Colorado Company Stock Prices On Absolute Fire in the Most Recent Month

I found 59 Colorado Headquartered Companies in Yahoo's or Google's superb Finance websites or from SEC filings with Total Market Capitalizations of at least $100 mil on May 16, 2014 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 May 16, 2014

I also included one Colorado Company which was sold in December 2013.  And I also included 2 Colorado Companies whose common stock first started trading in 2008.  That makes a total of 62 Colorado Companies.

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

These 62 Colorado Companies had their average stock market prices decline by a massive 62% 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 and 4 months since March 6, 2009, the equal-company-weighted average stock market prices of these same 62 Colorado Companies have increased by a spectacular 501% through June 27, 2014, led mainly by Kodiak Oil & Gas having its stock market price increase by a massive 65 times over this same most recent five years and 4 month period.

In addition to Kodiak Oil & Gas, there were another 7 Colorado Companies which had their stock market prices increase by at least 10 times in the most recent 5 years and 4 months..... Advanced Emissions Solutions up 14 times, Innospec up 13 times, Crocs up 11 times,  Chipotle Mexican Grill up 11 times, Liberty Interactive up 11 times, Allied Motion Technologies up 10 times and Air Methods up 10 times.

The stock market prices of these Colorado Companies were absolutely on fire in the most recent month.  To illustrate this point, the average stock market prices of these 62 Colorado Companies had increased by a lower 444% in the slightly more than five years and two months from March 6, 2009 through May 16, 2014, as compared with a substantially higher 501% increase in the slightly less than five years and four months from March 6, 2009 through June 27, 2014. 

To illustrate the overall excellent operational performance of these 62 Colorado Companies, only 4 of them experienced stock market price declines in the most recent slightly less than five years and four months.

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

In similar fashion on the employment front, 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 May 2014.

In like manner, Colorado's unemployment rate more than doubled, going from 4.1% in December 2007 to 8.3% 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 Colorado unemployment rate declined markedly, going from 8.3% in October 2009 to 5.8% in the most recently reported May 2014.

Below here are the stock market prices of each of these 62 Colorado Companies on June 27, 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
Colorado Company	HQs		6-27-14	3-6-09	12-31-07	6-27-14	3-6-09
			$s	$s	$s
Kodiak Oil & Gas	Denver	CO	14.45	0.22	2.20	6468%	-90%
Advanced Emissions Solutions	Highland Ranch	CO	23.01	1.57	3.79	1370%	-59%
Innospec Inc	Littleton	CO	43.25	3.04	17.16	1323%	-82%
Crocs Inc	Niwot	CO	14.82	1.19	36.81	1145%	-97%
Chipotle Mexican Grill	Denver	CO	596.14	49.19	147.07	1112%	-67%
Liberty Interactive	Englewood	CO	29.09	2.50	19.08	1064%	-87%
Allied Motion Technologies	Englewood	CO	14.55	1.29	4.65	1030%	-72%
Air Methods	Englewood	CO	52.69	4.67	16.56	1029%	-72%
Dot Hill	Longmont	CO	4.41	0.43	2.43	928%	-82%
Liberty Global	Englewood	CO	43.92	4.48	13.63	879%	-67%
Cimarex Energy Co	Denver	CO	142.80	15.92	42.53	797%	-63%
Spectranetics	Colorado Springs	CO	23.20	2.70	15.33	759%	-82%
Berry Petroleum	Denver	CO	47.25	5.74	44.45	723%	-87%
Whiting Petroleum	Denver	CO	78.82	10.07	28.83	683%	-65%
MarkWest Energy Partners LP	Denver	CO	71.31	9.16	33.78	678%	-73%
SM Energy Co	Denver	CO	83.15	11.63	38.61	615%	-70%
Dish Network	Englewood	CO	65.64	9.27	33.95	608%	-73%
Apartment Investment & Mgt	Denver	CO	32.54	4.94	29.11	559%	-83%
PDC Energy Inc	Denver	CO	62.27	10.11	59.13	516%	-83%
TW Telecom	Littleton	CO	40.33	6.80	20.29	493%	-66%
Red Robin Gourmet Burgers	Greenwood Village	CO	71.39	12.13	31.99	489%	-62%
DCP Midstream Partners LP	Denver	CO	57.06	10.09	45.95	466%	-78%
Woodward	Fort Collins	CO	50.07	9.08	33.98	451%	-73%
Penford Corp	Centennial	CO	11.40	2.21	25.59	416%	-91%
Vail Resorts	Broomfield	CO	77.10	16.08	53.81	379%	-70%
Mesa Laboratories	Lakewood	CO	84.50	18.01	25.00	369%	-28%
Evolving Systems	Englewood	CO	8.42	1.84	5.96	358%	-69%
Dynamic Materials	Boulder	CO	22.24	5.23	58.90	325%	-91%
Century Casinos	Colorado Springs	CO	5.94	1.42	6.44	318%	-78%
Level 3 Communications	Broomfield	CO	43.99	10.88	45.60	305%	-76%
UDR Inc	Highlands Ranch	CO	28.64	7.23	19.85	296%	-64%
Arrow Electronics	Englewood	CO	60.32	15.59	39.28	287%	-60%
IHS Inc	Englewood	CO	136.04	37.00	60.56	268%	-39%
EchoStar	Englewood	CO	53.59	14.69	18.83	265%	-22%
Ball Corp	Broomfield	CO	62.99	18.62	22.50	238%	-17%
StarTek	Denver	CO	7.78	2.30	9.31	238%	-75%
TeleTech Holdings	Englewood Cliffs	CO	29.24	8.66	21.27	238%	-59%
Advanced Energy Industries	Ft Collins	CO	19.00	5.66	13.08	236%	-57%
DaVita HealthCare Partners	Denver	CO	72.95	22.86	28.18	219%	-19%
DCT Industrial Trust	Denver	CO	8.24	2.64	9.31	212%	-72%
Gaiam Inc	Louisville	CO	7.70	2.57	29.68	200%	-91%
Transmontaigne Partners LP	Denver	CO	44.15	15.11	28.39	192%	-47%
Janus Capital Group	Denver	CO	12.60	4.34	32.85	190%	-87%
Emerald Oil Inc	Denver	CO	7.59	2.66	11.97	185%	-78%
Einstein Noah Restaurant Group	Lakewood	CO	15.88	5.77	18.15	175%	-68%
Ascent Capital Group	Greenwood Village	CO	64.97	23.76	33.95	173%	-30%
CoBiz Financial	Denver	CO	10.80	4.23	14.87	155%	-72%
Ciber	Greenwood Village	CO	4.95	2.20	6.11	125%	-64%
Molson Coors Brewing	Denver	CO	74.40	34.10	51.62	118%	-34%
CSG Systems	Englewood	CO	25.74	13.32	14.72	93%	-10%
Royal Gold Inc	Denver	CO	74.77	40.15	30.52	86%	32%
Guaranty Bancorp	Denver	CO	14.28	7.75	28.90	84%	-73%
Western Union	Englewood	CO	17.25	10.43	24.28	65%	-57%
Array BioPharma	Boulder	CO	4.25	2.60	8.42	63%	-69%
Bill Barrett Corp	Denver	CO	26.65	17.74	41.87	50%	-58%
National CineMedia	Centennial	CO	17.41	12.00	25.21	45%	-52%
MDC Holdings	Denver	CO	30.14	23.47	37.13	28%	-37%
Intrepid Potash	Denver	CO	16.66	14.49	50.40	15%	-71%
Thompson Creek Metals	Denver	CO	2.91	2.92	17.11	0%	-83%
Resolute Energy Corp	Denver	CO	8.40	9.37	9.19	-10%	2%
Newmont Mining	Greenwood Village	CO	25.19	38.90	48.83	-35%	-20%
Forest Oil Corp	Denver	CO	2.30	8.10	36.57	-72%	-78%
Average % Change all 62						501%	-62%