- 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 14, 2014.
The historical stock prices of these companies were obtained from the following two excellent internet resources.... Google Finance and MarketWatch Big Charts.
These 62 Minnesota Companies had their average stock market prices decline by a huge 51% 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 62 Minnesota Companies have increased by a spectacular 464% through May 14, 2014, led by Select Comfort's stock market price increasing by a massive 91 times in the most recent roughly 5 years.
Seven of these 62 Minnesota Companies..... Select Comfort, Polaris Industries, Arctic Cat, Famous Dave's of America, ValueVision Media, Clearfield and Stratasys Ltd.... had their stock market prices increase by more than 10 times in the most recent roughly 5 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, Minnesota's unemployment rate increased sharply, going from 4.8% in December 2007 to 7.8% 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 Minnesota State unemployment rate declined sharply, going from 7.8% in October 2009 to 4.7% in the most recently reported April 2014.
Below here are the stock market prices of each of these 62 Minnesota Companies on May 14, 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 | |||
| Minnesota Company | HQs | 5-14-14 | 3-6-09 | 12-31-07 | 5-14-14 | 3-6-09 | |
| $s | $s | $s | |||||
| Select Comfort | Minneapolis | MN | 18.50 | 0.20 | 7.01 | 9145% | -97% |
| Polaris Industries | Medina | MN | 131.57 | 7.59 | 23.89 | 1635% | -68% |
| Arctic Cat | Plymouth | MN | 38.91 | 2.43 | 11.94 | 1501% | -80% |
| Famous Dave's of America | Minnetonka | MN | 29.54 | 2.00 | 13.56 | 1377% | -85% |
| ValueVision Media | Eden Prairie | MN | 4.78 | 0.35 | 6.29 | 1266% | -94% |
| Clearfield | Plymouth | MN | 15.20 | 1.12 | 1.01 | 1257% | 11% |
| Stratasys Ltd | Eden Prairie | MN | 90.31 | 8.18 | 25.84 | 1004% | -68% |
| Deluxe Corp | Shoreview | MN | 54.72 | 6.47 | 32.89 | 746% | -80% |
| Ameriprise Financial | Minneapolis | MN | 110.47 | 14.20 | 55.11 | 678% | -74% |
| Tennant Co | Minneapolis | MN | 63.98 | 8.23 | 44.29 | 677% | -81% |
| Winmark | Minneapolis | MN | 68.85 | 9.02 | 21.00 | 663% | -57% |
| Northern Oil and Gas | Wayzata | MN | 15.01 | 2.22 | 6.95 | 576% | -68% |
| Life Time Fitness | Chanhassen | MN | 48.43 | 7.50 | 49.68 | 546% | -85% |
| Toro | Bloomington | MN | 62.13 | 10.57 | 27.22 | 488% | -61% |
| Graco | Minneapolis | MN | 72.28 | 14.48 | 37.26 | 399% | -61% |
| BioScrip | Minnetonka | MN | 7.22 | 1.48 | 7.73 | 388% | -81% |
| Valspar | Minneapolis | MN | 73.53 | 15.76 | 22.54 | 367% | -30% |
| Buffalo Wild Wings | Minneapolis | MN | 140.00 | 30.05 | 23.22 | 366% | 29% |
| HB Fuller | St Paul | MN | 47.57 | 10.29 | 22.45 | 362% | -54% |
| US Bancorp | Minneapolis | MN | 40.36 | 8.82 | 31.74 | 358% | -72% |
| UnitedHealth Group | Minnetonka | MN | 77.17 | 17.90 | 58.20 | 331% | -69% |
| Pentair Ltd | Minneapolis | MN | 75.22 | 17.95 | 34.81 | 319% | -48% |
| Vascular Solutions | Minneapolis | MN | 20.46 | 5.40 | 6.50 | 279% | -17% |
| Donaldson Co | Minneapolis | MN | 42.26 | 11.31 | 23.19 | 274% | -51% |
| Fastenal | Winona | MN | 48.13 | 13.19 | 20.21 | 265% | -35% |
| Ecolab | St Paul | MN | 106.20 | 29.90 | 51.21 | 255% | -42% |
| G&K Services Inc | Minnetonka | MN | 55.42 | 15.77 | 37.52 | 251% | -58% |
| Datalink | Eden Prairie | MN | 8.87 | 2.61 | 3.69 | 240% | -29% |
| 3M | St Paul | MN | 141.60 | 41.83 | 84.32 | 239% | -50% |
| Apogee Enterprises | Minneapolis | MN | 29.16 | 8.89 | 17.11 | 228% | -48% |
| Hormel Foods | Austin | MN | 48.80 | 15.18 | 20.24 | 221% | -25% |
| Cardiovascular Systems | St Paul | MN | 27.32 | 8.51 | 31.00 | 221% | -73% |
| MTS Systems | Eden Prairie | MN | 67.90 | 21.67 | 38.62 | 213% | -44% |
| Hawkins Inc | Roseville | MN | 34.25 | 12.95 | 15.00 | 164% | -14% |
| Lakes Entertainment | Minnetonka | MN | 4.76 | 1.90 | 6.62 | 151% | -71% |
| Patterson | St Paul | MN | 41.20 | 16.55 | 33.95 | 149% | -51% |
| Medtronic | Minneapolis | MN | 60.65 | 24.92 | 50.27 | 143% | -50% |
| Enventis | Mankato | MN | 12.15 | 5.10 | 9.32 | 138% | -45% |
| Target | Minneapolis | MN | 59.27 | 25.65 | 50.00 | 131% | -49% |
| Piper Jaffray | Minneapolis | MN | 43.53 | 19.30 | 46.32 | 126% | -58% |
| General Mills | Minneapolis | MN | 54.10 | 25.48 | 28.50 | 112% | -11% |
| St Jude Medical | Saint Paul | MN | 64.19 | 32.37 | 40.64 | 98% | -20% |
| Techne | Minneapolis | MN | 90.36 | 46.98 | 66.05 | 92% | -29% |
| Polymet Mining | Hoyt Lakes | MN | 1.21 | 0.65 | 3.24 | 86% | -80% |
| NVE Corp | Eden Prairie | MN | 52.55 | 28.98 | 24.60 | 81% | 18% |
| Christopher & Banks | Plymouth | MN | 6.17 | 3.51 | 11.45 | 76% | -69% |
| TCF Financial | Wayzata | MN | 15.46 | 9.00 | 17.93 | 72% | -50% |
| OneBeacon Group Ltd | Minnetonka | MN | 15.31 | 9.00 | 21.50 | 70% | -58% |
| CH Robinson Worldwide | Eden Prairie | MN | 58.75 | 38.06 | 54.12 | 54% | -30% |
| Mosaic | Plymouth | MN | 50.00 | 39.16 | 94.34 | 28% | -58% |
| Digi International | Minnetonka | MN | 8.23 | 6.78 | 14.19 | 21% | -52% |
| SurModics | Eden Prairie | MN | 20.30 | 16.87 | 54.27 | 20% | -69% |
| Regis Corp | Minneapolis | MN | 13.45 | 11.20 | 27.96 | 20% | -60% |
| Capella Education | Minneapolis | MN | 55.82 | 46.74 | 65.46 | 19% | -29% |
| Two Harbors Investment | Minnetonka | MN | 10.21 | 8.77 | 8.38 | 16% | 5% |
| Qumu Corp | Minneapolis | MN | 13.86 | 12.11 | 25.95 | 14% | -53% |
| Best Buy | Richfield | MN | 26.02 | 24.71 | 52.65 | 5% | -53% |
| ANI Pharmaceutics | Baudette | MN | 29.89 | 46.44 | 136.08 | -36% | -66% |
| Digital River | Minnetonka | MN | 15.54 | 25.53 | 33.07 | -39% | -23% |
| Imation | Oakdale | MN | 3.70 | 7.08 | 21.00 | -48% | -66% |
| SUPERVALU | Eden Prairie | MN | 7.25 | 14.36 | 37.52 | -50% | -62% |
| EnteroMedics | St Paul | MN | 1.83 | 7.80 | 48.30 | -77% | -84% |
| Average % Change all 62 | 464% | -51% |
