Saturday, February 28, 2015

Massachusetts Health Care and Technology Companies Stock Market Prices Up 473% Since March 6, 2009 ..... a Massive Upward Acceleration From 392% Growth Reported Only Four Months Ago

Since Elizabeth Warren is trying to decide whether to run for US President in 2016, I think it would be helpful to research just how her home state of Massachusetts has been doing since the 2008 Financial Meltdown.  She has worked very hard to help Massachusetts and the entire country recover from this horrific financial mess.

Let me focus on what Massachusetts is known for.....its many Health Care & Technology Companies..... and how these Companies that have been around for awhile have done on the stock market price front.

I found 74 Massachusetts Headquartered Companies in the Technology and Health Care Industries in the superb Google Finance website and from SEC filings with current Total Market Capitalizations of at least $100 mil and which also had their common stocks trading on each of the following three dates:
  • On December 31, 2007 before the financial meltdown hit
  • On March 6, 2009, 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 February 27, 2015.
I also included 5 Massachusetts Technology and Health Care Companies which were sold since 2014.  That makes a total of 79 Massachusetts Technology and Health Care 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 79 Massachusetts Technology and Health Care Companies had their equal-company weighted average stock market prices decline by a huge 54% from December 31, 2007 before the 2008 Financial Meltdown hit to March 6, 2009, 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 nearly six years since March 6, 2009 through the most recent date February 27, 2015, the average stock market prices of these same 79 Massachusetts Technology and Health Care Companies have increased by a very impressive 473%.

Below here are the stock market prices of each of these 79 Massachusetts Technology and Health Care Companies on February 27, 2015, 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
Massachusetts Company HQs
2-27-15 3-6-09 12-31-07 2-27-15 3-6-09 2-27-15



$s $s $s


Technology







Entegris Billerica MA      13.41       0.64       8.63 1995% -93% 55%
Xcerra Norwood MA       9.08       0.57       9.54 1493% -94% -5%
Axcelis Technologies Beverly MA       2.80       0.20       4.60 1300% -96% -39%
Monotype Imaging Holdings Woburn MA      32.01       2.43      15.17 1217% -84% 111%
IPG Photonics Oxford MA      95.90       7.36      19.99 1203% -63% 380%
Skyworks Solutions Wobum MA      87.75       6.94       8.50 1164% -18% 932%
M/A-Com Technology Solutions Lowell MA      33.72       2.85      13.21 1083% -78% 155%
Cognex Natick MA      44.69       4.98      11.91 798% -58% 275%
GSI Group Bedford MA      13.15       1.65      27.72 697% -94% -53%
Sapient Boston MA      25.00       3.45       8.81 625% -61% 184%
Virtusa Westborough MA      39.36       5.75      17.33 585% -67% 127%
Datawatch Chelmsford MA       6.65       1.07       5.92 521% -82% 12%
Teradyne North Reading MA      19.32       3.50      10.34 452% -66% 87%
Bruker Billerica MA      19.03       3.82       7.51 398% -49% 153%
athenahealth Watertown MA    127.07      26.66      36.00 377% -26% 253%
PTC Inc Needham MA      34.66       7.40      17.85 368% -59% 94%
TechTarget Newton MA      12.14       2.65      14.78 358% -82% -18%
iRobot Bedford MA      32.85       7.21      18.08 356% -60% 82%
Atlantic Tele-Network Beverly MA      68.83      15.43      33.78 346% -54% 104%
Akamai Technologies Cambridge MA      69.51      16.36      34.60 325% -53% 101%
Aspen Technology Burlington MA      38.61       9.72      16.22 297% -40% 138%
Waters Corp Milford MA    120.38      33.24      48.97 262% -32% 146%
NetScout Systems Westford MA      40.32      11.42      12.77 253% -11% 216%
Brooks Automation Chelmsford MA      12.00       3.44      13.21 249% -74% -9%
Analogic Corp Peabody MA      86.66      27.00      56.14 221% -52% 54%
Vicor Andover MA      13.18       4.13      15.59 219% -74% -15%
Analog Devices Norwood  MA      58.54      18.48      31.70 217% -42% 85%
EMC Corp Hopkinton MA      28.94       9.93      18.53 191% -46% 56%
MKS Instruments Andover MA      35.36      12.14      22.58 191% -46% 57%
Sonus Networks Westford MA      17.06       5.95      29.15 187% -80% -41%
Pegasystems Cambridge MA      19.79       7.04       5.97 181% 18% 232%
Mercury Systems Chelmsford MA      13.98       5.05      16.11 177% -69% -13%
Kopin Westboro MA       4.33       1.57       3.16 176% -50% 37%
Progress Software Bedford MA      27.34      10.03      22.45 173% -55% 22%
Hittite Microwave Chelmsford MA      78.00      28.70      47.76 172% -40% 63%
Aware Inc Bedford MA       4.52       1.99       4.20 127% -53% 8%
Avid Technology Burlington MA      15.68       8.67      28.34 81% -69% -45%
Nuance Communications Burlington MA      14.30       7.99      18.68 79% -57% -23%
SeaChange Intl Acton MA       7.55       4.32       7.23 75% -40% 4%









Average % Change all 39 Massachusetts Technology



492% -58% 102%









Health Care







Cellceutix Beverly MA       3.68       0.20       0.50 1740% -60% 636%
ZIOPHARM Oncology Boston MA      11.26       0.70       3.54 1509% -80% 218%
Synageva BioPharma Lexington MA      98.73       6.70      34.90 1374% -81% 183%
ABIOMED Danvers MA      60.79       4.99      15.54 1118% -68% 291%
Anika Therapeutics Bedford MA      39.92       3.55      14.55 1025% -76% 174%
Insulet Bedford MA      31.73       3.36      23.48 844% -86% 35%
Biogen Idec Cambridge MA    409.59      44.23      56.92 826% -22% 620%
Idenix Pharmaceuticals Cambridge MA      24.50       2.67       2.70 818% -1% 807%
PAREXEL Intl Waltham MA      64.46       7.95      24.15 711% -67% 167%
Nxstage Medical Lawrence MA      17.18       2.30      15.17 647% -85% 13%
Dyax Burlington MA      15.11       2.17       3.66 596% -41% 313%
Cubist Pharmaceuticals Lexington MA    102.00      14.67      20.51 595% -28% 397%
Repligen Waltham MA      25.71       3.73       6.55 589% -43% 293%
pSivida Watertown MA       4.40       0.64       3.16 588% -80% 39%
Ariad Pharmaceuticals Cambridge MA       8.13       1.20       4.25 578% -72% 91%
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Cambridge MA    101.53      15.79      29.08 543% -46% 249%
Cynosure Westford MA      30.42       4.93      26.46 517% -81% 15%
Vertex Pharmaceuticals Cambridge MA    119.43      27.77      23.23 330% 20% 414%
Covidien plc Mansfield MA    107.45      25.48      40.29 322% -37% 167%
PerkinElmer Waltham MA      47.00      11.52      26.02 308% -56% 81%
LeMaitre Vascular Burlington MA       7.62       1.96       6.20 289% -68% 23%
Thermo Fisher Scientific Waltham MA    130.00      34.16      57.68 281% -41% 125%
Sarepta Therapeutics Cambridge MA      13.90       3.78       8.46 268% -55% 64%
Hologic Bedford MA      32.38       9.70      34.32 234% -72% -6%
Five Star Quality Care Newton MA       3.64       1.14       8.30 219% -86% -56%
Charles River Laboratories Wilmington MA      76.67      25.12      65.80 205% -62% 17%
Harvard Bioscience Holliston MA       5.46       1.95       3.47 180% -44% 57%
Agenus Lexington MA       4.90       1.80      12.24 172% -85% -60%
Boston Scientific Natick MA      16.90       6.33      11.63 167% -46% 45%
Curis Lexington MA       3.08       1.18       0.98 161% 20% 214%
Alere Waltham MA      45.47      21.97      56.18 107% -61% -19%
AMAG Pharmaceuticals Lexington MA      49.23      24.62      60.13 100% -59% -18%
Infinity Pharmaceuticals Cambridge MA      15.20       8.00       9.55 90% -16% 59%
Momenta Pharmaceuticals Cambridge MA      13.65       7.44       7.14 83% 4% 91%
Haemonetics Braintree MA      44.46      26.69      31.51 67% -15% 41%
ImmunoGen Waltham MA       7.60       4.91       4.15 55% 18% 83%
Synta Pharmaceuticals Lexington MA       2.40       2.38       6.70 1% -64% -64%
Idera Pharmaceuticals Cambridge MA       4.87       5.16      13.10 -6% -61% -63%
Ocata Therapeutics Marlborough MA       7.22      11.00      17.00 -34% -35% -58%
Arqule Woburn MA       1.88       3.00       5.80 -37% -48% -68%









Average % Change all 40 Massachusetts Health Care



454% -49% 140%









Average % Change all 79 Massachusetts Technology & Health Care


473% -54% 121%