In this first post I will be addressing the Southeast Florida Area Companies Stock Market Prices.
I found 36 Southeast Florida Area Headquartered Companies 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 20, 2015.
The historical stock prices of these companies were obtained from the following two excellent internet resources.... Google Finance and MarketWatch Big Charts.
These 38 Southeast Florida Area Companies had their equal-company weighted average stock market prices decline by a huge 53% 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 five years and eleven and a half months since March 6, 2009 through the most recent date February 20, 2015, the average stock market prices of these same 38 Southeast Florida Area Companies have increased by an exceptional 602%.
There has been something upwardly explosive happening with the Greater Southeast Florida Area Companies Stock Market Prices in the most recent five years and eleven and a half months, and among others, President Obama, Ben Bernanke, Janet Yellen, US Florida Senators Bill Nelson and Marco Rubio, Florida Governor Rick Scott, all Area Mayors, Debbie Wasserman Schultz and also all other Greater Southeast Florida Area members in the US Congress as well as in the Florida State Legislature have all undoubtedly helped here.
Below here are the stock market prices of each of these 38 Southeast Florida Area Companies on February 20, 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 | |||
| City | Price | Price | Price | to | to | to | ||
| Southeast Florida Company | HQs | 2-20-15 | 3-6-09 | 12-31-07 | 2-20-15 | 3-6-09 | 2-20-15 | |
| $ | $ | $ | ||||||
| BFC Financial | Ft Lauderdale | FL | 3.20 | 0.11 | 0.17 | 2809% | -35% | 1782% |
| Opko Health | Miami | FL | 14.20 | 0.80 | 2.85 | 1675% | -72% | 398% |
| Federated National Holding | Sunrise | FL | 28.42 | 1.72 | 13.44 | 1552% | -87% | 111% |
| Office Depot | Boca Raton | FL | 9.49 | 0.68 | 13.91 | 1296% | -95% | -32% |
| B/E Aerospace | Wellington | FL | 64.54 | 4.71 | 38.30 | 1269% | -88% | 69% |
| Royal Caribbean Cruises | Miami | FL | 76.17 | 5.93 | 42.44 | 1184% | -86% | 79% |
| Ultimate Software Group | Weston | FL | 168.88 | 13.19 | 31.47 | 1180% | -58% | 437% |
| Jarden | Boca Raton | FL | 53.08 | 4.28 | 10.49 | 1141% | -59% | 406% |
| ERBA Diagnostics | Miami | FL | 3.49 | 0.32 | 0.49 | 991% | -35% | 612% |
| Dycom | Palm Beach Gardens | FL | 37.98 | 3.72 | 26.65 | 921% | -86% | 43% |
| Ladenburg Thalmann Fincl Svcs | Miami | FL | 3.96 | 0.41 | 2.12 | 866% | -81% | 87% |
| Lennar | Miami | FL | 50.32 | 6.08 | 17.89 | 728% | -66% | 181% |
| Interval Leisure Group | Miami | FL | 25.84 | 3.67 | 13.20 | 604% | -72% | 96% |
| Universal Insurance Holdings | Fort Lauderdale | FL | 23.16 | 3.44 | 7.41 | 573% | -54% | 213% |
| HEICO | Hollywood | FL | 62.63 | 9.40 | 22.32 | 567% | -58% | 181% |
| AutoNation | Fort Lauderdale | FL | 62.63 | 9.72 | 15.66 | 544% | -38% | 300% |
| SBA Communications | Boca Raton | FL | 121.25 | 19.99 | 33.84 | 507% | -41% | 258% |
| Perry Ellis Intl | Miami | FL | 23.03 | 3.94 | 15.38 | 485% | -74% | 50% |
| MEDNAX | Sunrise | FL | 71.47 | 13.62 | 34.08 | 425% | -60% | 110% |
| Ryder System | Miami | FL | 94.76 | 19.41 | 47.01 | 388% | -59% | 102% |
| Stonegate Bank | Fort Lauderdale | FL | 28.33 | 6.00 | 11.00 | 372% | -45% | 158% |
| Elizabeth Arden | Miramar | FL | 16.75 | 4.29 | 20.35 | 290% | -79% | -18% |
| Watsco | Coconut Grove | FL | 116.78 | 31.95 | 36.76 | 266% | -13% | 218% |
| The GEO Group | Boca Raton | FL | 42.76 | 11.75 | 28.00 | 264% | -58% | 53% |
| Hackett Group | Miami | FL | 7.93 | 2.25 | 4.84 | 252% | -54% | 64% |
| Citrix Systems | Ft Lauderdale | FL | 64.92 | 21.76 | 38.01 | 198% | -43% | 71% |
| National Beverage | Ft Lauderdale | FL | 22.50 | 7.77 | 8.04 | 190% | -3% | 180% |
| Equity One | North Miami Beach | FL | 26.99 | 9.74 | 23.03 | 177% | -58% | 17% |
| Catalyst Pharmaceutical Partners | Coral Gables | FL | 3.40 | 1.25 | 3.45 | 172% | -64% | -1% |
| Vector Group | Miami | FL | 23.20 | 9.21 | 14.97 | 152% | -38% | 55% |
| Carnival | Miami | FL | 43.27 | 17.30 | 44.49 | 150% | -61% | -3% |
| Steiner Leisure | Coral Gables | FL | 47.57 | 19.34 | 44.16 | 146% | -56% | 8% |
| Fresh Del Monte Produce | Coral Gables | FL | 34.57 | 15.49 | 33.58 | 123% | -54% | 3% |
| Cross Country Healthcare | Boca Raton | FL | 12.19 | 5.47 | 14.24 | 123% | -62% | -14% |
| World Fuel Services | Miami | FL | 54.40 | 26.45 | 29.03 | 106% | -9% | 87% |
| MasTec | Coral Gables | FL | 20.64 | 10.31 | 10.17 | 100% | 1% | 103% |
| Seacor Holdings | Ft Lauderdale | FL | 73.98 | 42.59 | 71.95 | 74% | -41% | 3% |
| PetMed Express | Pompano Beach | FL | 15.36 | 13.66 | 12.10 | 12% | 13% | 27% |
| Average % Change all 38 | 602% | -53% | 171% |
