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If You Invested $10K in These Reliable Stocks During the Great Recession, Here’s What You’d Have Today

March 31, 2025

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Written by Vance Cariaga

Edited by Jenna Klaverweiden

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The Great Recession of 2007-2009 might be fading fast into the rearview mirror, but for many Americans, the financial wounds still linger. Millions of homeowners faced foreclosure because of the accompanying housing crisis. Others panicked during the period’s stock market crash and wound up selling stocks at a loss.

Considering the massive impact the Great Recession had on the economy and stock market, it’s easy to forget that it didn’t really last that long — at least compared with previous collapses like the Great Depression. The Great Recession began in December 2007, according to the Federal Reserve, and ended around mid-2009.

Since then, the economy has mostly righted itself, with the normal ups and downs. Meanwhile, the stock market has come roaring back with a vengeance, consistently setting new highs that continue well into this decade.

If you had weathered the storm during the Great Recession and held on to your stocks instead of selling them off, chances are you’re a lot wealthier now than you were then.

The following are five stocks that have soared in value since the waning days of the Great Recession. If you had invested a total of $10,000 in these stocks in August 2009 — or $2,000 each — and still held them today, that initial investment would have ballooned to a staggering $442,503.

Here’s a look at each stock and how much its value has grown over the past 15-plus years based on how many shares you could have purchased with a $2,000 investment. None have gone through stock splits since the Great Recession, so current values are based solely on share price growth.

Also see what to invest in during a recession.