Wednesday, November 16, 2016

San Francisco Bay Area and Silicon Valley Area Companies Average Stock Market Prices Up 681% Since March 6, 2009, a Month and a Half After President Obama Took Office, Even After the Trump Presidency Has Crushed the Stock Market Prices of the World's Very Best Technology Companies

Since the Silicon Valley Area has a truly outstanding US Congress person Zoe Lofgren who just doesn't blindly vote on the politically expedient option.....like the country-dividing PATH ACT of 2015.....but on very substantive legislation votes on what is best for the entire country, I think I would like to research how San Francisco Bay Area and Silicon Valley 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 199 San Francisco Bay and Silicon Valley Areas 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 2008 for companies first going public then, through the most recent date November 15, 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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Change Change Change



Market Market Market 3-6-09 12-31-07 12-31-07
San Francisco Bay and

Price Price Price to to to
Silicon Valley Area Cos City Hqs Area 11-15-16 3-6-09 12-31-07 11-15-16 3-6-09 11-15-16



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Pharmacyclics Sunnyvale SF          261.25              0.86              1.45 30,281% -41% 17917%
Jazz Pharmaceuticals Palo Alto SF          112.35              0.62            14.70 18,021% -96% 664%
8x8 Inc San Jose SF            14.90              0.46              0.89 3139% -48% 1574%
IRIDEX Mountain View SF            15.96              0.56              2.45 2750% -77% 551%
Sanmina San Jose SF            31.20              1.20            10.92 2500% -89% 186%
KKR Financial Holdings San Francisco SF            11.54              0.48            14.05 2304% -97% -18%
Medivation San Francisco SF            81.44              3.82              3.60 2032% 6% 2162%
Netflix Los Gatos SF          113.59              5.45              3.80 1984% 43% 2889%
PDF Solutions San Jose SF            20.56              0.99              9.01 1977% -89% 128%
Nanometrics Milpitas SF            22.90              1.11              9.86 1963% -89% 132%
iGATE Fremont SF            48.00              2.56              8.47 1775% -70% 467%
Integrated Silicon Solution Milpitas SF            22.91              1.38              6.62 1560% -79% 246%
Hennessy Advisors Novato SF            31.97              2.00            12.00 1499% -83% 166%
Align Technology San Jose SF            93.95              6.41            16.68 1366% -62% 463%
Cellular Biomedicine Group Palo Alto SF            14.20              1.00            10.00 1320% -90% 42%
Finisar Sunnyvale SF            31.70              2.24            11.60 1315% -81% 173%
SVB Financial Group Santa Clara SF          150.92            12.06            50.40 1151% -76% 199%
Seagate Technology Cupertino SF            38.51              3.11            25.50 1138% -88% 51%
Alliance Fiber Optic Products Sunnyvale SF            18.51              1.60              5.05 1057% -68% 267%
NetSuite San Mateo SF            90.34              8.15            39.18 1008% -79% 131%
Fair Isaac San Jose SF          111.42            10.09            32.15 1004% -69% 247%
NVIDIA Santa Clara SF            86.19              8.39            34.02 927% -75% 153%
DepoMed Newark SF            21.47              2.12              3.26 913% -35% 559%
Salesforce.com San Francisco SF            74.02              7.52            15.67 885% -52% 372%
SanDisk Milpitas SF            76.18              7.79            33.17 878% -77% 130%
Corcept Therapeutics Menlo Park SF              9.51              1.00              3.09 851% -68% 208%
SciClone Pharmaceuticals Foster City SF            10.25              1.08              2.06 849% -48% 398%
Ultra Clean Holdings Hayward SF              9.15              0.97            12.20 843% -92% -25%
Cepheid Sunnyvale SF            52.95              5.64            26.35 839% -79% 101%
The Cooper Companies Pleasanton SF          171.95            18.33            38.00 838% -52% 353%
BioMarin Pharmaceutical San Rafael SF            92.21            10.22            35.40 802% -71% 160%
Aruba Networks Sunnyvale SF            24.67              2.76            14.91 794% -81% 65%
Apple Cupertino SF          107.11            12.19            28.30 779% -57% 279%
Coherent Santa Clara SF          126.99            14.74            25.07 762% -41% 407%
Mattson Technology Fremont SF              3.60              0.42              8.56 757% -95% -58%
Ross Stores Pleasanton SF            63.09              7.37              6.40 756% 15% 886%
Core-Mark Holding South San Francisco SF            35.60              4.23              7.18 742% -41% 396%
SYNNEX Fremont SF          112.84            13.87            19.60 714% -29% 476%
Cerus Concord SF              5.70              0.71              6.51 703% -89% -12%
Equinix Redwood City SF          336.34            42.95          101.07 683% -58% 233%
Affymetrix Santa Clara SF            14.01              1.89            23.14 641% -92% -39%
Flextronics San Jose SF            13.95              1.94            12.06 619% -84% 16%
Callidus Software Pleasanton SF            16.80              2.43              5.17 591% -53% 225%
Cadence Design Systems San Jose SF            25.44              3.70            17.01 588% -78% 50%
Fairchild Semiconductor San Jose SF            19.86              2.89            14.43 587% -80% 38%
Adept Technology Pleasanton SF            12.98              1.89              7.95 587% -76% 63%
Bridge Capital Holdings San Jose SF            29.80              4.34            21.48 587% -80% 39%
Williams-Sonoma San Francisco SF            51.85              7.60            25.90 582% -71% 100%
Intuitive Surgical Sunnyvale SF          640.55            95.89          323.00 568% -70% 98%
eBay Inc San Jose SF            28.49              4.39            13.97 549% -69% 104%
Shutterfly Inc Redwood City SF            49.66              7.72            25.62 543% -70% 94%
Natus Medical San Carlos SF            42.80              6.69            19.35 540% -65% 121%
First Republic Bank San Francisco SF            83.34            13.09            25.59 537% -49% 226%
Visa San Francisco SF            78.57            12.55            14.10 526% -11% 457%
Autodesk San Rafael SF            75.15            12.02            49.76 525% -76% 51%
Monolithic Power Systems San Jose SF            80.20            12.91            21.47 521% -40% 274%
Wells Fargo San Francisco SF            52.59              8.61            30.19 511% -71% 74%
Viavi Solutions Milpitas SF              7.90              1.30              7.57 508% -83% 4%
Oclaro San Jose SF              8.81              1.46            11.90 505% -88% -26%
Adobe Systems San Jose SF          103.66            17.16            42.73 504% -60% 143%
Saba Software Redwood Shores SF              8.82              1.51              5.14 484% -71% 72%
Mellanox Technologies Ltd Sunnyvale SF            45.00              7.75            18.22 481% -57% 147%
Brocade Communication Systems San Jose SF            12.39              2.16              7.34 474% -71% 69%
CEVA Inc Mountain View SF            29.95              5.23            12.21 473% -57% 145%
Integrated Device Technology San Jose SF            23.98              4.21            11.31 470% -63% 112%
Electronics for Imaging Fremont SF            44.50              8.20            22.48 443% -64% 98%
Intermune Brisbane SF            73.89            13.63            13.33 442% 2% 454%
Super Micro Computer San Jose SF            25.70              4.84              7.67 431% -37% 235%
Cavium San Jose SF            55.64            10.59            23.02 425% -54% 142%
Lam Research Fremont SF          101.12            19.29            43.23 424% -55% 134%
TIBCO Software Palo Alto SF            24.03              4.66              8.07 416% -42% 198%
Netgear San Jose SF            51.75            10.11            35.67 412% -72% 45%
eGain Sunnyvale SF              2.55              0.50              0.45 410% 11% 467%
Electronic Arts Redwood City SF            77.62            15.31            58.41 407% -74% 33%
Exponent Menlo Park SF            61.53            12.17            13.52 406% -10% 355%
Alphabet (Google) Mountain View SF          775.16          154.44          346.09 402% -55% 124%
Agilent Technologies Santa Clara SF            45.40              9.05            26.28 402% -66% 73%
Jamba Inc Emeryville SF            10.02              2.00            18.50 401% 0% -46%
KLA-Tencor Milpitas SF            77.75            15.63            48.16 397% -68% 61%
Prologis San Francisco SF            48.04              9.72            57.56 394% -83% -17%
Intuit Mountain View SF          110.90            23.23            31.61 377% -27% 251%
Trimble Navigation Sunnyvale SF            28.66              6.22            15.12 361% -59% 90%
Glu Mobile San Francisco SF              2.06              0.46              5.22 348% -91% -61%
OmniVision Technologies Santa Clara SF            29.38              6.65            15.65 342% -58% 88%
Central Garden & Pet Walnut Creek SF            27.83              6.30              5.76 342% 9% 383%
Omnicell Mountain View SF            32.10              7.31            26.93 339% -73% 19%
VeriFone Systems San Jose SF            17.47              4.02            23.25 335% -83% -25%
Riverbed Technology San Francisco SF            20.99              4.97            13.37 323% -63% 57%
Fly Leasing Ltd San Francisco SF            12.68              3.00            18.21 323% -84% -30%
LSI Corp San Jose SF            11.14              2.64              9.00 322% -71% 24%
Informatica Redwood City SF            48.73            11.64            18.02 319% -35% 170%
FNB Bancorp South San Francisco SF            32.50              7.80            16.23 317% -52% 100%
Move Inc San Jose SF            20.95              5.04              9.80 316% -49% 114%
VMware Palo Alto SF            78.25            19.89            84.99 293% -77% -8%
Check Point Software Redwood City SF            82.70            21.04            21.96 293% -4% 277%
Essex Property Trust Palo Alto SF          214.79            55.19            97.49 289% -43% 120%
Oplink Communications Fremont SF            24.23              6.24            15.35 288% -59% 58%
Exelixis South San Francisco SF            16.55              4.34              8.63 281% -50% 92%
Extreme Networks San Jose SF              4.66              1.23              3.54 279% -65% 32%
Hercules Capital Palo Alto SF            13.53              3.62            12.42 274% -71% 9%
Tessera Technologies San Jose SF            39.45            10.70            41.60 269% -74% -5%
Immersion Corp San Jose SF              9.64              2.62            12.95 268% -80% -26%
McKesson San Francisco SF          142.87            39.38            65.51 263% -40% 118%
Power Integrations San Jose SF            65.50            18.40            34.43 256% -47% 90%
Gilead Sciences Foster City SF            76.35            22.01            23.01 247% -4% 232%
Bank of Marin Bancorp Novato SF            61.75            17.80            29.25 247% -39% 111%
CAI Intl San Francisco SF              9.10              2.63            10.52 246% -75% -13%
Silicon Image Sunnyvale SF              7.28              2.11              4.52 245% -53% 61%
SINA Corp Sunnyvale SF            67.68            19.63            44.31 245% -56% 53%
Digital Realty Trust San Francisco SF            90.61            26.33            38.37 244% -31% 136%
Maxim Integrated Products San Jose SF            39.41            11.49            26.48 243% -57% 49%
Synopsys Mountain View SF            60.07            17.53            25.93 243% -32% 132%
Altera San Jose SF            53.96            15.77            19.32 242% -18% 179%
Applied Materials Santa Clara SF            29.61              8.70            17.76 240% -51% 67%
Advent Software San Francisco SF            44.24            13.04            27.05 239% -52% 64%
BRE Properties San Francisco SF            61.00            18.28            40.53 234% -55% 51%
Nektar Therapeutics San Francisco SF            13.93              4.21              6.71 231% -37% 108%
Abaxis Union City SF            52.99            16.14            35.86 228% -55% 48%
Charles Schwab San Francisco SF            37.20            11.36            25.55 227% -56% 46%
Advanced Micro Devices Sunnyvale SF              6.97              2.14              7.50 226% -71% -7%
Simpson Manufacturing Pleasanton SF            45.04            13.92            26.59 224% -48% 69%
Varian Medical Systems Palo Alto SF            89.36            27.73            52.16 222% -47% 71%
Willis Lease Finance Novato SF            26.74              8.49            12.54 215% -32% 113%
Bio-Rad Laboratories Hercules SF          172.96            54.97          103.62 215% -47% 67%
Landec Menlo Park SF            13.90              4.45            13.40 212% -67% 4%
Logitech Intl SA Newark SF            24.76              8.01            36.64 209% -78% -32%
Yahoo! Sunnyvale SF            40.21            13.05            23.26 208% -44% 73%
Heritage Commerce San Jose SF            11.96              3.92            18.39 205% -79% -35%
The Gap San Francisco SF            29.84              9.85            21.28 203% -54% 40%
Robert Half Intl Menlo Park SF            43.64            14.41            27.04 203% -47% 61%
Thoratec Pleasanton SF            63.50            20.97            18.19 203% 15% 249%
Pericom Semiconductor Milpitas SF            17.74              5.86            18.70 203% -69% -5%
Xilinx San Jose SF            53.93            17.82            21.87 203% -19% 147%
Franklin Resources San Mateo SF            38.91            12.89            38.14 202% -66% 2%
Raptor Pharmaceutical Novato SF              9.00              3.06            38.93 194% -92% -77%
Linear Technology Milpitas SF            61.02            21.60            31.83 183% -32% 92%
Intel Santa Clara SF            34.91            12.41            26.66 181% -53% 31%
DSP Group San Jose SF            12.05              4.42            12.20 173% -64% -1%
PLX Technology Sunnyvale SF              6.50              2.39              9.30 172% -74% -30%
Oracle Redwood City SF            39.17            14.47            22.58 171% -36% 73%
NetApp Sunnyvale SF            34.87            12.90            24.96 170% -48% 40%
Atmel Corp San Jose SF              8.14              3.11              4.32 162% -28% 88%
Exchange Bank Santa Rosa SF          103.00            40.00          112.00 158% -64% -8%
Impax Laboratories Hayward SF            14.30              5.60            11.10 155% -50% 29%
Synaptics San Jose SF            55.16            21.84            27.44 153% -20% 101%
Clorox Oakland SF          114.18            46.78            65.17 144% -28% 75%
Cutera Brisbane SF            13.95              5.75            15.70 143% -63% -11%
Energy Recovery San Leandro SF            11.41              4.72              9.83 142% -52% 16%
Ultratech San Jose SF            23.34            10.03            11.34 133% -12% 106%
GSI Technology Sunnyvale SF              5.06              2.25              2.55 125% -12% 98%
Safeway Pleasanton SF            35.10            15.69            30.63 124% -49% 15%
Cisco Systems San Jose SF            31.70            14.18            27.07 124% -48% 17%
Intersil Milpitas SF            22.10              9.99            24.48 121% -59% -10%
Silicon Graphics Fremont SF              7.75              3.51            10.00 121% -65% -23%
Actuate San Mateo SF              6.60              3.03              7.77 118% -61% -15%
PMC-Sierra Sunnyvale SF            11.65              5.35              6.54 118% -18% 78%
Applied Micro Circuits Sunnyvale SF              7.50              3.47              8.74 116% -60% -14%
Textainer Group Holdings San Francisco SF              9.40              4.38            14.53 115% -70% -35%
Micrel San Jose SF            13.86              6.49              8.45 114% -23% 64%
BioTime Alameda SF              3.58              1.70              0.41 111% 315% 773%
Procera Networks Fremont SF            11.50              5.50            14.00 109% -61% -18%
Juniper Networks Sunnyvale SF            26.10            12.67            33.20 106% -62% -21%
Quantum San Jose SF              0.81              0.41              2.69 98% -85% -70%
Cypress Semiconductor San Jose SF            10.75              5.51              7.79 95% -29% 38%
Symantec Mountain View SF            24.22            12.93            16.14 87% -20% 50%
Chevron San Ramon SF          108.96            58.27            93.33 87% -38% 17%
Exar Corp Fremont SF              9.93              5.36              7.97 85% -33% 25%
Polycom San Jose SF            12.47              6.76            13.89 85% -51% -10%
Supertex Sunnyvale SF            32.98            18.67            31.29 77% -40% 5%
Westamerica Banc San Rafael SF            60.26            34.36            44.55 75% -23% 35%
IXYS Corp Milpitas SF            11.10              6.52              8.02 70% -19% 38%
ShoreTel Sunnyvale SF              7.05              4.15            13.97 70% -70% -50%
Genomic Health Redwood City SF            33.13            19.57            22.64 69% -14% 46%
iPass Redwood Shores SF              1.55              0.93              4.06 67% -77% -62%
Marvell Technology Santa Clara SF            13.43              8.06            13.98 67% -42% -4%
Rambus Sunnyvale SF            12.98              7.84            20.94 66% -63% -38%
Dolby Laboratories San Francisco SF            47.25            29.13            49.72 62% -41% -5%
URS Corp San Francisco SF            54.20            33.82            54.33 60% -38% 0%
Intevac Santa Clara SF              6.35              3.97            14.54 60% -73% -56%
ARC Document Solutions Walnut Creek SF              4.28              2.86            16.48 50% -83% -74%
Rovi Corp Santa Clara SF            22.42            15.13            18.33 48% -17% 22%
Infinera Corp Sunnyvale SF              8.69              5.95            14.84 46% -60% -41%
Sangamo Biosciences Richmond SF              4.35              2.99            13.02 45% -77% -67%
JMP Group San Francisco SF              5.97              4.15              8.48 44% -51% -30%
Tivo Corp San Carlos SF            21.00            15.13            18.33 39% -17% 15%
Accuray Sunnyvale SF              5.40              4.09            15.22 32% -73% -65%
HP Inc Palo Alto SF            15.87            12.25            23.71 30% -48% -33%
Redwood Trust Mill Valley SF            15.01            12.45            34.24 21% -64% -56%
Harmonic San Jose SF              4.60              4.59            10.48 0% -56% -56%
DURECT Cupertino SF              1.40              1.54              6.43 -9% -76% -78%
Cytokinetics South San Francisco SF            11.10            12.36            28.38 -10% -56% -61%
Dynavax Technologies Berkeley SF              4.75              5.50            51.10 -14% -89% -91%
eHealth Mountain View SF            10.05            13.32            32.11 -25% -59% -69%
Rigel Pharmaceuticals South San Francisco SF              2.88              4.40            25.39 -35% -83% -89%
Geron Menlo Park SF              2.22              3.66              5.37 -39% -32% -59%
Sigma Designs Milpitas SF              8.20            15.10            55.20 -46% -73% -85%
Xenoport Santa Clara SF              7.07            18.09            55.88 -61% -68% -87%
VIVUS Mountain View SF              1.10              3.10              5.18 -65% -40% -79%
SunPower Corp San Jose SF              7.19            23.39          130.39 -69% -82% -94%









Average % Change all 199




681% -53% 216%

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.  Just sayin!

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.  Again just sayin!

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.