diff --git a/integration_tests/__tests__/__snapshots__/stack_trace-test.js.snap b/integration_tests/__tests__/__snapshots__/stack_trace-test.js.snap
index 7c69c1c5616a..da982fbd5eb9 100644
--- a/integration_tests/__tests__/__snapshots__/stack_trace-test.js.snap
+++ b/integration_tests/__tests__/__snapshots__/stack_trace-test.js.snap
@@ -36,6 +36,15 @@ Ran all test suites matching \\"test-error-test.js\\".
 "
 `;
 
+exports[`Stack Trace prints a stack trace for errors without message in stack trace 1`] = `
+"Test Suites: 1 failed, 1 total
+Tests:       1 failed, 1 total
+Snapshots:   0 total
+Time:        <<REPLACED>>
+Ran all test suites matching \\"stack-trace-without-message-test.js\\".
+"
+`;
+
 exports[`Stack Trace prints a stack trace for matching errors 1`] = `
 "Test Suites: 1 failed, 1 total
 Tests:       1 failed, 1 total
diff --git a/integration_tests/__tests__/stack_trace-test.js b/integration_tests/__tests__/stack_trace-test.js
index 4d46f446cfeb..8015311b1a1e 100644
--- a/integration_tests/__tests__/stack_trace-test.js
+++ b/integration_tests/__tests__/stack_trace-test.js
@@ -93,6 +93,21 @@ describe('Stack Trace', () => {
     );
   });
 
+  it('prints a stack trace for errors without message in stack trace', () => {
+    const result = runJest('stack_trace', [
+      'stack-trace-without-message-test.js',
+    ]);
+    const stderr = result.stderr.toString();
+
+    expect(extractSummary(stderr).summary).toMatchSnapshot();
+    expect(result.status).toBe(1);
+
+    expect(stderr).toMatch(/important message/);
+    expect(stderr).toMatch(
+      /\s+at\s(?:.+?)\s\(__tests__\/stack-trace-without-message-test\.js/,
+    );
+  });
+
   it('does not print a stack trace for errors when --noStackTrace is given', () => {
     const result = runJest('stack_trace', [
       'test-error-test.js',
diff --git a/integration_tests/stack_trace/__tests__/stack-trace-without-message-test.js b/integration_tests/stack_trace/__tests__/stack-trace-without-message-test.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..e40e5a0fe7f1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/integration_tests/stack_trace/__tests__/stack-trace-without-message-test.js
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+/**
+ * Copyright (c) 2014-present, Facebook, Inc. All rights reserved.
+ *
+ * This source code is licensed under the BSD-style license found in the
+ * LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree. An additional grant
+ * of patent rights can be found in the PATENTS file in the same directory.
+ */
+'use strict';
+
+test('fails with error without proper message', () => {
+  const error = new Error('important message');
+  error.stack = error.stack.replace('Error: important message', 'Error   ');
+  throw error;
+});
diff --git a/packages/jest-jasmine2/src/reporter.js b/packages/jest-jasmine2/src/reporter.js
index d575571e6a70..9ade7625f078 100644
--- a/packages/jest-jasmine2/src/reporter.js
+++ b/packages/jest-jasmine2/src/reporter.js
@@ -129,6 +129,21 @@ class Jasmine2Reporter {
     return this._resultsPromise;
   }
 
+  _addMissingMessageToStack(stack: string, message: ?string) {
+    // Some errors (e.g. Angular injection error) don't prepend error.message
+    // to stack, instead the first line of the stack is just plain 'Error'
+    const ERROR_REGEX = /^Error\s*\n/;
+    if (
+      stack &&
+      message &&
+      ERROR_REGEX.test(stack) &&
+      stack.indexOf(message) === -1
+    ) {
+      return message + stack.replace(ERROR_REGEX, '\n');
+    }
+    return stack;
+  }
+
   _extractSpecResults(
     specResult: SpecResult,
     ancestorTitles: Array<string>,
@@ -150,7 +165,7 @@ class Jasmine2Reporter {
 
     specResult.failedExpectations.forEach(failed => {
       const message = !failed.matcherName && failed.stack
-        ? failed.stack
+        ? this._addMissingMessageToStack(failed.stack, failed.message)
         : failed.message || '';
       results.failureMessages.push(message);
     });