Monday, November 14, 2016

Minnesota Companies Average Stock Market Prices Up 535% Since March 6, 2009, a Month and a Half After President Obama Took Office ..... Minnesota Perceptive Giant Keith Ellison Wisely and Courageously Voted Against the Overwhelmingly Big US Corp Favored $622 Bil PACT ACT of 2015 Whose Passage Energized the Anti-Establishment Movement, the Rise of Donald Trump and the Defeat of Hillary Clinton Which Set Back the US Democratc Party At Least 4 Years and Probably At Least 8 Years ..... The Dysfunctional DNC Clearly Needs New Leadership like Keith Ellison

Since Minnesota has a truly outstanding US Congressman Keith Ellison who just doesn't blindly vote on the politically expedient option but on very substantive legislation on what is best for the entire country, I think I would like to research how Minnesota State Headquartered Companies have performed on the stock market price front during the Obama Administration.

And yes, US Congressional Votes can have enormous consequences.

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 56 Minnesota 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 most recent date November 11, 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.



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
Minnesota HQs
11-11-16 3-6-09 12-31-07 11-11-16 3-6-09 11-11-16



$s $s $s











Select Comfort Minneapolis MN            21.45              0.20              7.01 10620% -97% 206%
Clearfield Plymouth MN            19.25              1.12              1.01 1619% 11% 1806%
Polaris Industries Medina MN            89.81              7.59            23.89 1084% -68% 276%
Winmark Minneapolis MN          106.80              9.02            21.00 1084% -57% 409%
Deluxe Corp Shoreview MN            66.38              6.47            32.89 926% -80% 102%
Life Time Fitness Chanhassen MN            72.07              7.50            49.68 861% -85% 45%
Toro Bloomington MN            49.40              5.29 13.61 834% -61% 263%
Vascular Solutions Minneapolis MN            50.10              5.40              6.50 828% -17% 671%
Tennant Co Minneapolis MN            74.30              8.23            44.29 803% -81% 68%
UnitedHealth Group Minnetonka MN          146.42            17.90            58.20 718% -69% 152%
Ameriprise Financial Minneapolis MN          110.85            14.20            55.11 681% -74% 101%
Valspar Minneapolis MN          102.40            15.76            22.54 550% -30% 354%
Arctic Cat Plymouth MN            15.11              2.43            11.94 522% -80% 27%
G&K Services Inc Minnetonka MN            96.01            15.77            37.52 509% -58% 156%
EVINE Live Minneapolis MN              2.08              0.35              6.29 494% -94% -67%
Graco Minneapolis MN            79.58            14.48            37.26 450% -61% 114%
US Bancorp Minneapolis MN            47.90              8.82            31.74 443% -72% 51%
Buffalo Wild Wings Minneapolis MN          161.90            30.05            23.22 439% 29% 597%
CyberOptics Golden Valley MN            26.45              5.00            11.98 429% -58% 121%
Apogee Enterprises Minneapolis MN            45.93              8.89            17.11 417% -48% 168%
HB Fuller St Paul MN            47.80            10.29            22.45 365% -54% 113%
Hormel Foods Austin MN            34.78              7.59            10.12 358% -25% 244%
Datalink Eden Prairie MN            11.17              2.61              3.69 328% -29% 203%
3M St Paul MN          175.08            41.83            84.32 319% -50% 108%
Ecolab St Paul MN          115.67            29.90            51.21 287% -42% 126%
Enventis Mankato MN            19.28              5.10              9.32 278% -45% 107%
Donaldson Co Minneapolis MN            40.05            11.31            23.19 254% -51% 73%
Hawkins Inc Roseville MN            45.00            12.95            15.00 247% -14% 200%
Piper Jaffray Minneapolis MN            65.80            19.30            46.32 241% -58% 42%
Fastenal Winona MN            44.28            13.19            20.21 236% -35% 119%
Pentair plc Minneapolis  MN             59.45            17.95            34.81 231% -48% 71%
Medtronic Minneapolis MN            82.07            24.92            50.27 229% -50% 63%
Travelers Saint Paul MN          110.28            34.44            53.80 220% -36% 105%
Hutchinson Technology Hutchinson MN              4.00              1.28            26.32 213% -95% -85%
Cardiovascular Systems St Paul MN            25.23              8.51            31.00 196% -73% -19%
Patterson St Paul MN            47.66            16.55            33.95 188% -51% 40%
Target Minneapolis MN            71.35            25.65            50.00 178% -49% 43%
Stratasys Ltd Eden Prairie MN            20.98              8.18            25.84 156% -68% -19%
St Jude Medical Saint Paul MN            79.40            32.37            40.64 145% -20% 95%
General Mills Minneapolis MN            61.04            25.48            28.50 140% -11% 114%
MTS Systems Eden Prairie MN            50.80            21.67            38.62 134% -44% 32%
Bio-Techne Minneapolis MN          106.49            46.98            66.05 127% -29% 61%
NVE Corp Eden Prairie MN            61.41            28.98            24.60 112% 18% 150%
CH Robinson Worldwide Eden Prairie MN            73.58            38.06            54.12 93% -30% 36%
Capella Education Minneapolis MN            83.05            46.74            65.46 78% -29% 27%
TCF Financial Wayzata MN            15.95              9.00            17.93 77% -50% -11%
OneBeacon Group Ltd Minnetonka MN            15.75              9.00            21.50 75% -58% -27%
Digi International Minnetonka MN            11.65              6.78            14.19 72% -52% -18%
SurModics Eden Prairie MN            28.55            16.87            54.27 69% -69% -47%
Best Buy Richfield MN            38.36            24.71            52.65 55% -53% -27%
ANI Pharmaceutics Baudette MN            57.57            46.44          136.08 24% -66% -58%
Regis Corp Minneapolis MN            13.73            11.20            27.96 23% -60% -51%
Digital River Minnetonka MN            25.99            25.53            33.07 2% -23% -21%
Northern Oil and Gas Wayzata MN              1.80              2.22              6.95 -19% -68% -74%
Mosaic Plymouth MN            27.41            39.16            94.34 -30% -58% -71%
SUPERVALU Eden Prairie MN              4.79            14.36            37.52 -67% -62% -87%









Average % Change all 56




535% -50% 128%



Posted by at