Colorado Company Stock Market Prices Up 457% Since March 6, 2009, a Very Nice Uptick in Just the Past Two Weeks.....14 IPOs Since 2009 With Stock Market Prices Up 69%..... Colorado Audited Earnings For 2 Years 2013 and 2012 Combined Up 752% Over 2 Years 2009 and 2008 Combined.....and a Huge Drop in Colorado Unemployment Rate From 8.3% in October 2009 to only 4.7% in September 2014

Since the Colorado US Senate Race is now very competitive, I think it would be helpful to update how Colorado 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, how they have done on the Initial Public Offering (IPO) front and also how the State's unemployment rate has fared.

During this five years and eight months period of time from March 6, 2009 through October 31, 2014, Moderate Mark Udall was a Colorado US Senator.

I found 58 Colorado Headquartered Companies in Yahoo's or Google's superb Finance websites or from SEC filings with current Total Stock Market Capitalizations of more than $100 mil each 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 October 31, 2014.

I also included two Colorado Companies whose common stock first started trading in 2008.  That makes it 60 Colorado Companies shown below.

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

These 60 Colorado Companies had their average equal-company-weighted 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 five years and eight months since March 6, 2009 through October 31, 2014, the average stock market prices of these same 60 Colorado Companies have increased by an exceptional 457%.    

Below here  are the stock market prices of each of these 60 Colorado Companies on October 31, 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
Colorado Company	HQs		Price	Price	Price	to	to	to
			10-31-14	3-6-09	12-31-07	10-31-14	3-6-09	10-31-14
			$	$	$	$	$	$
Kodiak Oil & Gas	Denver	CO	10.79	0.22	2.20	4805%	-90%	390%
Innospec Inc	Littleton	CO	40.37	3.04	17.16	1228%	-82%	135%
Chipotle Mexican Grill	Denver	CO	638.00	49.19	147.07	1197%	-67%	334%
Advanced Emissions Solutions	Highland Ranch	CO	20.22	1.57	3.79	1192%	-59%	434%
Spectranetics	Colorado Springs	CO	31.77	2.70	15.33	1077%	-82%	107%
Allied Motion Technologies	Englewood	CO	14.68	1.29	4.65	1040%	-72%	216%
Liberty Interactive	Englewood	CO	26.14	2.50	19.08	946%	-87%	37%
Liberty Global	Englewood	CO	45.47	4.48	13.63	914%	-67%	234%
Air Methods	Englewood	CO	47.23	4.67	16.56	912%	-72%	185%
Crocs Inc	Niwot	CO	11.68	1.19	36.81	882%	-97%	-68%
Dot Hill	Longmont	CO	3.95	0.43	2.43	821%	-82%	63%
Penford Corp	Centennial	CO	18.85	2.21	25.59	753%	-91%	-26%
MarkWest Energy Partners LP	Denver	CO	70.05	9.16	33.78	665%	-73%	107%
Apartment Investment & Management	Denver	CO	35.79	4.94	29.11	624%	-83%	23%
Cimarex Energy Co	Denver	CO	113.67	15.92	42.53	614%	-63%	167%
Dish Network	Englewood	CO	63.65	9.27	33.95	587%	-73%	87%
TW Telecom	Littleton	CO	42.78	6.80	20.29	529%	-66%	111%
Whiting Petroleum	Denver	CO	61.24	10.07	28.83	508%	-65%	112%
Evolving Systems	Englewood	CO	10.90	1.84	5.96	492%	-69%	83%
Woodward	Fort Collins	CO	51.21	9.08	33.98	464%	-73%	51%
Vail Resorts	Broomfield	CO	86.36	16.08	53.81	437%	-70%	60%
DCP Midstream Partners LP	Denver	CO	52.95	10.09	45.95	425%	-78%	15%
SM Energy Co	Denver	CO	56.30	11.63	38.61	384%	-70%	46%
Red Robin Gourmet Burgers	Greenwood Village	CO	54.97	12.13	31.99	353%	-62%	72%
PDC Energy Inc	Denver	CO	43.72	10.11	59.13	332%	-83%	-26%
Level 3 Communications	Broomfield	CO	46.91	10.88	45.60	331%	-76%	3%
Mesa Laboratories	Lakewood	CO	76.37	18.01	25.00	324%	-28%	205%
UDR Inc	Highlands Ranch	CO	30.23	7.23	19.85	318%	-64%	52%
Century Casinos	Colorado Springs	CO	5.44	1.42	6.44	283%	-78%	-16%
Arrow Electronics	Englewood	CO	56.86	15.59	39.28	265%	-60%	45%
IHS Inc	Englewood	CO	131.03	37.00	60.56	254%	-39%	116%
Einstein Noah Restaurant Group	Lakewood	CO	20.25	5.77	18.15	251%	-68%	12%
Advanced Energy Industries	Ft Collins	CO	19.78	5.66	13.08	249%	-57%	51%
Dynamic Materials	Boulder	CO	18.21	5.23	58.90	248%	-91%	-69%
Ball Corp	Broomfield	CO	64.43	18.62	22.50	246%	-17%	186%
Janus Capital Group	Denver	CO	14.99	4.34	32.85	245%	-87%	-54%
DaVita HealthCare Partners	Denver	CO	78.07	22.86	28.18	242%	-19%	177%
StarTek	Denver	CO	7.52	2.30	9.31	227%	-75%	-19%
DCT Industrial Trust	Denver	CO	8.57	2.64	9.31	225%	-72%	-8%
EchoStar	Englewood	CO	46.73	14.69	18.83	218%	-22%	148%
TeleTech Holdings	Englewood Cliffs	CO	25.81	8.66	21.27	198%	-59%	21%
Gaiam Inc	Louisville	CO	7.57	2.57	29.68	195%	-91%	-74%
CoBiz Financial	Denver	CO	12.02	4.23	14.87	184%	-72%	-19%
Ascent Capital Group	Greenwood Village	CO	64.30	23.76	33.95	171%	-30%	89%
Transmontaigne Partners LP	Denver	CO	37.45	15.11	28.39	148%	-47%	32%
Molson Coors Brewing	Denver	CO	74.38	34.10	51.62	118%	-34%	44%
Guaranty Bancorp	Denver	CO	15.77	7.75	28.90	103%	-73%	-45%
CSG Systems	Englewood	CO	26.51	13.32	14.72	99%	-10%	80%
Western Union	Englewood	CO	16.96	10.43	24.28	63%	-57%	-30%
Ciber	Greenwood Village	CO	3.27	2.20	6.11	49%	-64%	-46%
Royal Gold Inc	Denver	CO	57.15	40.15	30.52	42%	32%	87%
Array BioPharma	Boulder	CO	3.59	2.60	8.42	38%	-69%	-57%
National CineMedia	Centennial	CO	15.90	12.00	25.21	33%	-52%	-37%
Emerald Oil Inc	Denver	CO	3.18	2.66	11.97	20%	-78%	-73%
MDC Holdings	Denver	CO	24.42	23.47	37.13	4%	-37%	-34%
Intrepid Potash	Denver	CO	13.45	14.49	50.40	-7%	-71%	-73%
Bill Barrett Corp	Denver	CO	15.20	17.74	41.87	-14%	-58%	-64%
Thompson Creek Metals	Denver	CO	1.89	2.92	17.11	-35%	-83%	-89%
Newmont Mining	Greenwood Village	CO	18.76	38.90	48.83	-52%	-20%	-62%
Resolute Energy Corp	Denver	CO	3.48	9.37	9.19	-63%	2%	-62%
Average % Change all 60						457%	-62%	56%

Colorado is a strongly entrepreneurial State.  In addition to the above 60 Colorado Companies, below here are the 14 Colorado Companies filing Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) since 2009 which have experienced an average stock market price appreciation of a very robust 69% above their initial offering price for the short period of time their common stocks have been trading:

								%
								Market
								Price
						10-31-14		Change
						Stock		From
IPO		City	State			Market	Offering	Offering
Date	Colorado Company IPO	HQs		Sector	Industry	Price	Price	Price
						$	$
11/16/11	Clovis Oncology	Boulder	CO	Healthcare	Biotechnology	59.66	13.00	359%
12/15/11	Bonanza Creek Energy	Denver	CO	Basic Materials	Independent Oil & Gas	45.24	17.00	166%
9/23/10	CoreSite Realty	Denver	CO	Financial	REIT-Office	37.02	16.00	131%
10/26/12	WhiteWave Foods (The)	Denver	CO	Consumer Goods	Food-Major Diversified	37.23	17.00	119%
8/14/13	Envision Healthcare Holdings	Greenwood Village	CO	Health Care	Long-Term Care Facilities	34.95	23.00	52%
5/14/09	DigitalGlobal	Longmont	CO	Industrial Goods	Aerospace/Defense	28.59	19.00	50%
10/2/13	RE/MAX Holdings	Denver	CO	Financial	Property Management	32.00	22.00	45%
7/27/11	American Midstream Partners, LP	Denver	CO	Utilities	Gas Utilities	28.50	21.00	36%
6/28/13	Noodles & Company	Broomfield	CO	Services	Restaurants	22.83	18.00	27%
7/25/12	Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage	Lakewood	CO	Services	Grocery Stores	18.11	15.00	21%
10/10/13	Antero Resources	Denver	CO	Basic Materials	Oil&Gas Drilling&Exploration	52.44	44.00	19%
1/31/14	Intrawest Resorts Holdings	Denver	CO	Services	General Entertainment	10.64	12.00	-11%
6/18/14	Century Communities	Greenwood Village	CO	Consumer Goods	Homebuilding	18.48	23.00	-20%
4/12/13	Rally Software Development	Boulder	CO	Technology	Application Software	10.22	14.00	-27%
	Average % Change all 14							69%

On the Audited Earnings front, there were 44 Colorado Companies with Market Capitalizations now of at least $1 bil each and with annual audited financial statements filed with the SEC covering all years from 2008 to 2013 have done on the earnings front.

The Total Audited Net Income from Continuing Operations of these 44 largest Colorado Companies for the 2 Most Recent Years 2012 and 2013 combined totaled $23.0 bil, an increase of a phenomenal 752% over the $2.7 bil comparable total earnings for the 2 Years 2008 and 2009 combined.

Below here are the Audited Net Income (Losses) of each of these 44 largest Colorado Companies for each of the following six years: 2013, 2012, 2011, 2009 and 2008:

			2013	2012	2011	2009	2008	2007
			Audited	Audited	Audited	Audited	Audited	Audited
		Most	Net	Net	Net	Net	Net	Net
		Recent	Income	Income	Income	Income	Income	Income
		FYE	(Loss)	(Loss)	(Loss)	(Loss)	(Loss)	(Loss)
Colorado Company	HQs		mil $s	mil $s	mil $s	mil $s	mil $s	mil $s
Liberty Media	Englewood	Dec 13	8,780	1,160	594	193	(1,552)
Dish Network	Englewood	Dec 13	837	663	1,522	635	903	756
Western Union	Englewood	Dec 13	798	1,026	1,165	849	919	857
DaVita HealthCare Partners	Denver	Dec 13	744	641	591	480	421	429
Liberty Interactive	Englewood	Dec 13	580	1,591	587	637	(2,289)	1,959
Molson Coors Brewing	Denver	Dec 13	571	438	675	732	403	525
Cimarex Energy Co	Denver	Dec 13	565	354	530	(312)	(915)	345
Ball Corp	Broomfield	Dec 13	435	429	469	388	320	281
Arrow Electronics	Englewood	Dec 13	400	507	599	124	(614)	411
Whiting Petroleum	Denver	Dec 13	366	414	492	(107)	252	131
Chipotle Mexican Grill	Denver	Dec 13	327	278	215	127	78	71
MDC Holdings	Denver	Dec 13	314	63	(98)	25	(381)	(637)
DCP Midstream Partners LP	Denver	Dec 13	198	211	193	(11)	178	29
SM Energy Co	Denver	Dec 13	171	(54)	215	(99)	87	187
Woodward	Fort Collins	Sep 13	146	142	132	94	122	98
Kodiak Oil & Gas	Denver	Dec 13	141	132	4	(3)	(56)	(38)
IHS Inc	Englewood	Nov 13	132	158	135	135	99	84
Janus Capital Group	Denver	Dec 13	122	112	153	(744)	147	214
WhiteWave Foods	Denver	Dec 13	99	113	114	61	66	66
Berry Petroleum	Denver	Dec 13	93	172	(228)	60	122	127
TeleTech Holdings	Englewood Cliffs	Dec 13	71	74	78	76	77	56
Bonanza Creek Energy	Denver	Dec 13	70	45	15	(130)	69	(40)
Royal Gold Inc	Denver	Jun 14	63	73	98	29	41	25
Air Methods	Englewood	Dec 13	62	93	47	29	19	28
MarkWest Energy Partners LP	Denver	Dec 13	40	217	105	(113)	205	(35)
TW Telecom	Littleton	Dec 13	36	77	58	28	(7)	(55)
Apartment Investment & Management	Denver	Dec 13	35	(19)	(136)	(197)	(118)	(46)
CoreSite Realty	Denver	Dec 13	32	11	(11)	(7)	(14)	3
Vail Resorts	Broomfield	Jul 14	28	38	16	36	51	108
Intrepid Potash	Denver	Dec 13	22	87	109	55	143	30
Envision Healthcare	Greenwood Village	Dec 13	11	41	34	115	85
Crocs Inc	Niwot	Dec 13	10	131	113	(42)	(185)	168
EchoStar	Englewood	Dec 13	3	211	4	365	(958)	(85)
UDR Inc	Highlands Ranch	Dec 13	2	(46)	(127)	(94)	(62)	45
Spectranetics	Colorado Springs	Dec 13	(0)	2	1	(13)	(4)	7
DCT Industrial Trust	Denver	Dec 13	(9)	(29)	(43)	(24)	(13)	0
Antero Resources	Denver	Dec 13	(24)	225	271	(60)	(43)
PDC Energy Inc	Denver	Dec 13	(26)	(22)	23	(81)	109	26
DigitalGlobal	Longmont	Dec 13	(68)	39	(28)	47	54	96
Clovis Oncology	Boulder	Dec 13	(85)	(74)	(56)	(17)
Level 3 Communications	Broomfield	Dec 13	(109)	(422)	(827)	(618)	(318)	(1,146)
Bill Barrett Corp	Denver	Dec 13	(193)	1	31	50	105	27
Liberty Global	Englewood	Dec 13	(882)	(584)	(802)	(100)	(694)	(443)
Newmont Mining	Greenwood Village	Dec 13	(2,777)	2,194	1,108	2,109	1,147	(580)
Total all 44			12,131	10,913	8,140	4,707	(2,001)	4,084
Two Year Total Earnings
…..2012 and 2013			23,044
…..2008 and 2009			2,706
......% Increase			752%

On the employment front, Colorado has made exceptional progress with its State Unemployment rate dropping precipitously from 8.3% in October 2009 to only 4.7% in the most recently reported September 2014.

And on the Colorado Non-Profit Hospital Organization front, the gigantic Denver headquartered Catholic Health Initiatives generated a Bottom Line Profit of $634 mil in the most recent fiscal year ended June 30, 2014, a $1.1 billion Profit improvement from its $467 mil Bottom Line Loss in the financial meltdown fiscal year ended June 30, 2009.