Missouri Company Average Stock Market Prices Up 265% Under Obama, a Democratic US Senate and a Quantitative Easing US Fed, After Being Down 48% During Financial Meltdown

I found 41 Missouri 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 14, 2014.

I also included one Missouri Company which was sold in 2014.  That makes it 42 Missouri Companies.

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

These 42 Missouri Companies had their average stock market prices decline by a huge 48% 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 42 Missouri Companies have increased by a robust 265% through May 14, 2014, led mainly by Huttig Building Products' stock market price increase of 16.6 times and Brown Shoe's stock market price increase of 10 times, both in the most recent roughly 5 years.

Only 2 of the 42 Missouri Companies had price declines in the most recent roughly 5 years..... both were Coal Companies.

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, Missouri's unemployment rate increased sharply, going from 5.3% in December 2007 to 9.6% 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 Missouri State unemployment rate declined markedly, going from 9.6% in October 2009 to 6.6% in the most recently reported April 2014.

Below here are the stock market prices of each of these 42 Missouri 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
Missouri Company	HQs		5-14-14	3-6-09	12-31-07	5-14-14	3-6-09
			$s	$s	$s
Huttig Building Products	St Louis	MO	4.40	0.25	3.49	1660%	-93%
Brown Shoe Co	St Louis	MO	25.07	2.27	15.17	1004%	-85%
American Railcar Industries	St Charles	MO	61.08	6.83	19.25	794%	-65%
Belden	St Louis	MO	68.85	8.49	44.50	711%	-81%
Kansas City Southern	Kansas City	MO	100.80	13.53	34.33	645%	-61%
Cerner	North Kansas City	MO	50.64	9.18	14.10	452%	-35%
O'Reilly Automotive	Springfield	MO	147.77	32.14	32.43	360%	-1%
Centene	St Louis	MO	69.81	15.50	27.44	350%	-44%
Perficient	St Louis	MO	16.90	3.81	15.74	344%	-76%
EPR Properties	Kansas City	MO	53.64	12.79	47.00	319%	-73%
Jack Henry & Associates	Monett	MO	57.07	14.80	24.34	286%	-39%
Southern Missouri Bancorp	Poplar Bluff	MO	35.33	9.50	13.99	272%	-32%
Build-A-Bear	St Louis	MO	13.64	3.76	4.12	263%	-9%
Panera Bread	St Louis	MO	153.17	44.18	35.82	247%	23%
Reinsurance Group America	Chesterfield	MO	77.27	22.40	52.48	245%	-57%
DST Systems	Kansas City	MO	90.22	26.80	82.55	237%	-68%
Leggett & Platt	Carthage	MO	33.23	10.31	17.44	222%	-41%
Sigma-Aldrich	St Louis	MO	96.96	32.67	54.60	197%	-40%
Olin Corp	Clayton	MO	27.51	9.28	19.33	196%	-52%
Express Scripts	St Louis	MO	68.41	23.10	36.50	196%	-37%
Energizer Holdings	St Louis	MO	113.90	38.56	112.13	195%	-66%
Amdocs Limited	Chesterfield	MO	47.09	16.20	34.47	191%	-53%
Zoltek Companies	St Louis	MO	16.73	5.84	42.87	186%	-86%
Great Southern Bancorp	Springfield	MO	28.18	9.87	21.96	186%	-55%
Emerson Electric	St Louis	MO	67.30	25.17	56.66	167%	-56%
Kansas City Life Insurance	Kansas City	MO	40.77	16.18	43.59	152%	-63%
Stifel Financial	St Louis	MO	45.84	20.00	23.36	129%	-14%
Cass Information Systems	St Louis	MO	49.73	22.92	30.37	117%	-25%
Pulaski Financial Group	St Louis	MO	11.00	5.10	10.00	116%	-49%
LMI Aerospace	St Charles	MO	13.56	6.39	26.51	112%	-76%
Enterprise Financial Services	St Louis	MO	17.70	8.68	23.81	104%	-64%
Isle of Capri Casinos	St Louis	MO	6.51	3.20	13.77	103%	-77%
Commerce Bancshares	Kansas City	MO	43.03	22.54	33.48	91%	-33%
Aegion	Chesterfield	MO	23.81	12.62	14.80	89%	-15%
Monsanto	St Louis	MO	117.00	71.65	111.69	63%	-36%
UMB Financial	KansaS City	MO	55.35	34.54	38.36	60%	-10%
H&R Block	Kansas City	MO	28.26	18.68	18.57	51%	1%
NASB Financial Inc	Grandview	MO	21.12	14.89	26.38	42%	-44%
SunEdison	St Peters	MO	18.07	13.68	88.49	32%	-85%
ESCO Technologies	St Louis	MO	34.38	32.57	39.94	6%	-18%
Peabody Energy	St Louis	MO	19.13	21.84	61.64	-12%	-65%
Arch Coal	St Louis	MO	4.21	12.53	44.93	-66%	-72%
Average % Change all 42						265%	-48%