- On December 31, 2007, or early in 2008 for companies first going public then, both 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 May 15, 2015, or the date the Companies were sold, if they were sold since the beginning of 2014
These 108 Ohio Companies had their equal-company weighted average stock market prices decline by a huge 59% 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 six years and two months since March 6, 2009 through the most recent date May 15, 2015, the average stock market prices of these same 108 Ohio Companies have increased by a spectacular 633%. Also, as the prospects for passage of Free Trade Agreements have improved, the stock market prices of many of the large number of Ohio Multi-National Manufacturing Companies have increased sharply.
There has been something upwardly explosive happening with the Ohio Companies Stock Market Prices since the 2008/2009 US Financial Meltdown, and among others, President Obama, Ohio US Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown, and Ohio US Democratic House Members Joyce Beatty, Marcia Fudge, Marcy Kaptur and Tim Ryan have all undoubtedly helped here. But to be fair, Ohio Governor John Kasich, Ohio US Senator Rob Portman and US House Speaker John Boehner also all helped here.
Ohio US Senator Sherrod Brown, working with US Democratic Senate Finance Minority Head Oregon Senator Ron Wyden, has done an exceptional job making the Trade Promotion Agreement Substantially Fairer to US Workers .... it is a massive improvement from US President Bill Clinton's NAFTA.
Even though Ron Wyden will be voting for the overall Free Trade Package, whereas Sherrod Brown will be voting against the final Free Trade Package, they both have substantially helped US Workers here. By their actions, I think they both demonstrated exceptionally effective leadership skills and both would make outstanding US Democratic Presidential candidates.
Below here are the 108 Ohio 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 May 15, 2015, or the date the Companies were sold, if they were sold since the beginning of 2014, 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 | |||
| Ohio Company | HQs | 5-15-15 | 3-6-09 | 12-31-07 | 5-15-15 | 3-6-09 | 5-15-15 | |
| $s | $s | $s | ||||||
| Dana Holding | Maumee | OH | 22.01 | 0.23 | 12.70 | 9470% | -98% | 73% |
| Air Transport Services Group | Wilmington | OH | 10.69 | 0.22 | 4.18 | 4759% | -95% | 156% |
| Libbey Inc | Toledo | OH | 41.49 | 0.96 | 15.84 | 4222% | -94% | 162% |
| PolyOne Corp | Avon Lake | OH | 40.19 | 1.39 | 6.58 | 2791% | -79% | 511% |
| EW Scripps | Cincinnati | OH | 21.73 | 0.79 | 31.19 | 2651% | -97% | -30% |
| Park-Ohio Holdings | Cleveland | OH | 46.69 | 1.99 | 25.10 | 2246% | -92% | 86% |
| Core Molding Technologies | Columbus | OH | 24.80 | 1.28 | 7.06 | 1838% | -82% | 251% |
| AtriCure | West Chester | OH | 21.46 | 1.25 | 13.11 | 1617% | -90% | 64% |
| Fifth Third Bancorp | Cincinnati | OH | 20.36 | 1.29 | 25.13 | 1478% | -95% | -19% |
| Ferro Corp | Mayfield Heights | OH | 14.65 | 0.97 | 20.73 | 1410% | -95% | -29% |
| L Brands | Columbus | OH | 88.23 | 6.26 | 18.93 | 1309% | -67% | 366% |
| Commercial Vehicle Group | New Albany | OH | 6.27 | 0.47 | 14.50 | 1234% | -97% | -57% |
| Glimcher Realty Trust | Columbus | OH | 14.06 | 1.08 | 14.29 | 1202% | -92% | -2% |
| Nacco Industries | Cleveland | OH | 59.78 | 4.78 | 31.76 | 1152% | -85% | 88% |
| DDR Corp | Beachwood | OH | 17.65 | 1.52 | 38.29 | 1061% | -96% | -54% |
| United Community Financial | Youngstown | OH | 5.45 | 0.48 | 5.37 | 1035% | -91% | 1% |
| Huntington Bancshares | Columbus | OH | 11.08 | 1.02 | 14.76 | 986% | -93% | -25% |
| Cooper Tire & Rubber | Findlay | OH | 36.43 | 3.44 | 16.58 | 959% | -79% | 120% |
| DSW Inc | Columbus | OH | 35.30 | 3.47 | 9.38 | 919% | -63% | 276% |
| Rex American Resources | Dayton | OH | 66.71 | 6.86 | 15.77 | 872% | -56% | 323% |
| Cedar Fair LP | Sandusky | OH | 58.19 | 6.00 | 21.13 | 870% | -72% | 175% |
| Macy's | Cincinnati | OH | 66.53 | 6.94 | 25.87 | 859% | -73% | 157% |
| OMNOVA Solutions | Fairlawn | OH | 7.62 | 0.82 | 4.41 | 829% | -81% | 73% |
| Goodyear Tire & Rubber | Akron | OH | 30.85 | 3.51 | 28.22 | 779% | -88% | 9% |
| First Defiance Financial | Defiance | OH | 36.47 | 4.24 | 22.02 | 760% | -81% | 66% |
| Travel Centers of America | Westlake | OH | 15.15 | 1.82 | 12.50 | 732% | -85% | 21% |
| Shilo Industries | Valley City | OH | 10.75 | 1.37 | 9.85 | 685% | -86% | 9% |
| Nordson | Westlake | OH | 83.12 | 10.62 | 28.98 | 683% | -63% | 187% |
| Rocky Brands | Nelsonville | OH | 21.59 | 2.80 | 6.13 | 671% | -54% | 252% |
| Owens Corning | Toledo | OH | 40.06 | 5.33 | 20.22 | 652% | -74% | 98% |
| TransDigm Group | Cleveland | OH | 227.55 | 30.94 | 45.17 | 635% | -32% | 404% |
| Mettler-Toledo | Columbus | OH | 325.62 | 47.40 | 113.80 | 587% | -58% | 186% |
| Stoneridge | Warren | OH | 12.18 | 1.79 | 8.04 | 580% | -78% | 51% |
| Sherwin-Williams | Cleveland | OH | 291.22 | 42.98 | 58.04 | 578% | -26% | 402% |
| Chart Industries | Garfield Heights | OH | 35.19 | 5.57 | 30.90 | 532% | -82% | 14% |
| CECO Environmental | Cincinnati | OH | 11.45 | 1.86 | 10.98 | 516% | -83% | 4% |
| Diamond Hill Investment Group | Columbus | OH | 187.91 | 31.78 | 73.10 | 491% | -57% | 157% |
| Forest City Enterprises | Cleveland | OH | 23.37 | 4.02 | 44.44 | 481% | -91% | -47% |
| Cardinal Health | Dublin | OH | 87.55 | 15.37 | 29.77 | 469% | -48% | 194% |
| RPM Intl | Medinah | OH | 50.40 | 9.24 | 20.30 | 445% | -54% | 148% |
| Multi-Color Corp | Batavia | OH | 65.10 | 12.18 | 27.47 | 434% | -56% | 137% |
| Associated Estates Realty | Richmond Heights | OH | 28.53 | 5.35 | 9.44 | 433% | -43% | 202% |
| Myers Industries | Akron | OH | 17.41 | 3.35 | 14.47 | 420% | -77% | 20% |
| Lincoln Electric Holdings | Cleveland | OH | 69.28 | 13.66 | 35.59 | 407% | -62% | 95% |
| Pacer Intl | Dublin | OH | 8.90 | 1.76 | 14.60 | 406% | -88% | -39% |
| American Financial Group | Cincinnati | OH | 63.87 | 13.13 | 28.88 | 386% | -55% | 121% |
| Eaton Corp PLC | Cleveland | OH | 73.32 | 15.56 | 48.48 | 371% | -68% | 51% |
| Cintas | Cincinnati | OH | 85.45 | 18.46 | 33.62 | 363% | -45% | 154% |
| M/I Homes | Columbus | OH | 23.56 | 5.09 | 10.50 | 363% | -52% | 124% |
| Convergys | Cincinnati | OH | 24.41 | 5.70 | 16.46 | 328% | -65% | 48% |
| Parker-Hannifin | Cleveland | OH | 122.33 | 28.63 | 75.31 | 327% | -62% | 62% |
| Timken | Canton | OH | 40.61 | 10.04 | 32.85 | 304% | -69% | 24% |
| The Andersons | Maumee | OH | 46.04 | 11.55 | 44.80 | 299% | -74% | 3% |
| Omnicare | Cincinnati | OH | 92.51 | 23.35 | 22.81 | 296% | 2% | 306% |
| Worthington Industries | Columbus | OH | 27.38 | 7.27 | 17.88 | 277% | -59% | 53% |
| Kroger | Cincinnati | OH | 73.10 | 19.85 | 26.71 | 268% | -26% | 174% |
| LNB Bancorp | Lorraine | OH | 18.15 | 4.99 | 14.65 | 264% | -66% | 24% |
| Scripps Networks Interactive | Cincinnati | OH | 67.13 | 19.01 | 42.50 | 253% | -55% | 58% |
| A. Schulman | Fairlawn | OH | 43.17 | 12.56 | 21.55 | 244% | -42% | 100% |
| Chemed | Cincinnati | OH | 121.21 | 35.30 | 55.88 | 243% | -37% | 117% |
| RG Barry Corp | Pickerington | OH | 18.98 | 5.58 | 7.05 | 240% | -21% | 169% |
| JM Smucker | Orrville | OH | 118.50 | 35.01 | 51.44 | 238% | -32% | 130% |
| Steris | Mentor | OH | 69.59 | 20.61 | 28.84 | 238% | -29% | 141% |
| Materion | Mayfield Heights | OH | 38.56 | 12.16 | 37.02 | 217% | -67% | 4% |
| First Financial Bancorp | Cincinnati | OH | 16.95 | 5.66 | 11.40 | 199% | -50% | 49% |
| Peoples Bancorp | Marietta | OH | 22.87 | 7.73 | 24.89 | 196% | -69% | -8% |
| SIFCO Industries | Cleveland | OH | 14.83 | 5.10 | 16.80 | 191% | -70% | -12% |
| Applied Industrial Technologies | Cleveland | OH | 42.66 | 14.97 | 29.02 | 185% | -48% | 47% |
| KeyCorp | Cleveland | OH | 14.70 | 5.36 | 23.45 | 174% | -77% | -37% |
| Cincinnati Financial | Fairfield | OH | 50.87 | 18.57 | 39.54 | 174% | -53% | 29% |
| Gorman-Rupp | Mansfield | OH | 27.04 | 9.88 | 19.97 | 174% | -51% | 35% |
| Wendy's | Dublin | OH | 11.21 | 4.10 | 8.73 | 173% | -53% | 28% |
| Bob Evans Farms | Columbus | OH | 45.93 | 16.86 | 26.93 | 172% | -37% | 71% |
| LSI Industries | Cincinnati | OH | 8.84 | 3.32 | 18.20 | 166% | -82% | -51% |
| Health Care REIT | Toledo | OH | 72.41 | 27.27 | 44.69 | 166% | -39% | 62% |
| Big Lots | Columbus | OH | 46.32 | 17.51 | 15.99 | 165% | 10% | 190% |
| Progressive | Mayfield Village | OH | 27.23 | 10.32 | 19.16 | 164% | -46% | 42% |
| LCA-Vision | Cincinnati | OH | 5.37 | 2.07 | 19.97 | 159% | -90% | -73% |
| Owens-Illinois | Perrysburg | OH | 25.64 | 10.13 | 49.50 | 153% | -80% | -48% |
| Cheviot Financial Group | Cheviot | OH | 15.30 | 6.05 | 9.51 | 153% | -36% | 61% |
| Teradata | Dayton | OH | 40.22 | 16.01 | 27.41 | 151% | -42% | 47% |
| Scotts Miracle-Gro | Marysville | OH | 64.75 | 25.83 | 37.42 | 151% | -31% | 73% |
| Navidea Biopharmaceuticals | Dublin | OH | 1.29 | 0.53 | 0.29 | 143% | 83% | 345% |
| NB&T Financial Group | Wilmington | OH | 29.79 | 12.58 | 19.90 | 137% | -37% | 50% |
| Lancaster Colony | Columbus | OH | 91.00 | 39.63 | 39.70 | 130% | 0% | 129% |
| Cincinnati Bell | Cincinnati | OH | 3.62 | 1.65 | 4.75 | 119% | -65% | -24% |
| Athersys | Cleveland | OH | 1.27 | 0.58 | 4.91 | 119% | -88% | -74% |
| Farmers National Banc | Canfield | OH | 8.16 | 3.99 | 7.70 | 105% | -48% | 6% |
| Park National | Newark | OH | 82.28 | 42.15 | 64.50 | 95% | -35% | 28% |
| OM Group | Cleveland | OH | 27.74 | 14.35 | 57.54 | 93% | -75% | -52% |
| National Interstate | Richfield | OH | 27.26 | 14.34 | 33.10 | 90% | -57% | -18% |
| Procter & Gamble | Cincinnati | OH | 81.05 | 45.71 | 73.42 | 77% | -38% | 10% |
| Diebold | North Canton | OH | 34.29 | 19.92 | 28.98 | 72% | -31% | 18% |
| Olympic Steel | Bedford Heights | OH | 19.20 | 11.21 | 31.71 | 71% | -65% | -39% |
| Greif | Delaware | OH | 42.36 | 26.54 | 65.37 | 60% | -59% | -35% |
| FirstMerit | Akron | OH | 19.43 | 12.82 | 19.86 | 52% | -35% | -2% |
| State Auto Financial | Columbus | OH | 22.62 | 15.12 | 26.30 | 50% | -43% | -14% |
| Invacare | Elyria | OH | 21.62 | 14.96 | 25.20 | 45% | -41% | -14% |
| Frisch's Restaurants | Cincinnati | OH | 28.00 | 19.50 | 23.40 | 44% | -17% | 20% |
| CBIZ Inc | Cleveland | OH | 9.35 | 6.61 | 9.81 | 41% | -33% | -5% |
| Farmers and Merchants Bancorp | Archbold | OH | 26.26 | 18.75 | 20.25 | 40% | -7% | 30% |
| Preformed Line Products | Mayfield Village | OH | 39.10 | 28.26 | 59.97 | 38% | -53% | -35% |
| TFS Financial | Cleveland | OH | 14.74 | 11.30 | 11.94 | 30% | -5% | 23% |
| Abercrombie & Fitch | New Albany | OH | 21.42 | 17.49 | 79.97 | 22% | -78% | -73% |
| Meridian Bioscience | Cincinnati | OH | 18.04 | 17.86 | 30.08 | 1% | -41% | -40% |
| GrafTech Intl | Parma | OH | 4.95 | 5.25 | 17.75 | -6% | -70% | -72% |
| AK Steel Holding | West Chester | OH | 5.67 | 6.09 | 46.24 | -7% | -87% | -88% |
| Cliffs Natural Resources | Cleveland | OH | 5.71 | 13.00 | 25.20 | -56% | -48% | -77% |
| Average % Change all 108 | 633% | -59% | 70% |
On the employment front, Ohio's State Unemployment Rate has dropped precipitously, declining from 11.0% in December 2009 to only 5.1% in the most recently reported March 2015.
