Tampa/St Pete, FL Companies 2 Year 2014 and 2013 Audited Earnings Were $2.513 Bil, a $5.755 Bil Earnings Improvement From the 2 Year 2009 and 2008 Audited Losses of $3.242 Bil

From a very thorough review of SEC filings, I found 7 Companies headquartered in the Tampa/St Pete, Florida Area with Stock Market Capitalizations now of at least $1 bil and which have filed financial statements with the SEC which included earnings disclosures for all fiscal years from 2007 through the current year 2014.

So just how have these 7 largest Tampa/St Pete, Florida Area Companies done on the earnings front before, during and after the 2008 financial meltdown?  Just incredibly well.

The Two Year Total Audited Net Income from Continuing Operation of these 7 largest Tampa/St Pete, Florida Area Companies was $2.513 bil in their Two Most Recent Fiscal Years 2014 and 2013, an increase of a spectacular $5.755 bil over the $3.242 bil Two Year Total Losses generated by these same 7 companies in their 2009 and 2008 fiscal year ends.

Below here are the US GAAP Audited Net Income (Losses) of each of these 7 largest Tampa/St Pete, Florida Area Companies for all of their fiscal years from 2008 through 2014:

			2014	2013	2012	2011	2010	2009	2008
			Audited	Audited	Audited	Audited	Audited	Audited	Audited
			Net	Net	Net	Net	Net	Net	Net
		2014	Income	Income	Income	Income	Income	Income	Income
	City	FYE	(Loss)	(Loss)	(Loss)	(Loss)	(Loss)	(Loss)	(Loss)
Tampa/St Pete Area Co	HQs		mil $s	mil $s	mil $s	mil $s	mil $s	mil $s	mil $s
			$	$	$	$	$	$	$
Raymond James Financial	St Petersburg	Sep	448	397	292	268	223	140	231
Tech Data	Clearwater	Jan 15	175	180	183	217	219	181	115
HSN Inc	St Petersburg	Dec	173	178	136	123	99	72	(2,124)
Bloomin' Brands	Tampa	Dec	96	215	61	109	59	(65)	(866)
WellCare Health Plans	Tampa	Dec	64	175	185	264	(53)	40	(37)
Sykes Enterprises	Tampa	Dec	58	37	40	52	26	45	60
Jabil Circuit	St Petersburg	Aug	(2)	319	334	383	171	(1,166)	132
Total all 7			1,012	1,501	1,231	1,416	744	(753)	(2,489)
Two Years Earnings(Losses):
…2014 and 2013			2,513
…2009 and 2008			(3,242)
…. Two Year Earnings Improvement			5,755

As much as anyone, Tampa Area US House of Representatives Congresswoman Kathy Castor is responsible for the exceptional earnings improvement of these Tampa-St Pete Area Companies.

Tampa/St Pete Florida Companies Stock Market Prices Up 663% Since March 6, 2009

But it's not just Southeast Florida Companies stock market prices that have rocked since March 6, 2009.

Tampa-St Pete Companies average stock market prices have done even better ..... up 663%. All 13 of them are up, with the lowest stock market price appreciation being up 76%.

Below here are stock market prices today May 27, 2015, on March 6, 2009 and on December 31, 2007 for the 13 Tampa-St Pete Florida 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 27, 2015, 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
Tampa-St Pete Area Florida Co.	HQs		5-27-15	3-6-09	12-31-07	5-27-15	3-6-09	5-27-15
			$	$	$
Marinemax	Clearwater	FL	23.52	1.22	15.50	1828%	-92%	52%
HSN Inc	St Petersburg	FL	67.81	4.29	10.90	1481%	-61%	522%
WellCare Health Plans	Tampa	FL	83.10	6.64	42.41	1152%	-84%	96%
Quality Distribution	Tampa	FL	15.84	1.94	4.44	716%	-56%	257%
Jabil Circuit	St Petersburg	FL	24.66	3.26	15.27	656%	-79%	61%
Nicholas Financial	Clearwater	FL	13.46	1.86	6.57	622%	-72%	105%
Superior Uniform Group	Seminole	FL	18.81	2.69	4.98	599%	-46%	278%
Raymond James Financial	St Petersburg	FL	58.53	11.48	32.66	410%	-65%	79%
United Insurance Holdings	St Petersburg	FL	14.01	3.00	7.24	367%	-59%	94%
Kforce	Tampa	FL	21.98	5.59	9.75	293%	-43%	125%
Tech Data	Clearwater	FL	61.22	16.60	37.72	269%	-56%	62%
Walter Investment Management	Tampa	FL	16.31	6.50	19.00	151%	-66%	-14%
Sykes Enterprises	Tampa	FL	24.44	13.92	18.00	76%	-23%	36%
Average % Change all 13 Tampa-St Pete Florida Companies						663%	-62%	135%

As much as anyone, Tampa Area US House of Representatives Congresswoman Kathy Castor is responsible for the exceptional performance of these Tampa-St Pete Area Companies.

Massive Drop in Unemployment Rate in Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL Metro Area

The US Bureau of Labor reported that the unemployment rate for the Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area has dropped precipitously from 11.3% for the 2011 Average to only 5.5% in the most recently reported March 2015.

Southeast Florida Companies Stock Market Prices Up 628% Since March 6, 2009

Since President Obama will be present at several DNC Fundraisers in Southeast Florida today, I think it would be helpful to update how Southeast Florida Area Companies have been doing on the Stock Market Price Front.

Below here are stock market prices today May 27, 2015, on March 6, 2009 and on December 31, 2007 for the 38 Southeast Florida 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 27, 2015, 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
Southeast Florida Co.	HQs		5-27-15	3-6-09	12-31-07	5-27-15	3-6-09	5-27-15
			$	$	$
BFC Financial	Ft Lauderdale	FL	3.69	0.11	0.17	3255%	-35%	2071%
Opko Health	Miami	FL	17.89	0.80	2.85	2136%	-72%	528%
Dycom	Palm Beach Gardens	FL	58.58	3.72	26.65	1475%	-86%	120%
Federated National Holding	Sunrise	FL	26.08	1.72	13.44	1416%	-87%	94%
Office Depot	Boca Raton	FL	9.26	0.68	13.91	1262%	-95%	-33%
Royal Caribbean Cruises	Miami	FL	77.47	5.93	42.44	1206%	-86%	83%
Ultimate Software Group	Weston	FL	167.92	13.19	31.47	1173%	-58%	434%
Jarden	Boca Raton	FL	54.17	4.28	10.49	1167%	-59%	416%
B/E Aerospace	Wellington	FL	59.69	4.71	38.30	1167%	-88%	56%
ERBA Diagnostics	Miami	FL	2.73	0.32	0.49	753%	-35%	457%
Ladenburg Thalmann Fincl Svcs	Miami	FL	3.32	0.41	2.12	710%	-81%	57%
Lennar	Miami	FL	47.18	6.08	17.89	676%	-66%	164%
Universal Insurance Holdings	Fort Lauderdale	FL	25.73	3.44	7.41	648%	-54%	247%
Interval Leisure Group	Miami	FL	26.12	3.67	13.20	612%	-72%	98%
AutoNation	Fort Lauderdale	FL	63.28	9.72	15.66	551%	-38%	304%
Perry Ellis Intl	Miami	FL	25.19	3.94	15.38	539%	-74%	64%
HEICO	Hollywood	FL	59.09	9.40	22.32	529%	-58%	165%
SBA Communications	Boca Raton	FL	112.74	19.99	33.84	464%	-41%	233%
Hackett Group	Miami	FL	11.99	2.25	4.84	433%	-54%	148%
MEDNAX	Sunrise	FL	70.65	13.62	34.08	419%	-60%	107%
Stonegate Bank	Fort Lauderdale	FL	30.17	6.00	11.00	403%	-45%	174%
Ryder System	Miami	FL	94.77	19.41	47.01	388%	-59%	102%
Watsco	Coconut Grove	FL	127.00	31.95	36.76	297%	-13%	245%
Elizabeth Arden	Miramar	FL	14.84	4.29	20.35	246%	-79%	-27%
The GEO Group	Boca Raton	FL	38.15	11.75	28.00	225%	-58%	36%
Catalyst Pharmaceutical Partners	Coral Gables	FL	3.95	1.25	3.45	216%	-64%	14%
Citrix Systems	Ft Lauderdale	FL	65.90	21.76	38.01	203%	-43%	73%
Carnival	Miami	FL	47.59	17.30	44.49	175%	-61%	7%
National Beverage	Ft Lauderdale	FL	20.58	7.77	8.04	165%	-3%	156%
Equity One	North Miami Beach	FL	25.21	9.74	23.03	159%	-58%	9%
Steiner Leisure	Coral Gables	FL	48.34	19.34	44.16	150%	-56%	9%
Fresh Del Monte Produce	Coral Gables	FL	38.22	15.49	33.58	147%	-54%	14%
Vector Group	Miami	FL	22.13	9.21	14.97	140%	-38%	48%
Cross Country Healthcare	Boca Raton	FL	10.69	5.47	14.24	95%	-62%	-25%
World Fuel Services	Miami	FL	50.30	26.45	29.03	90%	-9%	73%
MasTec	Coral Gables	FL	17.55	10.31	10.17	70%	1%	73%
Seacor Holdings	Ft Lauderdale	FL	70.00	42.59	71.95	64%	-41%	-3%
PetMed Express	Pompano Beach	FL	16.59	13.66	12.10	21%	13%	37%
Average % Change all 38 Southeast Florida Companies						628%	-53%	180%

As you can easily see from the above chart, there has been something upwardly explosive happening with the stock market prices of Southeast Florida Companies and among others, President Obama, Florida US Senator Bill Nelson, and the 6 US House members serving these Southeast Florida Districts led by the superb DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz but also including Ted Deutch, Lois Frankel, Alcee Hastings, Patrick Murphy and Frederica Wilson, have all undoubtedly helped here.

All 38 of them have experienced stock market price appreciation since March 6, 2009.

And 9 of the 38, or 24% of them, had at least Ten-Bagger Stock Market Price Appreciation.