Wuerth While Wily Wakenings: All San Francisco/Silicon Companies Stock Market Prices Up 697% Since March 6, 2009 vs Up 544% Only 4 1/2 Months Ago ..... Do You Think the San Francisco/Silicon Valley Area Companies Might Like Ben Bernanke and Janet Yellen?

Former US Fed Chair Ben Bernanke will be delivering a key economic presentation at the University of Southern Indiana in Evansville, Indiana on March 23, 2015. It is open to the public and free of charge.

Thus, as a backdrop for this upcoming speech and continuing a much deserved tribute to Bernanke's key role in helping the US avoid a Deep, Prolonged Financial Depression, I think it would be helpful to update just what has been going on with Stock Market Prices for Companies in each US State since March 6, 2009, the lowest point for the overall US Stock Market resulting from the aftershocks of the horrific late 2008 US Financial Meltdown, through the most recent date March 20, 2015......a roughly six year period of time.

Long-term Audited Earnings From Continuing Operations Under US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) drive Long-Term Changes in Stock Market Prices. These Company Earnings crashed with the late 2008 US Financial Meltdown and thus the linked Stock Market Prices of the related Companies also crashed.

But since the 2008 US Financial Meltdown, these Earnings have been consistently exceptional and thus the Stock Market Prices of the related Companies have also consistently exploded upwardly in the past six years.

This is the dilemma faced by the current US Fed ..... raise US interest rates or continue former US Fed Chair Ben Bernanke's economic policies which have continued to spur Company Earnings and thus also Company Stock Market Prices.

I think the current US Fed should tweak Bernanke's economic policies some to try to more effectively deal with income and wealth inequality, but why in the world would you want to alter them significantly since they have been so incredibly successful?

And the US Congress, and frankly also US Companies, just have to do a much better job addressing income and wealth inequality.

San Francisco/Silicon Valley Area Companies stock market prices have been on absolute fire in the past 4 1/2 months. They experienced spectacular average stock market price growth of 697% for the 6 years since March 6, 2009 through the most recent date March 20, 2015. This average growth since March 6, 2009 was a substantially lower but still very impressive 544% only 4 1/2 months ago.

Below here are the 193 San Francisco/Silicon Valley Area Headquartered Companies with Stock Market Caps now of at least $100 mil and which have had their common stocks trading from December 31, 2007, or early in 2008 for companies first going public then, through the most recent date March 20, 2015, or the date the Companies were sold, if they were sold since the beginning of 2014.

						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
California Company	HQs		3-20-15	3-6-09	12-31-07	3-20-15	3-6-09	3-20-15
			$s	$s	$s
San Francisco/Silicon Valley Area
…..Technology
Sanmina	San Jose	SF	24.90	1.20	10.92	1975%	-89%	128%
PDF Solutions	San Jose	SF	18.26	0.99	9.01	1744%	-89%	103%
Seagate Technology	Cupertino	SF	56.51	3.11	25.50	1717%	-88%	122%
8x8 Inc	San Jose	SF	8.17	0.46	0.89	1676%	-48%	818%
iGATE	Fremont	SF	43.67	2.56	7.95	1606%	-68%	449%
Nanometrics	Milpitas	SF	18.37	1.11	9.86	1555%	-89%	86%
Pixelworks	San Jose	SF	5.06	0.37	2.28	1268%	-84%	122%
Integrated Silicon Solution	Milpitas	SF	18.86	1.38	6.62	1267%	-79%	185%
NetSuite	San Mateo	SF	95.93	8.15	39.18	1077%	-79%	145%
Netflix	Los Gatos	SF	428.30	38.18	26.62	1022%	43%	1509%
SanDisk	Milpitas	SF	87.07	7.79	33.17	1018%	-77%	162%
Alliance Fiber Optic Products	Sunnyvale	SF	17.41	1.58	5.05	1004%	-69%	245%
Glu Mobile	San Francisco	SF	4.95	0.46	5.22	976%	-91%	-5%
Finisar	Sunnyvale	SF	23.24	2.24	11.60	938%	-81%	100%
Cepheid	Sunnyvale	SF	58.39	5.64	8.50	935%	-34%	587%
Apple	Cupertino	SF	125.90	12.19	28.30	933%	-57%	345%
Mattson Technology	Fremont	SF	3.99	0.42	8.56	850%	-95%	-53%
Salesforce.com	San Francisco	SF	67.69	7.52	15.67	800%	-52%	332%
VeriFone Systems	San Jose	SF	36.08	4.02	23.25	798%	-83%	55%
Aruba Networks	Sunnyvale	SF	24.46	2.76	14.91	786%	-81%	64%
Fair Isaac	San Jose	SF	88.05	10.09	32.15	773%	-69%	174%
Ultra Clean Holdings	Hayward	SF	7.80	0.97	12.20	704%	-92%	-36%
Super Micro Computer	San Jose	SF	37.16	4.84	7.67	668%	-37%	384%
Cavium	San Jose	SF	73.81	10.59	23.02	597%	-54%	221%
Affymetrix	Santa Clara	SF	12.87	1.89	23.14	581%	-92%	-44%
Fairchild Semiconductor	San Jose	SF	19.13	2.89	14.43	562%	-80%	33%
Flextronics	San Jose	SF	12.28	1.94	12.06	533%	-84%	2%
JDS Uniphase	Milpitas	SF	13.90	2.28	13.30	510%	-83%	5%
Callidus Software	Pleasanton	SF	14.26	2.43	5.17	487%	-53%	176%
Saba Software	Redwood Shores	SF	8.82	1.51	5.14	484%	-71%	72%
Brocade Communication Syst	San Jose	SF	12.37	2.16	7.34	473%	-71%	69%
SYNNEX	Fremont	SF	78.57	13.87	19.60	466%	-29%	301%
Equinix	Redwood City	SF	238.95	42.95	101.07	456%	-58%	136%
eBay Inc	San Jose	SF	57.93	10.43	33.19	455%	-69%	75%
TIBCO Software	Palo Alto	SF	24.03	4.66	8.00	416%	-42%	200%
Electronics for Imaging	Fremont	SF	42.06	8.20	22.48	413%	-64%	87%
Integrated Device Technology	San Jose	SF	21.53	4.21	11.31	411%	-63%	90%
Autodesk	San Rafael	SF	60.98	12.02	49.76	407%	-76%	23%
Cadence Design Systems	San Jose	SF	18.66	3.70	17.01	404%	-78%	10%
Agilent Technologies	Santa Clara	SF	42.21	9.05	26.27	367%	-66%	61%
Omnicell	Mountain View	SF	33.82	7.31	26.93	363%	-73%	26%
Coherent	Santa Clara	SF	67.33	14.74	31.57	357%	-53%	113%
Adobe Systems	San Jose	SF	77.36	17.16	42.73	351%	-60%	81%
Monolithic Power Systems	San Jose	SF	56.12	12.91	11.11	335%	16%	405%
Intuit	Mountain View	SF	100.43	23.23	31.61	332%	-27%	218%
LSI Corp	San Jose	SF	11.14	2.64	9.00	322%	-71%	24%
Riverbed Technology	San Francisco	SF	20.90	4.97	13.37	321%	-63%	56%
Trimble Navigation	Sunnyvale	SF	25.92	6.22	12.68	317%	-51%	104%
VMware	Palo Alto	SF	82.82	19.89	84.99	316%	-77%	-3%
CEVA Inc	Mountain View	SF	21.74	5.23	12.21	316%	-57%	78%
Move Inc	San Jose	SF	20.95	5.04	9.80	316%	-49%	114%
Lam Research	Fremont	SF	79.23	19.29	43.23	311%	-55%	83%
Tessera Technologies	San Jose	SF	43.54	10.70	41.60	307%	-74%	5%
KLA-Tencor	Milpitas	SF	63.54	15.63	48.16	307%	-68%	32%
Quantum	San Jose	SF	1.66	0.41	2.69	305%	-85%	-38%
Check Point Software	Redwood City	SF	85.12	21.04	21.10	305%	0%	303%
OmniVision Technologies	Santa Clara	SF	26.06	6.65	15.65	292%	-58%	67%
Oplink Communications	Fremont	SF	24.23	6.24	15.35	288%	-59%	58%
Synaptics	San Jose	SF	84.54	21.84	27.44	287%	-20%	208%
Informatica	Redwood City	SF	44.57	11.64	18.02	283%	-35%	147%
Electronic Arts	Redwood City	SF	57.28	15.31	58.41	274%	-74%	-2%
Google	Mountain View	SF	564.95	154.44	346.09	266%	-55%	63%
Yahoo!	Sunnyvale	SF	45.04	13.05	23.26	245%	-44%	94%
Silicon Image	Sunnyvale	SF	7.28	2.11	4.52	245%	-53%	61%
Advent Software	San Francisco	SF	44.18	13.04	27.05	239%	-52%	63%
Netgear	San Jose	SF	33.01	10.11	35.67	227%	-72%	-7%
Immersion Corp	San Jose	SF	8.50	2.62	12.95	224%	-80%	-34%
Infinera Corp	Sunnyvale	SF	19.12	5.95	14.84	221%	-60%	29%
Maxim Integrated Products	San Jose	SF	36.19	11.49	26.48	215%	-57%	37%
Power Integrations	San Jose	SF	57.52	18.40	34.43	213%	-47%	67%
Oracle	Redwood City	SF	44.41	14.47	22.58	207%	-36%	97%
NetApp	Sunnyvale	SF	37.32	12.90	24.96	189%	-48%	50%
Atmel Corp	San Jose	SF	8.97	3.11	4.32	188%	-28%	108%
NVIDIA	Santa Clara	SF	23.47	8.39	24.67	180%	-66%	-5%
Applied Materials	Santa Clara	SF	24.12	8.70	17.76	177%	-51%	36%
Pericom Semiconductor	Milpitas	SF	16.07	5.86	18.70	174%	-69%	-14%
PLX Technology	Sunnyvale	SF	6.50	2.39	9.30	172%	-74%	-30%
Extreme Networks	San Jose	SF	3.33	1.23	3.54	171%	-65%	-6%
Synopsys	Mountain View	SF	47.13	17.53	25.93	169%	-32%	82%
Silicon Graphics	Fremont	SF	9.38	3.51	10.00	167%	-65%	-6%
DSP Group	San Jose	SF	11.50	4.42	12.20	160%	-64%	-6%
GSI Technology	Sunnyvale	SF	5.80	2.25	2.55	158%	-12%	127%
Intel	Santa Clara	SF	31.31	12.41	26.66	152%	-53%	17%
QuickLogic	Sunnyvale	SF	1.86	0.75	3.30	148%	-77%	-44%
Micrel	San Jose	SF	15.63	6.49	8.45	141%	-23%	85%
Xilinx	San Jose	SF	42.27	17.82	21.87	137%	-19%	93%
Altera	San Jose	SF	36.95	15.77	19.68	134%	-20%	88%
Linear Technology	Milpitas	SF	48.53	21.60	30.32	125%	-29%	60%
Actuate	San Mateo	SF	6.60	3.03	7.77	118%	-61%	-15%
Cisco Systems	San Jose	SF	28.44	14.18	27.07	101%	-48%	5%
Exar Corp	Fremont	SF	10.69	5.36	7.97	99%	-33%	34%
Polycom	San Jose	SF	13.42	6.76	13.89	99%	-51%	-3%
Marvell Technology	Santa Clara	SF	15.72	8.06	13.98	95%	-42%	12%
Symantec	Mountain View	SF	24.38	12.93	16.14	89%	-20%	51%
Ultratech	San Jose	SF	18.79	10.03	11.34	87%	-12%	66%
Juniper Networks	Sunnyvale	SF	23.68	12.67	33.20	87%	-62%	-29%
IXYS Corp	Milpitas	SF	12.12	6.52	8.02	86%	-19%	51%
PMC-Sierra	Sunnyvale	SF	9.75	5.35	6.54	82%	-18%	49%
Procera Networks	Fremont	SF	9.76	5.50	14.00	77%	-61%	-30%
Supertex	Sunnyvale	SF	32.98	18.67	31.29	77%	-40%	5%
Harmonic	San Jose	SF	7.63	4.59	10.48	66%	-56%	-27%
Intevac	Santa Clara	SF	6.56	3.97	14.54	65%	-73%	-55%
Rambus	Sunnyvale	SF	12.74	7.84	20.94	63%	-63%	-39%
ShoreTel	Sunnyvale	SF	6.72	4.15	13.97	62%	-70%	-52%
Applied Micro Circuits	Sunnyvale	SF	5.49	3.47	8.74	58%	-60%	-37%
Intersil	Milpitas	SF	15.04	9.99	24.48	51%	-59%	-39%
Rovi Corp	Santa Clara	SF	22.20	15.13	18.33	47%	-17%	21%
MoSys	Santa Clara	SF	1.94	1.36	4.85	43%	-72%	-60%
SunPower Corp	San Jose	SF	32.87	23.39	37.17	41%	-37%	-12%
Dolby Laboratories	San Francisco	SF	39.25	29.13	49.72	35%	-41%	-21%
Advanced Micro Devices	Sunnyvale	SF	2.80	2.14	7.50	31%	-71%	-63%
Oclaro	San Jose	SF	1.85	1.46	11.90	27%	-88%	-84%
Hewlett-Packard	Palo Alto	SF	33.28	26.98	50.48	23%	-47%	-34%
Sigma Designs	Milpitas	SF	7.88	15.10	55.20	-48%	-73%	-86%

Average % Change all 114 Technology						416%	-57%	91%

…..Health Care
Jazz Pharmaceuticals	Palo Alto	SF	189.01	0.62	14.70	30,385%	-96%	1186%
Pharmacyclics	Sunnyvale	SF	257.85	0.86	1.45	29,886%	-41%	17683%
Medivation	San Francisco	SF	135.56	7.64	7.20	1674%	6%	1783%
BioMarin Pharmaceutical	San Rafael	SF	125.17	10.22	35.40	1125%	-71%	254%
DepoMed	Newark	SF	24.12	2.12	3.26	1038%	-35%	640%
BioTime	Alameda	SF	4.97	0.48	0.48	935%	0%	935%
The Cooper Companies	Pleasanton	SF	187.44	18.33	38.00	923%	-52%	393%
Align Technology	San Jose	SF	57.18	6.41	16.68	792%	-62%	243%
SciClone Pharmaceuticals	Foster City	SF	8.72	1.08	2.06	707%	-48%	323%
Cerus	Concord	SF	4.29	0.71	6.51	504%	-89%	-34%
Sangamo Biosciences	Richmond	SF	17.63	2.99	13.02	490%	-77%	35%
McKesson	San Francisco	SF	229.94	39.38	65.51	484%	-40%	251%
Natus Medical	San Carlos	SF	38.98	6.69	19.35	483%	-65%	101%
Corcept Therapeutics	Menlo Park	SF	5.60	1.00	3.09	460%	-68%	81%
Intermune	Brisbane	SF	73.89	13.63	13.33	442%	2%	454%
Intuitive Surgical	Sunnyvale	SF	509.03	95.89	323.00	431%	-70%	58%
Gilead Sciences	Foster City	SF	102.29	22.01	23.01	365%	-4%	345%
Dynavax Technologies	Berkeley	SF	22.62	5.50	51.10	311%	-89%	-56%
Threshold Pharmaceuticals	South San Francisco	SF	4.42	1.08	3.18	309%	-66%	39%
Abaxis	Union City	SF	65.61	16.14	35.86	307%	-55%	83%
Varian Medical Systems	Palo Alto	SF	94.51	27.73	52.16	241%	-47%	81%
Nektar Therapeutics	San Francisco	SF	12.02	4.21	6.71	186%	-37%	79%
Bio-Rad Laboratories	Hercules	SF	134.98	54.97	103.62	146%	-47%	30%
Cutera	Brisbane	SF	14.04	5.75	15.70	144%	-63%	-11%
Accuray	Sunnyvale	SF	8.99	4.09	15.22	120%	-73%	-41%
Thoratec	Pleasanton	SF	40.14	20.97	18.19	91%	15%	121%
Sunesis Pharmaceuticals	South San Francisco	SF	2.60	1.50	11.94	73%	-87%	-78%
Genomic Health	Redwood City	SF	32.14	19.57	22.64	64%	-14%	42%
Theravance	South San Francisco	SF	17.03	12.15	19.50	40%	-38%	-13%
DURECT	Cupertino	SF	1.68	1.54	6.43	9%	-76%	-74%
Geron	Menlo Park	SF	3.98	3.87	5.68	3%	-32%	-30%
VIVUS	Mountain View	SF	2.97	3.10	5.18	-4%	-40%	-43%
Rigel Pharmaceuticals	South San Francisco	SF	3.45	4.40	25.39	-22%	-83%	-86%
Exelixis	South San Francisco	SF	2.82	4.34	8.63	-35%	-50%	-67%
Cytokinetics	South San Francisco	SF	7.76	12.36	28.38	-37%	-56%	-73%
XOMA	Berkeley	SF	3.99	8.55	50.85	-53%	-83%	-92%
Xenoport	Santa Clara	SF	8.38	18.09	55.88	-54%	-68%	-85%

Average % Change all 37 Health Care						1,972%	-51%	661%

…..Finance
KKR Financial Holdings	San Francisco	SF	11.54	0.48	14.05	2304%	-97%	-18%
SVB Financial Group	Santa Clara	SF	125.88	12.06	50.40	944%	-76%	150%
Wells Fargo	San Francisco	SF	56.01	8.61	30.19	551%	-71%	86%
Bridge Capital Holdings	San Jose	SF	26.62	4.34	21.48	513%	-80%	24%
Visa	San Francisco	SF	67.41	12.55	14.13	437%	-11%	377%
Prologis	San Francisco	SF	44.39	9.72	57.56	357%	-83%	-23%
Essex Property Trust	Palo Alto	SF	240.55	55.19	97.49	336%	-43%	147%
Franklin Resources	San Mateo	SF	53.35	12.89	38.14	314%	-66%	40%
Hercules Technology Growth Capital	Palo Alto	SF	13.98	3.62	12.42	286%	-71%	13%
FNB Bancorp	South San Francisco	SF	28.40	8.19	17.04	247%	-52%	67%
BRE Properties	San Francisco	SF	61.00	18.28	40.53	234%	-55%	51%
Bank of Marin Bancorp	Novato	SF	51.31	17.80	29.25	188%	-39%	75%
Kennedy-Wilson Holdings	Beverly Hills	SF	26.15	9.44	9.10	177%	4%	187%
Charles Schwab	San Francisco	SF	30.01	11.36	25.55	164%	-56%	17%
Digital Realty Trust	San Francisco	SF	68.28	26.33	38.37	159%	-31%	78%
Heritage Commerce	San Jose	SF	9.03	3.92	18.39	130%	-79%	-51%
JMP Group	San Francisco	SF	8.75	4.15	8.48	111%	-51%	3%
Exchange Bank	Santa Rosa	SF	79.00	40.00	112.00	98%	-64%	-29%
Redwood Trust	Mill Valley	SF	18.83	12.45	34.24	51%	-64%	-45%
Westamerica	San Rafael	SF	44.58	34.36	44.55	30%	-23%	0%
eHealth	Mountain View	SF	10.24	13.32	32.11	-23%	-59%	-68%

Average % Change all 21 Financial						362%	-56%	51%

…..Services
Williams-Sonoma	San Francisco	SF	78.70	7.60	25.90	936%	-71%	204%
CAI Intl	San Francisco	SF	24.47	2.63	10.52	830%	-75%	133%
Core-Mark Holding	South San Francisco	SF	65.24	8.45	14.36	672%	-41%	354%
Jamba Inc	Emeryville	SF	15.01	2.00	18.50	651%	0%	-19%
Ross Stores	Pleasanton	SF	107.42	14.73	12.79	630%	15%	740%
Shutterfly Inc	Redwood City	SF	48.49	7.72	25.62	528%	-70%	89%
The Gap	San Francisco	SF	43.16	9.85	21.28	338%	-54%	103%
Robert Half Intl	Menlo Park	SF	62.95	14.41	27.04	337%	-47%	133%
Exponent	Menlo Park	SF	88.51	24.33	27.04	264%	-10%	227%
ARC Document Solutions	Walnut Creek	SF	8.80	2.86	16.48	208%	-83%	-47%
Safeway	Pleasanton	SF	35.10	17.53	34.21	100%	-49%	3%
TiVo Inc	Alviso	SF	10.61	6.50	8.34	63%	-22%	27%
URS Corp	San Francisco	SF	54.20	33.82	54.33	60%	-38%	0%
Bebe Stores	Brisbane	SF	3.53	4.82	12.86	-27%	-63%	-73%

Average % Change all 14 Services						399%	-43%	134%

…..Other Sectors
Adept Technology	Pleasanton	SF	6.40	1.89	7.95	239%	-76%	-19%
Landec	Menlo Park	SF	14.10	4.45	13.40	217%	-67%	5%
Simpson Manufacturing	Pleasanton	SF	37.63	13.92	26.59	170%	-48%	42%
Clorox	Oakland	SF	111.89	46.78	65.17	139%	-28%	72%
Chevron	San Ramon	SF	107.03	58.27	93.33	84%	-38%	15%
LeapFrog Enterprises	Emeryville	SF	2.24	1.26	6.73	78%	-81%	-67%
Central Garden & Pet	Walnut Creek	SF	10.28	6.30	5.76	63%	9%	78%

Average % Change all 7 Other						141%	-47%	18%

Average % Change all 193 San Fran Bay & Silicon Valley Calif Area Companies						697%	-54%	196%

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Saturday, March 21, 2015

All San Francisco/Silicon Companies Stock Market Prices Up 697% Since March 6, 2009 vs Up 544% Only 4 1/2 Months Ago ..... Do You Think the San Francisco/Silicon Valley Area Companies Might Like Ben Bernanke and Janet Yellen?

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