
Unlike other names on this list. Best Buy’s comeback has occurred more recently than 2009. Bust Buy shares traded as low as $10.51 in late 2012. Over the past few years, Best Buy has worked to re-define its business and make strides to compete with lower-priced rivals such as Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN). Shares are now up 226 percent from their 2012 low.
2. T-Mobile US Inc (NYSE: TMUS)
T-Mobile’s future seemed far from certain when the stock hit $7.26 per share in 2009, but T-Mobile found a way to hang on and continue to compete for market share with Sprint Corp (NYSE: S), Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) and AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T). T-Mobile shares are now up more than 405 percent from 2009 lows.
3. Micron Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: MU)
Micron shares dipped as low as $1.59 in late 2008. At the time, it looked like the company might not make it through the market downturn. However, the stock has since recovered to $27.33, a nearly 1,620 percent gain.
4. Rite Aid Corporation (NYSE: RAD)
Rite Aid shares dipped as low as $0.20 in March of 2009. The stock is now trading at more than $8.50 per share, a 4,180 percent gain. Despite the comeback, Rite Aid shares are still a far cry from their all-time highs of over $40 per share in the late 1990s.
5. Sirius XM Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRI)
Sirius was likely a matter of days from going under during the Financial Crisis, but last-minute rescue financing from John Malone saved the company. Incredibly, Sirius’s stock dipped as low as $0.052 per share in early 2009. While it remains under $4.00 to this day, the stock has gained 7,419 percent from its low point.
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