Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Maryland Company Stock Prices Up Again Sharply in the Most Recent Month

I found 44 Maryland 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 May 14, 2014.
I also included one Maryland Company which was sold in 2014.  And I also included one Maryland Company whose common stock first started trading in early 2008.  That makes 46 Maryland Companies.

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

These 46 Maryland 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 five years and three months since March 6, 2009 through June 17, 2014, the equal-company-weighted average stock market prices of these same 46 Maryland Companies have increased by a phenomenal 532%.

Three of these 46 Maryland Companies had their stock market prices increase by more than 20 times in the five years and three months since March 6, 2009 through June 17, 2014.

And 7 of these 46 Maryland Companies had their stock market prices increase by more than 10 times in the five years and three months since March 6, 2009 through June 17, 2014.

These 46 Maryland Companies had their average stock market prices increase sharply again in the most recent month.  To illustrate this point, the average stock market prices of these same 46 Maryland Companies had increased by a lower 504% in the five years and two months from March 6, 2009 through May 14, 2014, as compared with a much higher 532% increase in the five years and three months from March 6, 2009 through June 17, 2014.

To illustrate the overall operational excellence of these 46 Maryland Companies, only 2 of them had their stock market prices decline in the five years and three months since March 6, 2009 through June 17, 2014.

Maryland citizens should be extremely pleased with the outstanding performance of nearly all of their Maryland 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, Maryland's unemployment rate more than doubled, going from 3.3% 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 Maryland State unemployment rate declined sharply, going from 7.8% in October 2009 to 5.5% in the most recently reported April 2014.

Below here are the stock market prices of each of these 46 Maryland Companies on June 17, 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
Maryland Company HQs
6-17-14 3-6-09 12-31-07 6-17-14 3-6-09



$s $s $s

American Capital Bethesda MD       14.77      0.44    24.66 3274% -98%
Sinclair Broadcast Group Hunt Valley MD       30.11      1.13      8.21 2565% -86%
WR Grace Columbia MD       94.73      4.18    26.18 2166% -84%
Under Armour Baltimore MD       59.59      3.08    10.92 1833% -72%
CapitalSource Chevy Chase MD       15.50      1.01    17.59 1435% -94%
Colfax Fulton MD       73.72      6.01    21.00 1127% -71%
Radio One Inc Silver Spring MD         4.56      0.41      2.37 1012% -83%
GP Strategies Elkridge MD       24.51      2.74    10.65 795% -74%
LaSalle Hotel Properties Bethesda MD       34.64      3.91    31.90 786% -88%
Novavax Rockville MD         4.49      0.56      3.33 702% -83%
TESSCO Technologies Hunt Valley MD       30.30      4.03    12.05 651% -67%
Medifast Owing Mills MD       33.65      4.52      4.85 644% -7%
Eagle Bancorp Bethesda MD       32.47      4.91    10.00 561% -51%
Chindex Intl Bethesda MD       23.67      3.64    23.02 550% -84%
Host Hotels & Resorts Bethesda MD       22.11      3.54    17.04 525% -79%
Nuvilex Silver Spring MD         0.27      0.05      0.22 433% -77%
Marriott Intl Bethesda MD       62.45    11.90    32.21 425% -63%
Neuralstem Rockville MD         4.44      0.86      3.73 416% -77%
Discovery Communications Silver Spring MD       77.14    15.12    23.12 410% -35%
Jos A Bank Clothiers Hampstead MD       65.01    13.51    18.97 381% -29%
Legg Mason Baltimore MD       50.58    11.14    73.15 354% -85%
MICROS Systems Columbia MD       66.33    15.03    35.08 341% -57%
Diamondrock Hospitality Bethesda MD       12.50      3.00    14.98 317% -80%
T Rowe Price Group Baltimore MD       82.73    21.07    60.88 293% -65%
Ciena Corp Hanover MD       22.51      6.11    34.11 268% -82%
Old Line Bancshares Bowie MD       16.80      4.60      8.05 265% -43%
Sandy Spring Bancorp Olney MD       24.41      7.16    27.82 241% -74%
Federal Realty Investment Trust Rockville MD      118.98    39.90    82.15 198% -51%
Omega Healthcare Investors Hunt Valley MD       35.39    11.89    16.05 198% -26%
Lockheed Martin Bethesda MD      164.24    58.85  105.26 179% -44%
United Therapeutics Silver Spring MD       86.30    31.48    48.83 174% -36%
Argan Rockville MD       30.80    12.01    13.35 156% -10%
McCormick & Co Sparks MD       71.63    30.32    37.91 136% -20%
Saul Centers Bethesda MD       48.23    20.44    53.43 136% -62%
First Potomac Realty Trust Bethesda MD       12.86      6.46    17.29 99% -63%
Community Financial Corp Waldorf MD       21.65    10.99    24.11 97% -54%
Choice Hotels Intl Rockville MD       45.43    23.49    33.20 93% -29%
Rexahn Pharmaceuticals Rockville MD         0.91      0.51      2.25 78% -77%
Sucampo Pharmaceuticals Bethesda MD         7.40      4.38    18.34 69% -76%
Washington REIT Rockville MD       25.74    15.60    31.41 65% -50%
Vocus Beltsville MD       17.98    13.17    34.53 37% -62%
Corporate Office Properties Trust Columbia MD       28.47    21.72    31.50 31% -31%
Synutra Intl Rockville MD         6.84      5.32    30.20 29% -82%
Emergent BioSolutions Rockville MD       22.29    19.91      5.06 12% 293%
Osiris Therapeutics Columbia MD       15.72    18.01    12.02 -13% 50%
TeleCommunication Systems Annapolis MD         3.29      8.04      3.56 -59% 126%








Average % Change all 46




532% -48%