Arkansas Company Average Stock Market Prices Up 449% Under Obama, a Democratic US Senate and a Quantitative Easing US Fed, After Being Down 38% During Financial Meltdown

I found 15 Arkansas Headquartered Companies in Yahoo's or Google's superb Finance websites or from SEC filings 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 May 16, 2014.

Excluded from the 15 was Windstream Holdings which went through a complicated Corporate Reorganization during 2013.

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

These 15 Arkansas Companies had their 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 more than five years since March 6, 2009, the average stock market prices of these same 15 Arkansas Companies have increased by a spectacular 449% through May 16, 2014, driven mainly by Dillard's stock market price increasing by a massive 34 times over this same period of time.

Wal-Mart's seemingly modest 57% stock market price growth in the most recent slightly more than 5 years is misleading since it was one of the few Companies whose common stock market price did not substantially decline with the 2008 financial meltdown.....in fact, its stock market price actually increased by 3% from December 31, 2007 to March 6, 2009.  And this 57% stock market price growth excludes cash dividends investors received. 

To illustrate the exceptional consistency of these Arkansas Companies, all 15 of them had stock market price increases in the most recent 5 plus years.

In similar fashion, from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, the US unemployment rate doubled from 5.0% in December 2007 to 10.0% in October 2009, early in President Obama's first term which was the very lowest point for the US Labor Market due to the lagging spillover effects resulting from the disastrous 2008 Financial Meltdown.

And then with the US economic stimulating actions of the Obama Administration, supported by both a Democratic controlled US Senate and US House (at the time), taking full effect, coupled with the Quantitative Easing by the US Fed, the US unemployment rate declined sharply from 10.0% in October 2009 to 6.3% in the most recently reported April 2014.

In like manner, Arkansas's unemployment rate increased from 5.1% in December 2007 to 7.7% in October 2009.  And then with the US economic stimulating actions of the Obama Administration, supported by both a Democratic controlled US Senate and US House (at the time), going full throttle, coupled with the Quantitative Easing by the US Fed, the Arkansas unemployment rate declined from 7.7% in October 2009 to 6.6% in the most recently reported April 2014.

Arkansas citizens should be extremely pleased with the outstanding performance of their Arkansas Companies during the Obama Administration.

Below here are the stock market prices of each of these 15 Arkansas Companies on May 16, 2014, on March 6, 2009, and on December 31, 2007, along with the related Stock Market Price Percentage Changes:

						Market	Market
						Price	Price
						%	%
						Change	Change
			Market	Market	Market	3-6-09	12-31-07
			Price	Price	Price	to	to
Arkansas Company	HQs		5-16-14	3-6-09	12-31-07	5-16-14	3-6-09
			$s	$s	$s
Dillard's	Little Rock	AR	111.00	3.19	18.78	3380%	-83%
P.A.M. Transportation Services	Tontitown	AR	23.87	2.97	15.54	704%	-81%
Bank of the Ozarks	Little Rock	AR	57.72	8.53	13.10	577%	-35%
Tyson Foods	Springdale	AR	40.90	7.98	15.33	413%	-48%
Home Bancshares	Conway	AR	30.33	6.82	8.83	345%	-23%
JB Hunt Transport Services	Lowell	AR	76.89	18.63	27.55	313%	-32%
America's Car-Market	Bentonville	AR	36.86	11.57	12.55	219%	-8%
Acxiom	Little Rock	AR	20.61	7.20	11.73	186%	-39%
ArcBest	Fort Smith	AR	40.40	17.19	21.94	135%	-22%
First Federal Bancshares Arkansas	Harrison	AR	8.40	3.86	14.10	118%	-73%
Deltic Timber	El Dorado	AR	60.56	28.78	51.49	110%	-44%
Simmons First National	Pine Bluff	AR	39.61	21.67	26.50	83%	-18%
Murphy Oil	El Dorado	AR	60.13	34.59	73.22	74%	-53%
Wal-Mart Stores	Bentonville	AR	77.01	48.91	47.53	57%	3%
USA Truck	Van Buren	AR	15.33	12.62	15.40	21%	-18%
Average % Change all 15						449%	-38%