A year-end rally meant that six St. Louis companies saw their stock prices rise in 2008, up from the four I highlighted in a previous post. Commerce Bancshares and Esco Technologies eked out gains to join the four solid performers…

Four St. Louis companies saw their stocks double in value during 2007, and three of them have to give some  credit to the alternative-energy craze. MEMC Electronic Materials, up 126 percent, is considered a solar-energy play because its silicon wafers…

Zoltek waited until just before the Memorial Day weekend to tell the SEC  it fired PriceWaterhouse as its auditor. Grant Thornton now has the job of checking Zoltek’s books.

MarketWatch blogger Herb Greenberg pricked up his ears at the switch, saying it is

worth watching, especially…

Zoltek Chief Executive Zsolt Rumy’s salary has been stuck at $225,000 for more than four years, but that changed as of last August. In  a proxy statement filed last week, the carbon-fiber company discloses that Rumy was given a raise to…

I don’t know of anyone who invests solely in stocks based on geographical proximity, but based on 20-20 hindsight, a Mound-City-centric  portfolio would have been a winner in 2006. The Bloomberg St. Louis Index of 45 local stocks is up 19.8…