New Jersey Company Stock Market Prices Up 389% Since March 6, 2009

The New Jersey US Senate race is not now very close, but I think there is a chance it will be getting much closer in the future.  Thus, I think it would be helpful to research how New Jersey Headquartered Companies have done on the stock market price front since March 6, 2009, which was the very bottom point of the US Stock Market due to the spillover effects resulting from the disastrous 2008 financial meltdown.  And I also think it would be helpful to research how New Jersey has done on the employment front after the horrible effects of the 2008 US financial meltdown.

I found 90 New Jersey 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 August 15, 2014.

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

These 90 New Jersey 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 five years and five months since March 6, 2009 through August 15, 2014, when all three New Jersey US Senators holding office during this time frame were smart, very effective Democrats.....Cory Booker, Frank Lautenberg and Robert Menendez....., the average stock market prices of these same 90 New Jersey Companies have increased by an exceptional 389%.

Thus in the six years and seven months from December 31, 2007 before the 2008 financial meltdown to the most recent date August 15, 2014, the equally-company-weighted average stock market prices of these same 90 New Jersey Companies have increased by an impressive 67%...... yeah, they have not just recouped the massive amount they lost with the disastrous 2008 financial meltdown, but also added another 67%.

Below here are the stock market prices of each of these 90 New Jersey Companies on August 15, 2014, on March 6, 2009, and on December 31, 2007, along with the related Stock Market Price Percentage Changes:

						Market	Market	Market
						Price	Price	Price
						%	%	%
						Change	Change	Change
			Market	Market	Market	3-6-09	12-31-07	12-31-07
			Price	Price	Price	to	to	to
New Jersey Company	HQs		8-15-14	3-6-09	12-31-07	8-15-14	3-6-09	8-15-14
			$s	$s	$s
						BOOKER
						LAUTENBERG
						& MENENDEZ
Wyndham Worldwide	Parsippany	NJ	79.19	2.92	23.56	2612%	-88%	236%
IDT Corp	Newark	NJ	15.69	0.59	8.45	2543%	-93%	86%
SL Industries	Mount Laurel	NJ	41.06	2.20	20.00	1766%	-89%	105%
Protalex	Summit	NJ	6.90	0.38	6.50	1740%	-94%	6%
Rockwood Holdings	Princeton	NJ	79.48	4.65	33.22	1609%	-86%	139%
Cambrex	East Rutherford	NJ	21.50	1.50	8.38	1333%	-82%	157%
Hertz Global Holdings	Park Ridge	NJ	30.14	2.24	15.89	1246%	-86%	90%
WABCO Holdings	Piscataway	NJ	101.38	8.45	50.09	1100%	-83%	102%
Heartland Payment Systems	Princeton	NJ	47.22	4.03	26.80	1072%	-85%	76%
IGI Laboratories	Buena	NJ	6.12	0.57	1.41	974%	-60%	334%
Cytec Industries	Woodland Park	NJ	103.29	10.99	61.58	840%	-82%	68%
Vonage Holdings	Holmdel	NJ	3.26	0.38	2.30	758%	-83%	42%
Movado Group	Paramus	NJ	41.39	5.04	25.29	721%	-80%	64%
Actavis	Parsippany	NJ	215.43	26.36	27.14	717%	-3%	694%
Prudential Financial	Newark	NJ	87.86	11.38	93.04	672%	-88%	-6%
B&G Foods	Parsippany	NJ	29.28	3.99	10.21	634%	-61%	187%
Innophos Holdings	Cranbury	NJ	58.27	8.24	14.88	607%	-45%	292%
Hovnanian Enterprises	Red Bank	NJ	3.97	0.58	7.17	584%	-92%	-45%
Elite Pharmaceuticals	Northvale	NJ	0.34	0.05	2.16	580%	-98%	-84%
Marlin Business Services Corp	Mount Laurel	NJ	19.60	2.92	12.06	571%	-76%	63%
NPS Pharmaceuticals	Bedminster	NJ	26.97	4.06	3.83	564%	6%	604%
Ingersoll-Rand	Piscataway	NJ	60.55	9.45	37.09	541%	-75%	63%
Cantel Medical	Little Falls	NJ	33.81	5.40	6.48	527%	-17%	422%
Universal Display	Ewing	NJ	33.04	5.36	20.67	516%	-74%	60%
Antares Pharma	Ewing	NJ	2.14	0.36	0.98	494%	-63%	118%
Asta Funding	Englewood Cliffs	NJ	8.42	1.46	26.44	477%	-94%	-68%
CommVault Systems	Oceanport	NJ	52.92	10.51	21.18	404%	-50%	150%
Tyco Intl	Princeton	NJ	43.86	8.84	19.48	396%	-55%	125%
Cognizant Technology Solutions	Teaneck	NJ	44.76	9.15	16.97	389%	-46%	164%
Rudolph Technologies	Flanders	NJ	9.61	2.03	11.32	373%	-82%	-15%
Synchronoss Technologies	Bridgewater	NJ	39.96	9.06	35.44	341%	-74%	13%
Celgene	Summit	NJ	89.61	20.58	23.11	335%	-11%	288%
Honeywell	Morristown	NJ	94.23	23.60	61.57	299%	-62%	53%
Investors Bancorp	Short Hills	NJ	10.37	2.77	5.55	274%	-50%	87%
Immunomedics	Morris Plains	NJ	3.35	0.95	2.32	253%	-59%	44%
ORBCOMM	Rochelle Park	NJ	6.19	1.77	6.29	250%	-72%	-2%
Arch Capital Group Ltd	Jersey City	NJ	55.61	15.93	23.45	249%	-32%	137%
AEP Industries	South Hackensack	NJ	40.81	12.06	32.01	238%	-62%	27%
Sealed Air	Elmwood Park	NJ	34.85	10.64	23.14	228%	-54%	51%
Bed Bath & Beyond	Union	NJ	61.91	19.52	29.39	217%	-34%	111%
J&J Snack Foods	Pennsauken	NJ	95.24	30.99	31.28	207%	-1%	204%
Bio-Reference Laboratories	Elmwood Park	NJ	32.09	10.64	16.34	202%	-35%	96%
Curtiss-Wright	Parsippany	NJ	68.03	23.26	37.08	192%	-37%	83%
Church & Dwight	Ewing	NJ	67.29	23.43	27.04	187%	-13%	149%
Alexander's	Paramus	NJ	387.68	137.82	353.25	181%	-61%	10%
The Medicines Company	Parsippany	NJ	25.55	9.33	19.16	174%	-51%	33%
ConnectOne Bancorp	Union	NJ	19.06	7.02	11.06	172%	-37%	72%
Everest Re Group Ltd	Liberty Corner	NJ	162.67	61.84	100.40	163%	-38%	62%
Merck	Whitehouse Station	NJ	58.61	22.74	58.11	158%	-61%	1%
Chubb	Warren	NJ	89.84	35.73	54.58	151%	-35%	65%
Bel Fuse	Jersey City	NJ	22.93	9.22	29.27	149%	-69%	-22%
Covance	Princeton	NJ	85.56	34.50	86.62	148%	-60%	-1%
Automatic Data Processing	Roseland	NJ	82.27	33.28	44.53	147%	-25%	85%
The Children's Place	Secaucus	NJ	49.67	20.14	25.93	147%	-22%	92%
Boulder Brands	Paramus	NJ	13.40	5.57	10.93	141%	-49%	23%
Integra LifeSciences	Plainsboro	NJ	48.49	20.29	41.93	139%	-52%	16%
PHH Corp	Mount Laurel	NJ	23.82	10.19	17.64	134%	-42%	35%
Selective Insurance Group	Branchville	NJ	23.68	10.61	22.99	123%	-54%	3%
OceanFirst Financial	Toms River	NJ	16.71	7.75	15.81	116%	-51%	6%
Foster Wheeler	Clinton	NJ	32.22	15.15	77.51	113%	-80%	-58%
Checkpoint Systems	Thorofare	NJ	13.57	6.41	25.98	112%	-75%	-48%
Johnson & Johnson	New Brunswick	NJ	101.17	47.97	66.70	111%	-28%	52%
Oritani Financial	Washington Township	NJ	14.99	7.15	8.20	110%	-13%	83%
John Wiley & Sons	Hoboken	NJ	59.28	28.37	42.84	109%	-34%	38%
CR Bard	Murray Hill	NJ	149.83	72.38	94.80	107%	-24%	58%
Provident Financial Services	Jersey City	NJ	16.78	8.15	14.42	106%	-43%	16%
Monmouth Real Estate Investment	Freehold	NJ	10.43	5.09	8.10	105%	-37%	29%
Northfield Bancorp	Woodbridge	NJ	12.91	6.36	7.71	103%	-18%	67%
Kearny Financial	Fairfield	NJ	15.96	8.06	11.91	98%	-32%	34%
UMH Properties	Freehold	NJ	9.96	5.25	11.77	90%	-55%	-15%
Lakeland Bancorp	Oak Ridge	NJ	10.21	5.53	10.51	85%	-47%	-3%
Becton Dickinson	Franklin Lakes	NJ	117.27	64.15	83.58	83%	-23%	40%
Hill Intl	Marlton	NJ	4.49	2.57	14.17	75%	-82%	-68%
Peapack-Gladstone Financial	Bedminster	NJ	18.62	11.33	23.40	64%	-52%	-20%
Campbell Soup	Camden	NJ	43.47	26.55	35.73	64%	-26%	22%
Dun & Bradstreet	Short Hills	NJ	116.95	71.76	88.63	63%	-19%	32%
Covanta Holding	Morristown	NJ	20.69	13.42	27.66	54%	-51%	-25%
Clifton Savings Bancorp	Clifton	NJ	12.54	8.26	9.80	52%	-16%	28%
Insmed	Monmouth Junction	NJ	13.18	8.70	8.30	51%	5%	59%
Cape Bancorp	Cape May Court House	NJ	10.23	7.00	22.05	46%	-68%	-54%
Mack-Cali Realty	Edison	NJ	21.14	14.63	34.00	44%	-57%	-38%
Suburban Propane Partners LP	Whippany	NJ	44.18	32.06	40.50	38%	-21%	9%
BCB Bancorp	Bayonne	NJ	12.98	9.49	15.55	37%	-39%	-17%
Quest Diagnostics	Madison	NJ	60.38	44.41	52.90	36%	-16%	14%
Valley National Bancorp	Wayne	NJ	9.77	7.40	14.93	32%	-50%	-35%
Hudson City Bancorp	Paramus	NJ	9.61	8.80	15.02	9%	-41%	-36%
Sun Bancorp	Vineland	NJ	18.84	18.00	78.90	5%	-77%	-76%
North European Oil Royalty Trust	Red Bank	NJ	21.86	22.36	34.02	-2%	-34%	-36%
Village Super Market	Springfield	NJ	19.22	25.75	25.45	-25%	1%	-24%
Amicus Therapeutics	Cranbury	NJ	4.44	7.26	10.75	-39%	-32%	-59%
Average % Change all 90						389%	-51%	67%

But it's not just the New Jersey Companies existing at December 31, 2007 which have been doing very well since the 2008 US financial meltdown.  New Jersey has also been a hotbed for Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) since 2009.  As you can see in the below chart, there were 16 New Jersey IPOs since 2009 where the stock market price has appreciated by at least 23% from the Initial Offering Price.  Included in these 16 IPOs were 3 which were subsequently sold.

								%
								Market	# of
								Price	Months
						8-15-14		Change	Stock
						Stock		From	Traded
IPO		City	State			Market	Offering	Offering	Thru
Date	New Jersey Company IPO	HQs		Sector	Industry	Price	Price	Price	8-15-14
						$	$
2/3/11	Pacira Pharmaceuticals	Parsippany	NJ	Healthcare	Drug Manufacturers- Major	103.01	7.00	1372%	42
10/7/09	Verisk Analytics	Jersey City	NJ	Technology	Business Services	62.69	22.00	185%	58
10/28/10	SeaCube Container Leasing	Park Ridge	NJ	Services	Equipment Leasing	23.00	10.00	130%	30
10/28/09	Vitamin Shoppe	North Bergen	NJ	Healthcare	Specialty Retail	38.19	17.00	125%	58
6/21/13	PTC Therapeutics	South Plainfield	NJ	Health Care	Biotechnology	33.42	15.00	123%	14
10/2/13	Burlington Holdings	Burlington	NJ	Services	Discount Variety Stores	33.45	17.00	97%	10
10/25/13	Aerie Pharmaceuticals	Bedminster	NJ	Health Care	Major Drug Manufacturers	18.08	10.00	81%	10
10/8/09	Mistras Group	Princeton Junction	NJ	Services	Security & Protection Services	21.71	12.50	74%	58
4/11/13	Omthera Pharmaceuticals	Princeton	NJ	Health Care	Other Drug Manufacturers	13.30	8.00	66%	3
2/12/13	ConnectOne Bancorp	Englewood Cliffs	NJ	Financial	Regional Banks	45.60	28.00	63%	11
3/28/13	Pinnacle Foods	Parsippany	NJ	Consumer Goods	Food-Major Diversified	32.18	20.00	61%	17
10/11/12	Realogy Holdings	Madison	NJ	Financial	Property Management	40.20	27.00	49%	22
2/1/13	Zoetis	Florham Park	NJ	Health Care	Generic Drugs	33.69	26.00	30%	18
4/19/12	Tumi Holdings	South Plainfield	NJ	Services	Specialty Retail	23.03	18.00	28%	28
4/11/14	Phibro Animal Health	Teaneck	NJ	Health Care	Animal Health	18.52	15.00	23%	4
5/23/14	Agile Therapeutics	Princeton	NJ	Health Care	Generic Drugs	7.36	6.00	23%	3

In like manner on the employment front, from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, New Jersey's State unemployment rate more than doubled, going from 4.6% in December 2007 to 9.6% in October 2009, which was the very lowest point for the US Labor Market due to the lagging spillover effects resulting from the disastrous 2008 Financial Meltdown.  But in the four years and eight months since then, when all three Democratic New Jersey US Senators, including Cory Booker, were in office, the New Jersey State unemployment rate has declined from 9.6% in October 2009 to 6.5% in the most recently reported June 2014.

New Jersey Citizens must be very pleased with both the outstanding performance of nearly all of their New Jersey Companies as well as the substantial drop in the New Jersey Unemployment Rate, both occurring during the most recent roughly five years when the very bright, practical Cory Booker, Frank Lautenberg and Robert Menendez.....all Democrats..... were serving in the US Senate very effectively for the interests of their New Jersey constituents.







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