Southwest Airlines (LUV) had the highest return in 1980 by a US stock in the S&P 500 (GSPC), returning 143.1%.

best performing stocks in the sandp 1980
ASSET YEAR % RETURN
Southwest Airlines (LUV) 1980 143.09%
Union Pacific (UNP) 1980 119.9%
PulteGroup (PHM) 1980 116.95%
Halliburton (HAL) 1980 100.14%
FedEx (FDX) 1980 99.44%
Analog Devices (ADI) 1980 93.68%
Hess (HES) 1980 86.06%
Revvity (RVTY) 1980 85.14%
Walmart (WMT) 1980 82.8%
Sysco (SYY) 1980 78.14%
Chevron (CVX) 1980 76.49%
Hasbro (HAS) 1980 66.67%
Abbott Laboratories (ABT) 1980 58.02%
Becton Dickinson and (BDX) 1980 57.15%
APA (APA) 1980 57.07%
Marathon Oil (MRO) 1980 52.68%
HP (HPQ) 1980 52.57%
PNC Financial Services (PNC) 1980 51.22%
PPG Industries (PPG) 1980 50.92%
Automatic Data Processing (ADP) 1980 50.02%
Raytheon Technologies (RTX) 1980 48.35%
Occidental Petroleum (OXY) 1980 47.34%
Motorola Solutions (MSI) 1980 46.43%
General Dynamics (GD) 1980 43.93%
Altria (MO) 1980 42.25%

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