Friday, October 28, 2016

Iowa Companies With Market Caps Above $100 Mil Average Stock Market Prices Up 506% Since March 6, 2009, a Month and a Half After President Obama Took Office

Since Hillary Clinton is traveling today October 28, 2016, to both Des Moines, Iowa and Cedar Rapids, Iowa, I think it might be helpful to research how the Iowa Headquartered Companies have performed on the stock market price front during the Obama Administration.

Using Stock Market Prices from a combination of three excellent sources ..... Big Charts.com, GRT Historical Stock Price.com and Google Finance ..... below here are the 17 Iowa Headquartered Companies with Stock Market Caps of at least $100 mil and which have had their common stocks trading from December 31, 2007 through the very recent date of October 26, 2016, along with the related Stock Market Price Percentage Changes.

The below Average Stock Market Price Changes weigh each Company equally.





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
Iowa Company HQs
10-26-16 3-6-09 12-31-07 10-26-16 3-6-09 10-26-16



$ $ $ $ $ $









FBL Financial Group West Des Moines IA       63.39         2.55       34.53 2386% -93% 84%
Lee Enterprises Davenport IA         2.72         0.29       14.65 838% -98% -81%
Winnebago Industries Forest City IA       28.44         3.23       21.02 780% -85% 35%
Principal Financial Group Des Moines IA       53.01         6.08       68.84 772% -91% -23%
Flexsteel Dubuque IA       40.97         5.17       12.00 692% -57% 241%
Casey's General Stores Ankeny IA     115.26       18.81       29.61 513% -36% 289%
American Equity Investment Life West Des Moines IA       17.69         3.19         8.29 455% -62% 113%
HNI Corp Muscatine IA       40.74         8.16       35.06 399% -77% 16%
MidWest One Financial Group Iowa City IA       30.42         7.00       16.99 335% -59% 79%
Meredith Corp Des Moines IA       48.50       11.28       54.98 330% -79% -12%
Heartland Financial USA Dubuque IA       37.50         8.84       18.57 324% -52% 102%
West Bancorporation West Des Moines IA       19.25         5.64       13.04 241% -57% 48%
Rockwell Collins Cedar Rapids IA       81.40       28.35       71.97 187% -61% 13%
United Fire Group Cedar Rapids IA       40.18       17.54       29.09 129% -40% 38%
EMC Insurance Group Des Moines IA       25.41       12.69       15.78 100% -20% 61%
Ames National Corp Ames IA       27.15       15.71       19.50 73% -19% 39%
Heartland Express North Liberty IA       18.32       12.19       14.18 50% -14% 29%









Average % Change all 17




506% -59% 63%