Takes your breath away

Not to be a glutton for punishment, but I just checked out a couple of dozen local stocks to see how disastrous the damage has been since the first of the year. As you would guess, everything is down, although the range is quite broad - from 7.8 percent (City National) to 80.5 percent (FirstFed). Quite a few stocks did better than the Dow (down 28.75 YTD) and S&P 500 (31.78 percent). Also, some sectors took big hits last year - homebuilding is a good example - so the they're not as bad as you might have expected. But it's still really bad.

Northrop -32.8%
Ducommun -54.6%
Guess -23.6%
Hot Topic -15.5%
Skechers -33.3%
Amgen -12.2%
Ryland -24.2%
Occidental -28.3%
FirstFed -80.5%
Hanmi Financial -52.9%
City National -7.8%
Health Net -60.2%
Disney -20.4%
Live Nation -11.8%
Mattel -15.3%
Sports Club -19.2%
Douglas Emmett -22.3%
CPK -30.9%
KB Home -21.7%
Cheesecake Factory -51.1%
DineEquity -65.3%
Activision -19.5%
THQ -68.6%


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Mark Lacter created the LA Biz Observed blog in 2006. He posted until the day before his death on Nov. 13, 2013.
 
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