New Hampshire Company Stock Market Prices Up 420% Since March 6, 2009.....New Hampshire State Unemployment Rate Drops Sharply to Only 4.3% in September 2014

Since there is an important upcoming New Hampshire US Senate race where very experienced, hugely effective, former New Hampshire Governor Jeanne Shaheen is running and also an upcoming New Hampshire Governor's race, I think it would be helpful to update how New Hampshire 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, Jeanne Shaheen was a New Hampshire US Senator.

I found 8 New Hampshire 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 8 New Hampshire Companies had their average equal-company-weighted stock market prices decline by a massive 60% 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 8 New Hampshire Companies have increased by an exceptional 420%.  And all 8 Companies had their stock price more than double.  This 420% increase is a nice step up in percentage increase from that of just a week ago, where the average increase was a lower 407% from March 6, 2009 to October 17, 2014.   

Below here are the stock market prices of each of these 8 New Hampshire 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
New Hampshire Company	HQs		10-24-14	3-6-09	10-24-14	8-18-14	3-6-09	10-24-14
			$s	$s	$s
Standex Intl	Salem	NH	77.79	8.55	17.45	810%	-51%	346%
PC Connection	Merrimack	NH	22.29	3.07	11.35	626%	-73%	96%
Albany Intl	Rochester	NH	35.09	5.15	37.10	581%	-86%	-5%
Bottomline Technologies	Portsmouth	NH	28.88	5.07	14.00	470%	-64%	106%
Centrix Bank & Trust	Bedford	NH	41.10	9.20	14.25	347%	-35%	188%
White Mountains Insurance	Hanover	NH	637.26	165.00	514.05	286%	-68%	24%
New Hampshire Thrift Bancshares	Newport	NH	15.49	6.51	12.40	138%	-48%	25%
iCAD	Nashua	NH	9.00	4.45	10.10	102%	-56%	-11%
Average % Change all 8 New Hampshire Companies						420%	-60%	96%

Details to come.