Louisiana Company Stock Market Prices Up 291% Since March 6, 2009

Since the Louisiana US Senate Race is now so close between Mary Landrieu, a Moderate Democrat and Chair of the US Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.....which is so crucial to Louisiana citizens..... and far right Republican Bill Cassidy, I think it would be helpful to update how Louisiana 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.

During this five years and eight months period of time from March 6, 2009 through October 24, 2014, Mary Landrieu was a Louisiana US Senator.

I found 18 Louisiana 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 24, 2014.

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

These 18 Louisiana Companies had their average equal-company-weighted stock market prices decline by a huge 58% 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 24, 2014, the average stock market prices of these same 18 Louisiana Companies have increased by 291%. 

Below here  are the stock market prices of each of these 18 Louisiana Companies on October 24, 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
Louisiana Company	HQs		10-24-14	3-6-09	10-24-14	8-18-14	3-6-09	10-24-14
			$s	$s	$s
Stone Energy Corp	Lafayette	LA	24.04	1.81	46.91	1228%	-96%	-49%
Lamar Advertising	Baton Rouge	LA	50.14	5.59	48.07	797%	-88%	4%
H&E Equipment Services	Baton Rouge	LA	37.03	4.95	18.88	648%	-74%	96%
Globalstar	Covington	LA	2.26	0.37	8.00	511%	-95%	-72%
Pool Corp	Covington	LA	57.78	11.59	19.83	399%	-42%	191%
Albemarle	Baton Rouge	LA	57.20	16.17	41.25	254%	-61%	39%
Gulf Island Fabrication	Houma	LA	18.51	5.44	31.71	240%	-83%	-42%
PHI Inc	Lafayette	LA	40.21	13.03	31.60	209%	-59%	27%
Amerisafe Inc	DeRidder	LA	41.08	13.80	15.51	198%	-11%	165%
Teche Holding Co	New Iberia	LA	71.82	26.70	37.75	169%	-29%	90%
Hornbeck Offshore Services	Covington	LA	28.08	10.73	44.95	162%	-76%	-38%
PetroQuest Energy Inc	Lafayette	LA	4.27	1.80	14.30	137%	-87%	-70%
Midsouth Bancorp	Lafayette	LA	18.85	8.25	23.30	128%	-65%	-19%
IberiaBank	Lafayette	LA	64.13	38.39	46.75	67%	-18%	37%
CenturyLink	Monroe	LA	39.93	24.09	41.46	66%	-42%	-4%
LHC Group	Lafayette	LA	23.74	17.16	24.98	38%	-31%	-5%
Tidewater	New Orleans	LA	35.54	32.07	54.86	11%	-42%	-35%
Amedisys	Baton Rouge	LA	21.80	26.41	48.52	-17%	-46%	-55%
Average % Change all 18 Louisiana Companies						291%	-58%	15%