50 best performing large cap stocks 1976

Cummins (CMI) had the highest return in 1976 by a large-cap US stock, returning 147.1%.

ASSETYEAR% RETURN
Cummins (CMI)
1976
147.14%
Skyworks Solutions (SWKS)
1976
124.95%
Southwest Airlines (LUV)
1976
100%
Boeing (BA)
1976
90.04%
Carpenter Technology (CRS)
1976
66.86%
Eaton (ETN)
1976
55.02%
Consolidated Edison (ED)
1976
52.99%
Alcoa (AA)
1976
52.21%
CVS Health (CVS)
1976
48.65%
Chevron (CVX)
1976
48.21%
Ford Motor (F)
1976
47.06%
US Bancorp (USB)
1976
45.45%
Target (TGT)
1976
45.05%
W R Berkley (WRB)
1976
43.45%
CenterPoint Energy (CNP)
1976
43.09%
General Dynamics (GD)
1976
42.9%
Motorola Solutions (MSI)
1976
40.15%
Kroger (KR)
1976
39.78%
Carlisle Companies (CSL)
1976
37.41%
New York Times (NYT)
1976
36.85%
Textron (TXT)
1976
36.65%
Teradyne (TER)
1976
35.7%
Wells Fargo (WFC)
1976
35.49%
Halliburton (HAL)
1976
34.72%
American Electric Power (AEP)
1976
32.64%
Large-cap stocks are treated as having a market cap of $10B+.