In deriving these US General Building Materials Corps, I first started with the very helpful Yahoo Finance Website General Building Materials Industry
The historical stock prices of these companies were obtained from the following two excellent internet resources.... Google Finance and MarketWatch Big Charts.
These 17 largest US General Building Materials Companies had their average stock prices drop by a huge 52% from December 31, 2007 during President Bush's second Presidential term, and very early in President Obama's first term 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 17 largest US General Building Materials Corps have increased by a very robust 390% through January 21, 2014.
Clearly, the investors in and employees of these 17 US largest General Building Materials Companies must be 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 17 largest US General Building Materials Companies on January 21, 2014, on March 6, 2009, and on December 31, 2007, sorted by Percentage Increase from March 6, 2009 to January 21, 2014:
| Market | Market | ||||||
| Price | Price | ||||||
| % | % | ||||||
| Change | Change | ||||||
| Market | Market | Market | 3-6-09 | 12-31-07 | |||
| Price | Price | Price | to | to | |||
| General Building Materials Co | HQs | 1-21-14 | 3-6-09 | 12-31-07 | 1-21-14 | 3-6-09 | |
| PGT Inc | North Venice | FL | 10.79 | 1.05 | 4.76 | 929% | -78% |
| Trex Co | Winchester | VA | 69.80 | 6.95 | 8.51 | 904% | -18% |
| Headwaters | South Jordan | UT | 10.76 | 1.39 | 11.74 | 674% | -88% |
| Owens Corning | Toledo | OH | 40.23 | 5.33 | 20.22 | 655% | -74% |
| USG Corp | Chicago | IL | 31.53 | 4.29 | 35.79 | 635% | -88% |
| Armstrong World Industries | Lancaster | PA | 59.87 | 10.22 | 40.11 | 486% | -75% |
| Masco | Taylor | MI | 22.02 | 3.90 | 21.61 | 465% | -82% |
| AAON Inc | Tulsa | OK | 33.43 | 6.79 | 8.81 | 393% | -23% |
| Apogee Enterprises | Minneapolis | MN | 37.07 | 8.89 | 17.11 | 317% | -48% |
| Beacon Roofing Supply | Herndon | VA | 40.47 | 10.84 | 8.42 | 273% | 29% |
| Fastenal | Winona | MN | 47.46 | 13.19 | 20.21 | 260% | -35% |
| US Lime & Minerals | Dallas | TX | 57.11 | 18.42 | 30.35 | 210% | -39% |
| Universal Forest Products | Grand Rapids | MI | 52.30 | 19.82 | 29.46 | 164% | -33% |
| Griffon | New York | NY | 14.06 | 6.15 | 12.45 | 129% | -51% |
| Vulcan Materials | Birmingham | AL | 59.98 | 35.82 | 79.09 | 67% | -55% |
| Martin Marietta Materials | Raleigh | NC | 109.47 | 69.96 | 132.60 | 56% | -47% |
| NCI Building Systems | Houston | TX | 19.93 | 17.21 | 143.95 | 16% | -88% |
| Average % Change all 17 | 390% | -52% |
