Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Missouri Companies Stock Market Prices Up 294% Since March 6, 2009 ..... an Acceleration From the 262% Growth Only 4 1/2 Months Ago

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.  St. Louis, MO is only 165 miles from Evansville and the University of Missouri is 290 miles from Evansville.      

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 16, 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.

Below here are the 41 Missouri Headquartered Companies with Stock Market Caps now above $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 16, 2015, or the date the Companies were sold, if they were sold since the beginning of 2014.






Market Market Market






Price Price Price






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Change Change Change



Market Market Market 3-6-09 12-31-07 12-31-07



Price Price Price to to to
Missouri Company HQs
3-16-15 3-6-09 12-31-07 3-16-15 3-6-09 3-16-15



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Brown Shoe Co St Louis MO      30.28        2.27      15.17 1234% -85% 100%
Belden St Louis  MO       87.34        8.49      44.50 929% -81% 96%
Centene St Louis MO      67.35        7.75      13.72 769% -44% 391%
Kansas City Southern Kansas City MO     115.97      13.53      34.33 757% -61% 238%
Cerner North Kansas City MO      71.57        9.18      14.10 680% -35% 408%
American Railcar Industries St Charles MO      49.02        6.83      19.25 618% -65% 155%
O'Reilly Automotive Springfield MO     215.06      32.14      32.43 569% -1% 563%
Build-A-Bear St Louis MO      20.45        3.76        4.12 444% -9% 396%
Perficient St Louis MO      20.18        3.81      15.74 430% -76% 28%
EPR Properties Kansas City MO      59.31      12.79      47.00 364% -73% 26%
Jack Henry & Associates Monett MO      67.67      14.80      24.34 357% -39% 178%
Leggett & Platt Carthage MO      45.82      10.31      17.44 344% -41% 163%
Isle of Capri Casinos St Louis MO      13.65        3.20      13.77 327% -77% -1%
Sigma-Aldrich St Louis MO     138.31      32.67      54.60 323% -40% 153%
Reinsurance Group America Chesterfield MO      92.99      22.40      52.48 315% -57% 77%
DST Systems Kansas City MO     106.49      26.80      82.55 297% -68% 29%
Great Southern Bancorp Springfield MO      38.92        9.87      21.96 294% -55% 77%
Southern Missouri Bancorp Poplar Bluff MO      18.72        4.75        7.00 294% -32% 168%
Panera Bread St Louis MO     164.08      44.18      35.82 271% 23% 358%
Express Scripts St Louis MO      83.65      23.10      36.50 262% -37% 129%
Energizer Holdings St Louis MO     135.76      38.56     112.13 252% -66% 21%
Amdocs Limited Chesterfield MO      52.11      16.20      34.47 222% -53% 51%
Olin Corp Clayton MO      28.97        9.28      19.33 212% -52% 50%
Kansas City Life Insurance Kansas City MO      46.55      16.18      43.59 188% -63% 7%
Zoltek Companies St Louis MO      16.73        5.84      42.87 186% -86% -61%
Stifel Financial St Louis MO      56.03      20.00      23.36 180% -14% 140%
Pulaski Financial Group St Louis MO      12.49        5.10      10.00 145% -49% 25%
Enterprise Financial Services St Louis MO      20.75        8.68      23.81 139% -64% -13%
Emerson Electric St Louis  MO       56.23      25.17      56.66 123% -56% -1%
Cass Information Systems St Louis MO      51.02      22.92      30.37 123% -25% 68%
LMI Aerospace St Charles  MO      12.29        6.39      26.51 92% -76% -54%
Commerce Bancshares Kansas City MO      42.47      22.54      33.48 88% -33% 27%
NASB Financial Inc Grandview MO      27.90      14.89      26.38 87% -44% 6%
SunEdison St Peters MO      24.14      13.68      88.49 76% -85% -73%
H&R Block Kansas City MO      32.16      18.68      18.57 72% 1% 73%
Monsanto St Louis MO     117.91      71.65     111.69 65% -36% 6%
UMB Financial Kansas City MO      51.99      34.54      38.36 51% -10% 36%
Aegion Chesterfield MO      17.57      12.62      14.80 39% -15% 19%
ESCO Technologies St Louis MO      38.66      32.57      39.94 19% -18% -3%
Peabody Energy St Louis MO        5.48      21.84      61.64 -75% -65% -91%
Arch Coal St Louis MO        0.84      12.53      44.93 -93% -72% -98%









Average % Change all 41




294% -47% 94%