If You Invested $1,000 in Gilead Sciences During the Last Recession, This Is How Much

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If you had invested $1,000 in shares of biotech giant Gilead Sciences (NASDAQ: GILD) before the Great Recession in 2008, your investment would have grown to $2,849 as of July 13. If we were to include Gilead's dividend yield of between 2% and 3.6% per year, then the final amount would be even higher, at $3,278.31. Gilead bested the S&P 500's capital gain of 155% during the same period.