Thursday, November 17, 2016

Los Angeles, California Area Companies Average Stock Market Prices Up 532% Since March 6, 2009, a Month and a Half After President Obama Took Office

Since the Los Angeles, California Area (more than any other large metro area in the US) has four truly outstanding US Congress people ..... Xavier Becerra, Ted Lieu, Mark Takano and the financially brilliant Maxine Waters ..... who all just don't blindly vote on the politically expedient option.....like the devastating to income equality and extremely country-dividing PATH ACT of 2015.....but instead on very substantive legislation vote on what is best for the entire country, I think I would like to research how Los Angeles Area 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 136 Los Angeles Area Headquartered Companies with Stock Market Caps of more than $100 mil and which have had their common stocks trading from December 31, 2007, or in very early 2008 for companies first going public then, through the most recent date November 16, 2016 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.

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





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

Price Price Price to to to
Los Angeles Area Cos City Hqs Area 11-16-16 3-6-09 12-31-07 11-16-16 3-6-09 11-16-16


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IMPAC Mortgage Holdings Irvine LA            13.95              0.25              0.56 5480% -55% 2391%
Avanir Pharmaceuticals Aliso Viejo  LA             16.96              0.38              1.26 4363% -70% 1243%
CalAmp Oxnard  LA             14.71              0.39              2.78 3672% -86% 429%
Entravision Communications Santa Monica  LA               6.85              0.20              7.83 3325% -97% -13%
On Assignment Calabasas  LA             40.62              1.44              7.01 2721% -79% 479%
AerCap Holdings NV Los Angeles LA            44.04              2.09            20.87 2007% -90% 111%
Questcor Pharmaceuticals Anaheim  LA             93.60              5.02              5.77 1765% -13% 1522%
Salem Media Group Camarillo  LA               5.80              0.34              6.59 1606% -95% -12%
CapitalSource Los Angeles  LA             15.50              1.01            17.59 1435% -94% -12%
DineEquity Glendale  LA             85.10              5.93            36.58 1335% -84% 133%
Consumer Portfolio Services Irvine  LA               4.89              0.35              3.35 1297% -90% 46%
Stamps.com El Segundo  LA           108.50              8.15            12.18 1231% -33% 791%
East West Bancorp Pasadena  LA             45.64              3.69            24.23 1137% -85% 88%
Willdan Group Anaheim LA            20.00              1.65              6.88 1112% -76% 191%
Skechers USA Manhattan Beach  LA             22.24              1.90              6.50 1071% -71% 242%
Standard Pacific Irvine  LA               8.00              0.69              3.35 1059% -79% 139%
CBRE Group Los Angeles  LA             27.81              2.52            21.55 1004% -88% 29%
Autobytel Irvine  LA             13.60              1.40            13.75 871% -90% -1%
Macerich Santa Monica  LA             69.62              7.17            71.06 871% -90% -2%
Live Nation Entertainment Beverly Hills  LA             27.85              2.89            14.52 864% -80% 92%
CalAtlantic Group Irvine LA            32.08              3.45            16.75 830% -79% 92%
Simulations Plus Lancaster  LA               9.10              0.98              3.82 829% -74% 138%
Pacific Premier Bancorp Irvine  LA             25.10              2.80              6.91 796% -59% 263%
Signature Group Holdings Sherman Oaks  LA               7.16              0.80            35.00 795% -98% -80%
Hope Bancorp Los Angeles  LA             19.13              2.25            11.67 750% -81% 64%
STAAR Surgical Monrovia  LA             10.50              1.25              2.64 740% -53% 298%
Preferred Bank Los Angeles  LA             43.50              5.35            26.02 713% -79% 67%
Herbalife Los Angeles  LA             52.15              6.47            20.14 706% -68% 159%
Cheesecake Factory Calabasas  LA             56.87              7.15            23.71 695% -70% 140%
Motor Parts America Torrance  LA             26.69              3.45            10.96 674% -69% 144%
Newport Irvine  LA             22.99              3.19            12.79 621% -75% 80%
Monster Beverage Corona  LA             42.06              5.89              7.38 614% -20% 470%
Tower Semiconductor Ltd (USA) Newport Beach LA            17.50              2.55            20.85 586% -88% -16%
Sunstone Hotel Investors Aliso Viejo  LA             14.21              2.11            18.29 573% -88% -22%
Allergan Irvine  LA           240.22            36.52            64.24 558% -43% 274%
Daily Journal Los Angeles  LA           224.36            34.32            41.25 554% -17% 444%
Edwards Lifesciences Irvine  LA             89.13            13.73            11.50 549% 19% 675%
Walt Disney Co Burbank  LA             99.12            15.83            32.28 526% -51% 207%
RadNet Los Angeles LA              6.35              1.03            10.15 517% -90% -37%
Health Net Woodland Hills  LA             67.19            10.93            48.30 515% -77% 39%
Calavo Growers Santa Paula  LA             66.35            10.99            18.95 504% -42% 250%
PCM Inc El Segundo  LA             19.35              3.24              9.31 497% -65% 108%
Conversant Westlake Village  LA             34.44              5.84            21.90 490% -73% 57%
Microsemi Aliso Viejo  LA             53.95              9.29            22.14 481% -58% 144%
Collectors Universe Santa Ana  LA             19.29              3.38            11.18 471% -70% 73%
Endologix Irvine  LA               7.82              1.38              2.80 467% -51% 179%
OSI Systems Hawthorne  LA             76.70            14.07            26.47 445% -47% 190%
The Ensign Group Mission Viejo  LA             21.31              3.91              3.93 445% -1% 442%
Douglas Emmett Inc Santa Monica  LA             34.89              6.45            22.61 441% -71% 54%
Teledyne Technologies Thousand Oaks  LA           120.39            22.29            53.33 440% -58% 126%
IPC The Hospitalist Co North Hollywood  LA             80.17            15.30            20.48 424% -25% 291%
PacWest Bancorp Los Angeles  LA             50.47              9.78            41.24 416% -76% 22%
ICU Medical San Clemente  LA           144.60            28.41            36.01 409% -21% 302%
Kaiser Aluminum Foothill Ranch  LA             84.75            16.70            79.48 407% -79% 7%
Reading Intl Los Angeles  LA             14.70              3.05              9.99 382% -69% 47%
DIRECTV El Segundo  LA             93.55            19.68            23.12 375% -15% 305%
Kilroy Realty Los Angeles  LA             70.66            15.52            54.96 355% -72% 29%
Molina Healthcare Long Beach  LA             51.91            11.43            25.80 354% -56% 101%
Hanmi Financial Los Angeles  LA             30.05              6.64            69.96 353% -91% -57%
Big 5 Sporting Goods El Segundo  LA             19.85              4.46            14.42 345% -69% 38%
Universal Electronics Santa Ana  LA             68.90            15.75            33.44 337% -53% 106%
Lions Gate Entertainment Santa Monica  LA             22.99              5.32              9.42 332% -44% 144%
Cathay General Bancorp Los Angeles  LA             34.90              8.08            26.49 332% -69% 32%
Public Storage Glendale  LA           208.21            48.83            73.41 326% -33% 184%
Provident Financial Holdings Riverside  LA             19.96              4.80            16.46 316% -71% 21%
Avery Dennison Pasadena  LA             71.38            17.40            53.14 310% -67% 34%
Western Digital Irvine  LA             59.53            14.55            30.21 309% -52% 97%
j2 Global Los Angeles  LA             74.07            18.62            21.17 298% -12% 250%
Ingram Micro Santa Ana  LA             38.45              9.95            18.04 286% -45% 113%
Bridgford Foods Anaheim LA            12.22              3.19              6.64 283% -52% 84%
City National Los Angeles  LA             89.60            23.68            59.55 278% -60% 50%
Activision Blizzard Santa Monica  LA             38.97            10.33            14.85 277% -30% 162%
CVB Financial Ontario  LA             21.10              5.77            10.34 266% -44% 104%
PS Business Parks Glendale LA          108.69            30.21            52.55 260% -43% 107%
BJs Restaurants Huntington Beach  LA             38.35            10.66            16.26 260% -34% 136%
VCA Los Angeles  LA             64.76            18.06            44.23 259% -59% 46%
CU Bancorp Encino  LA             27.20              7.65            14.00 256% -45% 94%
Reliance Steel & Aluminum Los Angeles  LA             78.52            22.44            54.20 250% -59% 45%
CorVel Irvine  LA             32.20              9.25            11.51 248% -20% 180%
International Rectifier El Segundo  LA             39.98            11.59            33.97 245% -66% 18%
Iteris Santa Ana LA              3.43              1.01              3.97 240% -75% -14%
CoreLogic Santa Ana  LA             38.51            11.37            19.48 239% -42% 98%
Ryland Group Westlake Village  LA             40.83            12.33            27.55 231% -55% 48%
Alexandria Real Estate Equities Pasadena  LA           106.90            32.83          101.67 226% -68% 5%
Broadcom Irvine  LA             54.67            16.97            26.14 222% -35% 109%
Amgen Thousand Oaks  LA           147.23            46.38            46.44 217% 0% 217%
Ixia Calabasas  LA             13.80              4.36              9.48 217% -54% 46%
Crown Media Holdings Studio City  LA               5.07              1.62              6.50 213% -75% -22%
American Business Bank Los Angeles  LA             30.00              9.71            13.78 209% -30% 118%
EMCORE Alhambra LA              6.65              2.16            61.20 208% -96% -89%
1st Century Bancshares Los Angeles LA            11.22              3.75              6.00 199% -38% 87%
TTM Technologies Costa Mesa  LA             12.71              4.29            11.66 196% -63% 9%
Mattel El Segundo  LA             32.00            10.82            19.04 196% -43% 68%
Wilshire Bancorp Los Angeles  LA             10.74              3.65              7.85 194% -54% 37%
Korn/Ferry Intl Los Angeles  LA             23.69              8.30            18.82 185% -56% 26%
General Finance Corp Pasadena  LA               4.15              1.46              9.08 184% -84% -54%
DTS Inc Calabasas  LA             42.47            15.35            25.57 177% -40% 66%
LTC Properties Westlake Village  LA             45.30            16.74            25.05 171% -33% 81%
Biolase Irvine LA              1.72              0.67              2.24 157% -70% -23%
Masimo Irvine  LA             61.66            24.08            39.45 156% -39% 56%
Acacia Research Corp Newport Beach  LA               6.40              2.50              8.98 156% -72% -29%
Simplicity Bancorp Covina  LA             17.16              6.80            10.09 152% -33% 70%
Banc of California Irvine  LA             14.80              5.99            18.21 147% -67% -19%
Mercury General Los Angeles  LA             58.01            23.53            49.81 147% -53% 16%
Tutor Perini Sylmar  LA             25.95            10.77            41.42 141% -74% -37%
US Auto Parts Network Carson  LA               3.00              1.26              8.11 138% -84% -63%
Kennedy-Wilson Holdings Beverly Hills LA            22.40              9.44              9.10 137% 4% 146%
Semtech Camarillo  LA             27.25            11.84            15.52 130% -24% 76%
DreamWorks Animation SKG Glendale  LA             40.97            18.56            25.54 121% -27% 60%
Ducommun Inc Carson  LA             25.49            11.96            38.00 113% -69% -33%
Guidance Software Pasadena  LA               6.57              3.09            13.96 113% -78% -53%
United Online Woodland Hills  LA             11.00              5.34            15.56 106% -66% -29%
Electro Rent Corp Van Nuys LA            15.50              7.53            14.85 106% -49% 4%
California First Natl Bancorp Irvine  LA             15.45              7.53              9.74 105% -23% 59%
Pacific Mercantile Bancorp Costa Mesa  LA               6.30              3.15            12.31 100% -74% -49%
Tetra Tech Pasadena  LA             41.65            21.17            21.50 97% -2% 94%
First American Financial Santa Ana LA            37.85            19.92            34.12 90% -42% 11%
HCP Inc Long Beach  LA             29.32            16.08            34.78 82% -54% -16%
KB Home Los Angeles  LA             15.04              8.27            21.60 82% -62% -30%
Jacobs Engineering Group Pasadena  LA             58.63            32.71            95.61 79% -66% -39%
AECOM Los Angeles  LA             37.53            21.17            28.57 77% -26% 31%
Multi-Fineline Electronix Irvine  LA             23.09            13.05            17.34 77% -25% 33%
Emulex Costa Mesa  LA               7.99              4.72            16.32 69% -71% -51%
Qlogic Aliso Viejo  LA             16.07              9.70            14.20 66% -32% 13%
Arden Group Compton  LA           126.38            83.86          154.69 51% -46% -18%
American Vanguard Newport Beach  LA             17.45            11.73            17.35 49% -32% 1%
Cadiz Los Angeles LA              9.05              6.74            21.00 34% -68% -57%
Resources Connection Irvine  LA             15.90            13.02            18.16 22% -28% -12%
Guess? Inc Los Angeles  LA             16.04            13.29            37.89 21% -65% -58%
Skilled Healthcare Group Foothill Ranch  LA               8.77              8.00            14.63 10% -45% -40%
Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals Pasadena  LA               4.44              4.30            37.80 3% -89% -88%
Anworth Mortgage Asset Santa Monica  LA               5.09              5.54              8.26 -8% -33% -38%
AeroVironment Monrovia  LA             27.55            31.78            24.20 -13% 31% 14%
Quality Systems Irvine  LA             13.80            17.75            15.25 -22% 16% -9%
JAKKS Pacific Malibu  LA               6.95            10.80            23.61 -36% -54% -71%
MannKind Valencia  LA               0.63              2.17              7.96 -71% -73% -92%









Average % Change all 136 LA Area




532% -56% 122%

If US House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and US Senate Democratic Leaders Harry Reid and Chuck Schumer would have all three voted against the $622 Bil very country-dividing PATH ACT of 2015, which overwhelmingly favored the largest, most profitable US Corporations and also favored the already very well-heeled US wealthy, and at the same time, harmed the US middle and lower income non-college-educated whites, especially in the rural Midwest, and also severely harmed the so many publicly-held US Corporations generating Losses, which represent more than half of all publicly-held US Corporations, and they had also taken many US House and Senate Members with them, I think that Hillary Clinton would have easily won the Electoral Vote and the US Presidency.

The last thing Democrats should want is to retain as US House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and to select as the US Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who both voted for and very strongly advocated for the very country-divisive PACT ACT of 2015, which by its passage effectively resulted in many battleground US States, including among others Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, North Carolina and Florida, voting against Hillary Clinton in the US Presidential election.

Nancy Pelosi was a great leader in the past, but at her current very advanced age, she no longer is.

Chuck Schumer has never been a great leader, only a Big New York Corp enabler, and there was no better illustration of this than in the $622 Bil of tax goodies PACT ACT of 2015, where his New York Big Corps, especially JPMorgan Chase, made out like bandits, but simultaneously cost Hillary Clinton the Presidential election. 

If the Democratic Congress Member leading the US House is from San Francisco, California and the one leading the US Senate is from New York, New York, then you have a formula for the even further collapse of the Democratic Party.  It does no good to win even more votes in California and in New York.  To win the US Presidency and control of the US Senate and the US House, you need to get a lot more votes in the other 48 US States.  Thus for political success, both the US Senate and the US House need to be led by someone outside of New York and California. 

Republicans are again outsmarting Democrats here by having as their leaders one from Wisconsin and one from Kentucky, both not even close to being large US States.

For the best of all US Citizens, when there is congressional legislation offered which has a substantial amount of financial/economic impact, the best option is to consult with Maxine Waters, who has more financial/economic expertise than anyone else in the US Congress.....in both the US House and US Senate.  If that would have happened on the PATH ACT of 2015 vote, Hillary Clinton would now be US President.