price | Change |
| Illinois IPOs During Obama | |||||||
| 7/29/10 | Envestnet | Chicago | Technology | Financial Services | $42.92 | $10.23 | 320% |
| 10/28/09 | Addus HomeCare | Palatine | Healthcare | Home Health Care | $29.16 | $8.49 | 243% |
| 2/10/09 | Mead Johnson Nutrition | Glenview | Consumer Goods | Processed & Packaged Goods | $83.53 | $26.43 | 216% |
| 11/5/09 | Hyatt Hotels | Chicago | Services | Lodging | $52.68 | $28.00 | 88% |
| 6/15/10 | CBOE Holdings | Chicago | Financial | Diversified Investmrnts | $56.64 | $32.49 | 74% |
| 1/18/13 | SunCoke Energy Partners, L.P. | Lisle | Basic Materials | Nonmetallic Mineral Mining | $29.80 | $18.25 | 63% |
| 7/19/12 | Durata Therapeutics | Chicago | Healthcare | Biotechnology | $14.64 | $9.04 | 62% |
| 4/5/12 | Retail Properties of America | Oak Brook | Financial | REIT-Retail | $13.84 | $8.75 | 58% |
| 6/21/13 | Gogo | Itasca | Technology | Diversified Communication Services | $23.88 | $16.00 | 49% |
| 7/28/11 | Horizon Pharma | Deerfield | Healthcare | Major Drug Manufacturers | $13.62 | $9.15 | 49% |
| 6/27/13 | CDW Corp | Vernon Hills | Technology | Information Technology Services | $25.39 | $18.37 | 38% |
| 6/7/13 | Textura | Deerfield | Technology | Application Software | $27.18 | $20.94 | 30% |
| 7/21/11 | SunCoke Energy | Lisle | Basic Materials | Steel & Iron | $21.68 | $17.00 | 28% |
| 10/2/09 | Echo Global Logitcs | Chicago | Services | Trucking | $17.39 | $14.06 | 24% |
| 5/23/13 | Global Brass and Copper Holdings | Schaumburg | Industrial Goods | Metal Fabrication | $16.37 | $13.55 | 21% |
| 10/30/13 | Surgical Care Affiliates | Deerfield | Health Care | Skilled Health Services | $31.09 | $27.10 | 15% |
| 4/20/11 | Sagent Pharmaceuticals | Schaumburg | Healthcare | Drugs-Generic | $22.28 | $19.90 | 12% |
| 3/21/13 | Aviv REIT | Chicago | Financial | REIT-Diversified | $25.13 | $22.55 | 11% |
| 4/26/12 | Ares Commercial Real Estate | Chicago | Financial | REIT-Diversified | $13.48 | $18.00 | -25% |
| 10/3/13 | Potbelly Corporation | Chicago | Services | Special Eateries | $20.77 | $30.44 | -32% |
| 5/20/10 | Accretive Health | Chicago | Healthcare | Management Services | $8.53 | $12.74 | -33% |
| 11/4/11 | Groupon | Chicago | Technology | Internet Information Providers | $8.60 | $26.11 | -67% |
| Average % Change all 22 | 57% | ||||||
| Average Number of Months 22 Stocks Traded | 28 | ||||||
