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Majority of AZ stocks move up in 4Q

Thirteen of Arizona’s 21 billion-dollar public companies saw their stock prices move up during the fourth quarter.

Seven of the companies posted double-digit gains, with Clear Channel Outdoor leading the pack at 58 percent, according to the Phoenix Business Journal’s analysis of prices from Sept. 30 through 30 through Dec. 18.

Penny stock Mesa Air Group mirrored that performance with a 58 percent decline to lead the group of eight companies with a drop in price per share over the quarter.

Over the same period the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 6.4 percent and the Nasdaq Composite moved up 4.2 percent.

The Arizona group did better when price changed is measured over all of 2009, but all but four of the stocks still lag from the end of 2007. Click here for the 2009 wrapup and here for a two-year look at local stocks.

Stock gainers for fourth-quarter 2009

Company Price Sept. 30 Price Dec. 18 Percent change

  1. Clear Channel Outdoor $7.00 $11.06 58%
  2. PetsMart $21.75 $27.25 25%
  3. P.F. Chang’s $33.97 $38.55 13%
  4. Pinnacle West $32.82 $37.13 13%
  5. Avnet Inc. $25.97 $29.09 12%
  6. Amerco $45 emergency payday loan.86 $51.20 12%
  7. Freeport-McMoRan $68.61 $76.54 12%
  8. Microchip Technology $26.50 $28.42 7.3%
  9. Republic Services $26.57 $27.83 4.7%
  10. UniSource Energy $30.75 $32.10 4.4%
  11. Southern Copper $30.69 $32.01 4.3%
  12. ON Semiconductor $8.25 $8.28 0.4%
  13. Viad Corp. $19.91 $19.94 0.2%

Stock losers for fourth-quarter 2009

Company Price Sept. 30 Price Dec. 18 Percent change

  1. Mesa Air Group $0.26 $0.11 -58%
  2. Apollo Group $73.67 $58.40 -21%
  3. Meritage Homes $20.30 $17.38 -14%
  4. First Solar $152.86 $135.67 -11%
  5. Amkor Technology $6.88 $6.48 -5.8%
  6. Insight Enterprises $12.21 $11.53 -5.6%
  7. US Airways Group $4.70 $4.53 -3.6%
  8. RSC Holdings $7.27 $7,08 -2.6%

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