The Demag Cranes AG share price largely tracked the general trend on international equity markets. It dropped by 6.5 percent overall, from EUR 26.25 on 1 October 2008 to EUR 24.54 on 30 September 2009. During the course of the financial year, the share price initially underperformed its benchmark indices, the MDAX and the DAX, but then outperformed them between November 2008 and the end of the reporting period.