Michigan Company Stock Market Prices Up 801% Since March 6, 2009, an Explosive Spike Up in Just the Past Two Weeks..... Michigan Company Audited Profits Were $91 Bil in 3 Years 2011 Through 2013 vs Losses of $109 Bil in 3 Years 2007 Through 2009..... Michigan 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 31, 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 31, 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 31, 2014, the average stock market prices of these same 48 Michigan Companies have increased by a phenomenal 801%, the second highest percentage increase of all US States, with only Indiana being higher.

This 801% Michigan Company average stock market price increase is a massive step up in percentage increase from that of just two weeks ago, where the average increase was a much lower 741% from March 6, 2009 to October 17, 2014.   

Six of these 48 Michigan Companies had their stock market prices increase by more than 24 times since March 6, 2009.

Below here are the stock market prices of each of these 48 Michigan 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
			Price	Price	Price	to	to	to
Michigan Company	HQs		10-31-14	3-6-09	12-31-07	10-31-14	3-6-09	10-31-14
			$s	$s	$s
TRW Automotive	Livonia	MI	101.35	1.60	20.90	6234%	-92%	385%
American Axle	Detroit	MI	19.33	0.40	18.62	4733%	-98%	4%
La-Z-Boy	Monroe	MI	22.86	0.60	7.93	3710%	-92%	188%
TriMas Corp	Bloomfield Hills	MI	31.66	1.04	10.59	2944%	-90%	199%
Valassis Communications	Livonia	MI	34.02	1.28	11.69	2558%	-89%	191%
Meritor Inc	Troy	MI	11.49	0.45	11.73	2453%	-96%	-2%
Gentherm	Northville	MI	41.70	2.29	21.14	1721%	-89%	97%
Domino's Pizza	Ann Arbor	MI	88.79	5.88	13.23	1410%	-56%	571%
Penske Automotive Group	Bloomfield Hills	MI	45.24	5.03	17.46	799%	-71%	159%
Perrigo	Allegan	MI	161.45	18.94	33.98	752%	-44%	375%
Whirlpool	Benton Harbor	MI	172.05	20.19	81.63	752%	-75%	111%
Ford Motor	Dearborn	MI	14.09	1.70	6.73	729%	-75%	109%
Credit Acceptance Corp	Southfield	MI	147.56	18.19	20.67	711%	-12%	614%
Sun Communities	Southfield	MI	57.97	7.71	21.07	652%	-63%	175%
BorgWarner	Auburn Hills	MI	57.02	7.59	24.21	651%	-69%	136%
Dow Chemical	Midland	MI	49.40	7.11	39.42	595%	-82%	25%
Mercantile Bank	Grand Rapids	MI	19.73	3.17	15.50	522%	-80%	27%
Masco	Taylor	MI	22.07	3.90	21.61	466%	-82%	2%
Taubman Centers	Bloomfield Hills	MI	76.05	13.56	49.19	461%	-72%	55%
Federal-Mogul	Southfield	MI	15.61	2.96	20.25	427%	-85%	-23%
Neogen	Lansing	MI	43.90	8.40	11.80	423%	-29%	272%
Firstbank	Alma	MI	21.59	4.50	13.82	380%	-67%	56%
Syntel	Troy	MI	86.61	18.11	38.52	378%	-53%	125%
Steelcase	Grand Rapids	MI	17.72	3.89	15.87	356%	-75%	12%
Gentex	Zeeland	MI	32.74	7.21	17.77	354%	-59%	84%
Ramco-Gershenson Properties Trust	Farmington Hills	MI	17.48	3.88	21.37	351%	-82%	-18%
Wolverine World Wide	Rockford	MI	27.14	6.69	12.26	306%	-45%	121%
Herman Miller	Zeeland	MI	32.00	8.29	32.39	286%	-74%	-1%
MBT Financial	Monroe	MI	4.65	1.40	8.82	232%	-84%	-47%
Con-Way	Ann Arbor	MI	43.37	13.36	41.54	225%	-68%	4%
Rockwell Medical	Wixom	MI	8.72	2.89	7.18	202%	-60%	21%
Agree Realty	Farmington Hills	MI	30.61	10.50	30.10	192%	-65%	2%
Kelly Services	Troy	MI	17.63	6.30	18.66	180%	-66%	-6%
Stryker	Kalamazoo	MI	87.53	32.01	74.72	173%	-57%	17%
Macatawa Bank	Holland	MI	5.21	1.96	8.59	166%	-77%	-39%
Universal Forest Products	Grand Rapids	MI	49.97	19.82	29.46	152%	-33%	70%
PulteGroup	Bloomfield Hills	MI	19.19	7.90	10.54	143%	-25%	82%
Universal Truckload Services	Warren	MI	26.32	11.26	19.16	134%	-41%	37%
Spartan Motors	Charlotte	MI	5.69	2.44	7.64	133%	-68%	-26%
Chemical Financial	Midland	MI	29.78	15.86	23.79	88%	-33%	25%
Compuware	Detroit	MI	10.15	5.79	8.88	75%	-35%	14%
Kellogg	Battle Creek	MI	63.96	37.16	52.43	72%	-29%	22%
Rofin-Sinar Technologies	Plymouth	MI	22.39	13.05	48.11	72%	-73%	-53%
United Bancorp	Ann Arbor	MI	12.10	7.25	17.00	67%	-57%	-29%
SpartanNash	Grand Rapids	MI	22.41	14.12	22.85	59%	-38%	-2%
Independent Bank	Ionia	MI	12.07	9.60	95.00	26%	-90%	-87%
Meadowbrook Insurance Group	Southfield	MI	6.37	5.46	9.41	17%	-42%	-32%
Flagstar Bancorp	Troy	MI	15.72	62.00	697.00	-75%	-91%	-98%
Average % Change all 48						801%	-65%	82%

There were 34 Michigan Companies with Stock Market Capitalizations now of at least $1 bil each and also with annual audited financial statements filed with the SEC in all years from 2008 through 2013.

The Total Audited Net Income from Continuing Operations for the 3 Years 2013, 2012 and 2011 Combined of these 34 Michigan Companies was a massive $91.4 bil, a massive Earnings Improvement of $200 bil from the comparable Total Audited Losses for the 3 years 2009, 2008 and 2007 Combined of $108.6 bil for these same 34 Michigan Companies.

This miraculous earnings recovery for these 34 Michigan Companies from 2007 to the most recent 2013 occurred when both Michigan US Senators were Democrats, when the Democrats controlled the US Senate, when President Obama was in office and when there were very effective US Fed Leaders.

Below here are the Audited Net Income (Loss) From Continuing Operations for each of these 34 Michigan Companies for each of the six years 2013, 2012, 2011, 2009, 2008 and 2007, along with the related Net Income (Loss) Percentage Changes:

			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
Michigan Company	HQs	FYE	(Loss)	(Loss)	(Loss)	(Loss)	(Loss)	(Loss)
			$ mils	$ mils	$ mils	$ mils	$ mils	$ mils
Ford Motor	Dearborn	Dec 13	7,148	5,664	20,222	2,712	(14,833)	(2,819)
General Motors	Detroit	Dec 13	5,331	6,136	9,287	(22,938)	(31,051)	(42,685)
Dow Chemical	Midland	Dec 13	4,816	1,100	2,784	566	626	2,962
PulteGroup	Bloomfield Hills	Dec 13	2,620	206	(210)	(1,183)	(1,473)	(2,274)
Kellogg	Battle Creek	Dec 13	1,808	961	864	1,208	1,146	1,102
Delphi Automotive PLC	Troy	Dec 13	1,301	1,160	1,223	(822)	(1,984)	(1,692)
TRW Automotive	Livonia	Dec 13	1,007	1,041	1,195	73	(764)	109
Stryker	Kalamazoo	Dec 13	1,006	1,298	1,345	1,107	1,148	987
Whirlpool	Benton Harbor	Dec 13	849	425	408	354	447	669
BorgWarner	Auburn Hills	Dec 13	651	522	571	36	(19)	317
Ally Financial	Detroit	Dec 13	416	1,370	(219)	(3,370)	4,863	(1,950)
Masco	Taylor	Dec 13	323	(18)	(352)	(102)	(327)	539
Credit Acceptance Corp	Southfield	Dec 13	253	220	188	146	67	54
Penske Automotive Group	Bloomfield Hills	Dec 13	251	196	176	84	(411)	121
Gentex	Zeeland	Dec 13	223	169	165	65	62	122
Syntel	Troy	Dec 13	220	186	123	118	87	63
Perrigo	Allegan	Jun 14	205	442	393	224	141	140
Taubman Centers	Bloomfield Hills	Dec 13	189	158	141	(79)	(8)	116
Domino's Pizza	Ann Arbor	Dec 13	143	112	105	38	54	80
Valassis Communications	Livonia	Dec 12	119	113	385	67	(210)	52
Wolverine World Wide	Rockford	Dec 13	101	81	123	62	96	93
Federal-Mogul	Southfield	Dec 13	101	(91)	(56)	(33)	(465)	1,408
Con-Way	Ann Arbor	Dec 13	99	105	88	(108)	65	154
American Axle	Detroit	Dec 13	95	367	137	(253)	(1,225)	37
Steelcase	Grand Rapids	Feb 14	88	39	57	(14)	(12)	133
TriMas Corp	Bloomfield Hills	Dec 13	79	36	51	13	(124)	(162)
La-Z-Boy	Monroe	Apr 14	60	47	84	32	(122)	(8)
Compuware	Detroit	Mar 14	38	25	63	141	140	134
Gentherm	Northville	Dec 13	35	24	11	0	4	7
Neogen	Lansing	May 14	28	27	22	18	14	12
Sun Communities	Southfield	Dec 13	20	8	(1)	(7)	(28)	(18)
Ramco-Gershenson Properties Trust	Farmington Hills	Dec 13	8	7	(29)	13	27	45
Meritor Inc	Troy	Sep 13	(20)	63	80	12	(738)	(46)
Herman Miller	Zeeland	May 14	(22)	68	75	28	68	152
Total all 34 Michigan Companies			29,589	22,267	39,499	(21,792)	(44,739)	(42,046)
Annual Earnings (Losses)
....2013, 2012 and 2011 Combined			91,355
....2009, 2008 and 2007 Combined			(108,577)

And the link below here has some research I performed on Michigan Non-Profit Hospitals.

Gary Peters Has Been Dead on On Health Care All Along the Way