10 Largest US Farm & Construction Machinery Corps Average Stock Prices Down 71% Due to Financial Meltdown Spillover Effects, Then Up 354% Under Obama and the US Fed

I found 10 US Farm & Construction Machinery Corps with current Total Market Capitalizations of at least $100 mil each and which also had their common stocks trading on each of the following three dates: on December 31, 2007 during President Bush's second term, on March 6, 2009, very early in President Obama's first term, which was their lowest point due to the spillover effects resulting from the 2008 financial meltdown, and also on January 17, 2014.

In deriving these US Farm & Construction Machinery Corps, I first started with the very helpful Yahoo Finance Website Farm & Construction Machinery Industry

The historical stock prices of these companies were obtained from the following two excellent internet resources....  Google Finance and MarketWatch Big Charts.

These 10 largest US Farm & Construction Machinery Companies had their average stock prices drop by a massive 71% from December 31, 2007 during President Bush's second Presidential term, and very early in President Obama's first term, or on March 6, 2009, which was the very lowest point due to the spillover effects resulting from the disastrous 2008 Financial Meltdown.

But since March 6, 2009, the average stock prices of these same 10 largest US Farm & Construction Machinery Corps have increased by a very impressive 354% through January 17, 2014.  And the lowest increase was a very robust 92%.

Clearly, the investors in and employees of these 10 US largest US Farm & Construction Machinery Companies must be very pleased with the impact of actions taken by both the Obama Administration and the US Fed to successfully rescue the US economy from its extremely weakened state caused by the 2008 US financial meltdown.
  
Below here are the market prices of each of these 10 largest US Farm & Construction Machinery Companies on January 17, 2014, on March 6, 2009, and on December 31, 2007, sorted by Percentage Increase from March 6, 2009 to January 17, 2014:

						Market	Market
						Price	Price
						%	%
						Change	Change
			Market	Market	Market	3-6-09	12-31-07
			Price	Price	Price	to	to
Farm&Construction Machinery Co	HQs		1-17-14	3-6-09	12-31-07	1-17-14	3-6-09
Manitowoc	Manitowoc	WI	25.60	2.42	48.83	958%	-95%
Alamo Group	Sequin	TX	56.50	10.05	18.12	462%	-45%
Terex	Westport	CT	42.14	7.63	65.57	452%	-88%
Caterpillar	Peoria	IL	91.44	23.23	72.56	294%	-68%
Lindsay Corp	Omaha	NE	84.49	22.35	70.69	278%	-68%
Columbus McKinnon	Amherst	NY	26.09	7.10	32.62	267%	-78%
AGCO Corp	Duluth	GA	55.41	15.10	67.98	267%	-78%
Deere	Moline	IL	89.35	25.51	93.12	250%	-73%
Joy Global	Milwaukee	WI	56.23	17.58	65.82	220%	-73%
Astec Industries	Chattanooga	TN	39.91	20.82	37.19	92%	-44%
Average % Change all 10						354%	-71%