I found 68 Virginia 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 70 Virginia Companies had their average stock market prices decline by a huge 44% 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 both Virginia US Senators, including Mark Warner, were Democrats, the average stock market prices of these same 70 Virginia Companies have increased by an exceptional 384%.
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 70 Virginia Companies have increased by a very impressive 87%...... yeah, they have not just recouped the massive amount they lost with the disastrous 2008 financial meltdown, but also added another 87%.
Below here are the stock market prices of each of these 70 Virginia 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 | |||
| Virginia Company | HQs | 8-15-14 | 3-6-09 | 12-31-07 | 8-15-14 | 3-6-09 | 8-15-14 | |
| $s | $s | $s | WARNER | |||||
| Measurement Specialties | Hampton | VA | 85.99 | 2.73 | 22.10 | 3050% | -88% | 289% |
| GTT Communications | McLean | VA | 10.98 | 0.36 | 1.05 | 2950% | -66% | 946% |
| Bassett Furniture | Bassett | VA | 14.57 | 0.82 | 9.34 | 1681% | -91% | 56% |
| Genworth Financial | Richmond | VA | 13.41 | 0.84 | 25.45 | 1496% | -97% | -47% |
| Gannett | McLean | VA | 34.56 | 2.20 | 39.00 | 1471% | -94% | -11% |
| NewMarket Corp | Richmond | VA | 401.63 | 29.55 | 55.69 | 1259% | -47% | 621% |
| Freddie Mac | McLean | VA | 3.93 | 0.36 | 34.07 | 992% | -99% | -88% |
| Arlington Asset Investment Corp | Arlington | VA | 27.34 | 2.60 | 62.80 | 952% | -96% | -56% |
| Trex Co | Winchester | VA | 36.11 | 3.48 | 4.26 | 939% | -18% | 749% |
| Capital One Financial | McLean | VA | 79.30 | 8.31 | 47.26 | 854% | -82% | 68% |
| Portfolio Recovery Associates | Norfolk | VA | 56.92 | 6.73 | 13.22 | 745% | -49% | 330% |
| Lumber Liquidators | Toano | VA | 55.26 | 7.71 | 8.99 | 617% | -14% | 515% |
| MCG Capital Corp | Arlington | VA | 3.98 | 0.61 | 11.59 | 552% | -95% | -66% |
| WidePoint | McLean | VA | 1.62 | 0.25 | 1.07 | 548% | -77% | 51% |
| MeadWestvaco | Richmond | VA | 42.49 | 6.99 | 27.88 | 508% | -75% | 52% |
| CarMax | Richmond | VA | 50.40 | 8.68 | 19.75 | 481% | -56% | 155% |
| Virginia Commerce Bancorp | Arlington | VA | 16.26 | 2.96 | 10.66 | 449% | -72% | 52% |
| ePlus | Herndon | VA | 57.08 | 10.81 | 13.47 | 428% | -20% | 324% |
| Corporate Executive Board | Arlington | VA | 65.02 | 12.96 | 60.10 | 402% | -78% | 8% |
| comScore | Reston | VA | 39.19 | 8.23 | 32.63 | 376% | -75% | 20% |
| MAXIMUS | Reston | VA | 39.80 | 8.53 | 9.65 | 366% | -12% | 312% |
| Dollar Tree | Chesapeake | VA | 55.61 | 13.19 | 8.64 | 321% | 53% | 544% |
| MicroStrategy | Tysons Corner | VA | 134.86 | 33.80 | 95.10 | 299% | -64% | 42% |
| Northrop Grumman | Falls Church | VA | 124.87 | 31.33 | 71.34 | 299% | -56% | 75% |
| Norfolk Southern | Norfolk | VA | 104.49 | 27.41 | 50.44 | 281% | -46% | 107% |
| Access National | Reston | VA | 16.27 | 4.32 | 6.04 | 277% | -28% | 169% |
| Advance Auto Parts | Roanoke | VA | 131.47 | 36.43 | 37.99 | 261% | -4% | 246% |
| Avalonbay Communities | Arlington | VA | 150.96 | 42.14 | 94.14 | 258% | -55% | 60% |
| NVR Inc | Reston | VA | 1,135.57 | 320.55 | 524.00 | 254% | -39% | 117% |
| Cardinal Financial | McLean | VA | 17.51 | 5.12 | 9.32 | 242% | -45% | 88% |
| General Dynamics | Falls Church | VA | 119.34 | 36.49 | 88.99 | 227% | -59% | 34% |
| FBR & Co | Arlington | VA | 28.03 | 9.60 | 38.32 | 192% | -75% | -27% |
| Monarch Financial Holdings | Chesapeake | VA | 12.00 | 4.18 | 7.92 | 187% | -47% | 52% |
| Markel | Glen Allen | VA | 637.89 | 225.21 | 491.10 | 183% | -54% | 30% |
| VSE Corp | Alexandria | VA | 59.89 | 21.42 | 48.84 | 180% | -56% | 23% |
| VeriSign | Reston | VA | 55.74 | 20.06 | 37.61 | 178% | -47% | 48% |
| Gladstone Commercial | McLean | VA | 18.26 | 6.79 | 17.54 | 169% | -61% | 4% |
| Altria Group | Richmond | VA | 42.20 | 15.72 | 23.31 | 168% | -33% | 81% |
| Hooker Furniture | Martinsville | VA | 14.73 | 5.52 | 20.10 | 167% | -73% | -27% |
| C&F Financial Corp | West Point | VA | 33.35 | 12.57 | 30.25 | 165% | -58% | 10% |
| Beacon Roofing Supply | Herndon | VA | 28.23 | 10.84 | 8.42 | 160% | 29% | 235% |
| Southern National Bancorp VA | McLean | VA | 10.44 | 4.41 | 9.00 | 137% | -51% | 16% |
| Union Bankshares | Richmond | VA | 23.75 | 10.41 | 21.14 | 128% | -51% | 12% |
| American Woodmark | Winchester | VA | 30.47 | 13.88 | 18.18 | 120% | -24% | 68% |
| Orbital Sciences | Dulles | VA | 26.01 | 12.18 | 24.52 | 114% | -50% | 6% |
| Leidos Holdings | Reston | VA | 36.81 | 17.54 | 20.12 | 110% | -13% | 83% |
| Alliant Techsystems | Arlington | VA | 129.60 | 63.40 | 113.76 | 104% | -44% | 14% |
| Universal Corp | Richmond | VA | 50.47 | 26.15 | 51.22 | 93% | -49% | -1% |
| NeuStar | Sterling | VA | 28.66 | 15.63 | 28.68 | 83% | -46% | 0% |
| Computer Sciences Corp | Falls Church | VA | 58.82 | 32.84 | 49.47 | 79% | -34% | 19% |
| First Community Bancshares | Bluefield | VA | 14.82 | 8.28 | 31.89 | 79% | -74% | -54% |
| CACI Intl | Arlington | VA | 70.23 | 40.98 | 44.77 | 71% | -8% | 57% |
| Middleburg Financial | Middleburg | VA | 18.52 | 11.31 | 21.32 | 64% | -47% | -13% |
| National Bankshares | Blacksburg | VA | 28.60 | 18.03 | 17.10 | 59% | 5% | 67% |
| Owens & Minor | Mechanicsville | VA | 33.48 | 21.31 | 28.29 | 57% | -25% | 18% |
| Shenandoah Telecommunications | Edinburg | VA | 27.70 | 17.73 | 23.98 | 56% | -26% | 16% |
| ICF Intl | Fairfax | VA | 34.79 | 22.55 | 25.26 | 54% | -11% | 38% |
| Spok Holdings | Springfield | VA | 14.90 | 10.32 | 14.30 | 44% | -28% | 4% |
| American National Bankshares | Danville | VA | 21.20 | 15.50 | 19.97 | 37% | -22% | 6% |
| K12 Inc | Herndon | VA | 19.65 | 14.75 | 25.87 | 33% | -43% | -24% |
| Tredegar | Richmond | VA | 20.02 | 15.20 | 16.08 | 32% | -5% | 25% |
| Brink's | Richmond | VA | 27.00 | 21.38 | 59.74 | 26% | -64% | -55% |
| Dynex Capital | Glen Allen | VA | 8.61 | 6.90 | 8.87 | 25% | -22% | -3% |
| Towne Bank | Portsmouth | VA | 14.75 | 11.84 | 15.63 | 25% | -24% | -6% |
| NTELOS Holdings | Waynesboro | VA | 12.41 | 17.89 | 29.69 | -31% | -40% | -58% |
| ManTech Intl | Fairfax | VA | 28.04 | 43.98 | 43.82 | -36% | 0% | -36% |
| Alpha Natural Resources | Bristol | VA | 3.85 | 10.13 | 35.75 | -62% | -72% | -89% |
| Strayer Education | Herndon | VA | 58.88 | 159.43 | 170.58 | -63% | -7% | -65% |
| NCI Inc | Reston | VA | 9.39 | 26.25 | 17.11 | -64% | 53% | -45% |
| Hampton Roads Bankshares | Virginia Beach | VA | 1.63 | 158.75 | 314.00 | -99% | -49% | -99% |
| Average % Change all 70 | 384% | -44% | 87% |
In like manner on the employment front, from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Virginia's State unemployment rate more than doubled, going from 3.3% in December 2007 to 7.2% 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 both Democratic Virginia US Senators, including Mark Warner, were in office, the Virginia State unemployment rate has declined from 7.2% in October 2009 to 5.3% in the most recently reported June 2014.
Virginia Citizens must be very pleased with both the outstanding performance of the overwhelming majority of their Virginia Companies as well as the significant drop in the Virginia Unemployment Rate, both occurring during the most recent roughly five years when the influential Mark Warner was serving in the US Senate very effectively for the interests of his Virginia constituents.
