Michigan Company Stock Market Prices Up 761% Since March 6, 2009.....a Huge Spike Up in the Past Week.....Michigan State Unemployment Rate Drops Sharply From 14.1% in October 2009 to 7.2% in September 2014

Since the Michigan US Senate Race is very competitive, I think it would be helpful to update how Michigan 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, both Michigan US Senators were Democrats and Democratic Senate candidate Gary Peters was serving Michigan in the US House.

I found 44 Michigan 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.

I also included 3 Michigan Companies which were sold in 2014 and 1 Michigan Company whose common stock first started trading in 2008.  That makes a total of 48 Michigan 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 48 Michigan Companies had their average equal-company-weighted stock market prices decline by a massive 65% 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 48 Michigan Companies have increased by a phenomenal 765%, the second highest percentage increase of all US States, with only Indiana being higher.  This 765% increase is a huge step up in percentage increase from that of just a week ago, where the average increase was a much lower 741% from March 6, 2009 to October 17, 2014.   

Below here are the stock market prices of each of these 48 Michigan 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
Michigan Company	HQs		10-24-14	3-6-09	10-24-14	8-18-14	3-6-09	10-24-14
			$s	$s	$s
TRW Automotive	Livonia	MI	100.75	1.60	20.90	6197%	-92%	382%
American Axle	Detroit	MI	17.71	0.40	18.62	4328%	-98%	-5%
La-Z-Boy	Monroe	MI	21.83	0.60	7.93	3538%	-92%	175%
Valassis Communications	Livonia	MI	34.02	1.28	11.69	2558%	-89%	191%
TriMas Corp	Bloomfield Hills	MI	27.02	1.04	10.59	2498%	-90%	155%
Meritor Inc	Troy	MI	10.95	0.45	11.73	2333%	-96%	-7%
Gentherm	Northville	MI	42.39	2.29	21.14	1751%	-89%	101%
Domino's Pizza	Ann Arbor	MI	87.68	5.88	13.23	1391%	-56%	563%
Penske Automotive Group	Bloomfield Hills	MI	42.99	5.03	17.46	755%	-71%	146%
Perrigo	Allegan	MI	155.15	18.94	33.98	719%	-44%	357%
Ford Motor	Dearborn	MI	13.78	1.70	6.73	711%	-75%	105%
Whirlpool	Benton Harbor	MI	158.62	20.19	81.63	686%	-75%	94%
Credit Acceptance Corp	Southfield	MI	135.39	18.19	20.67	644%	-12%	555%
BorgWarner	Auburn Hills	MI	56.30	7.59	24.21	642%	-69%	133%
Sun Communities	Southfield	MI	54.18	7.71	21.07	603%	-63%	157%
Dow Chemical	Midland	MI	48.21	7.11	39.42	578%	-82%	22%
Mercantile Bank	Grand Rapids	MI	19.08	3.17	15.50	502%	-80%	23%
Masco	Taylor	MI	23.08	3.90	21.61	492%	-82%	7%
Taubman Centers	Bloomfield Hills	MI	76.85	13.56	49.19	467%	-72%	56%
Neogen	Lansing	MI	42.39	8.40	11.80	405%	-29%	259%
Federal-Mogul	Southfield	MI	14.65	2.96	20.25	395%	-85%	-28%
Firstbank	Alma	MI	21.59	4.50	13.82	380%	-67%	56%
Syntel	Troy	MI	80.50	18.11	38.52	345%	-53%	109%
Gentex	Zeeland	MI	31.65	7.21	17.77	339%	-59%	78%
Ramco-Gershenson Properties Trust	Farmington Hills	MI	16.88	3.88	21.37	335%	-82%	-21%
Steelcase	Grand Rapids	MI	16.91	3.89	15.87	335%	-75%	7%
Wolverine World Wide	Rockford	MI	26.49	6.69	12.26	296%	-45%	116%
Herman Miller	Zeeland	MI	31.00	8.29	32.39	274%	-74%	-4%
MBT Financial	Monroe	MI	4.83	1.40	8.82	245%	-84%	-45%
Con-Way	Ann Arbor	MI	43.91	13.36	41.54	229%	-68%	6%
Rockwell Medical	Wixom	MI	9.36	2.89	7.18	224%	-60%	30%
Agree Realty	Farmington Hills	MI	29.53	10.50	30.10	181%	-65%	-2%
Kelly Services	Troy	MI	16.67	6.30	18.66	165%	-66%	-11%
Stryker	Kalamazoo	MI	84.22	32.01	74.72	163%	-57%	13%
Macatawa Bank	Holland	MI	5.01	1.96	8.59	156%	-77%	-42%
PulteGroup	Bloomfield Hills	MI	19.54	7.90	10.54	147%	-25%	85%
Universal Forest Products	Grand Rapids	MI	48.87	19.82	29.46	147%	-33%	66%
Universal Truckload Services	Warren	MI	25.68	11.26	19.16	128%	-41%	34%
Spartan Motors	Charlotte	MI	5.03	2.44	7.64	106%	-68%	-34%
Chemical Financial	Midland	MI	27.97	15.86	23.79	76%	-33%	18%
Compuware	Detroit	MI	10.04	5.79	8.88	73%	-35%	13%
United Bancorp	Ann Arbor	MI	12.10	7.25	17.00	67%	-57%	-29%
Kellogg	Battle Creek	MI	61.94	37.16	52.43	67%	-29%	18%
Rofin-Sinar Technologies	Plymouth	MI	21.40	13.05	48.11	64%	-73%	-56%
SpartanNash	Grand Rapids	MI	20.36	14.12	22.85	44%	-38%	-11%
Independent Bank	Ionia	MI	12.20	9.60	95.00	27%	-90%	-87%
Meadowbrook Insurance Group	Southfield	MI	6.20	5.46	9.41	14%	-42%	-34%
Flagstar Bancorp	Troy	MI	15.04	62.00	697.00	-76%	-91%	-98%
Average % Change all 48						765%	-65%	75%

Details to come.