best large cap stocks last 41 years

Booking (BKNG) has had the highest return between February 10, 1985 and February 10, 2026 by a large-cap US stock, returning 1,412,349,833.3%.

ASSETDATE% RETURN
Booking (BKNG)
2/10/1985 - 2/10/2026
1,412,349,833.33%
Johnson Controls International (JCI)
2/10/1985 - 2/10/2026
138,999,900%
AngloGold Ashanti (AU)
2/10/1985 - 2/10/2026
21,437,900%
Nike (NKE)
2/10/1985 - 2/10/2026
2,151,968.97%
Altria (MO)
2/10/1985 - 2/10/2026
2,077,319.35%
QXO (QXO)
2/10/1985 - 2/10/2026
1,371,076.47%
Microsoft (MSFT)
2/10/1985 - 2/10/2026
697,370.49%
NVIDIA (NVDA)
2/10/1985 - 2/10/2026
473,815.21%
Amgen (AMGN)
2/10/1985 - 2/10/2026
432,374.11%
Aegon NV ADR (AEG)
2/10/1985 - 2/10/2026
329,900%
Oracle (ORCL)
2/10/1985 - 2/10/2026
309,366.4%
Apple (AAPL)
2/10/1985 - 2/10/2026
263,198.18%
Fastenal (FAST)
2/10/1985 - 2/10/2026
244,742.11%
Suncor Energy (SU)
2/10/1985 - 2/10/2026
221,236.03%
Danaher (DHR)
2/10/1985 - 2/10/2026
217,430.12%
HF Sinclair (DINO)
2/10/1985 - 2/10/2026
210,008.3%
Home Depot (HD)
2/10/1985 - 2/10/2026
195,184.47%
Cisco Systems (CSCO)
2/10/1985 - 2/10/2026
181,828.72%
Adobe Systems (ADBE)
2/10/1985 - 2/10/2026
173,889.57%
Amazon (AMZN)
2/10/1985 - 2/10/2026
171,122.31%
Applied Materials (AMAT)
2/10/1985 - 2/10/2026
166,770.27%
Progressive (PGR)
2/10/1985 - 2/10/2026
159,844.44%
Williams-Sonoma (WSM)
2/10/1985 - 2/10/2026
143,700.4%
UnitedHealth (UNH)
2/10/1985 - 2/10/2026
131,750.79%
Heico (HEI)
2/10/1985 - 2/10/2026
127,821.46%
Large-cap stocks are treated as having a market cap of $10B+.