best mega cap performing stocks 2001 to 2006

Apple (AAPL) had the highest return between 2001 and 2006 by a mega-cap US stock, returning 1,040.6%.

ASSET YEARS % RETURN
Apple (AAPL)
2001-2006
1,040.57%
Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)
2001-2006
360.44%
NVIDIA (NVDA)
2001-2006
348.45%
UnitedHealth (UNH)
2001-2006
250.38%
Royal Bank of Canada (RY)
2001-2006
239.57%
Netflix (NFLX)
2001-2006
219.47%
Bank of America (BAC)
2001-2006
198.67%
LIN TV (LIN)
2001-2006
197.51%
Caterpillar (CAT)
2001-2006
171.94%
Novo Nordisk A-S (NVO)
2001-2006
155.39%
Amazon (AMZN)
2001-2006
149.53%
Mastercard (MA)
2001-2006
144.71%
Salesforce (CRM)
2001-2006
143%
Toyota Motor Corporation ADR (TM)
2001-2006
128.26%
Chevron (CVX)
2001-2006
111.13%
Goldman Sachs (GS)
2001-2006
100.83%
Exxon Mobil (XOM)
2001-2006
100.76%
Procter & Gamble (PG)
2001-2006
86.78%
Thermo Fisher Scientific (TMO)
2001-2006
77.86%
Raytheon Technologies (RTX)
2001-2006
76.28%
SAP SE ADR (SAP)
2001-2006
70.35%
HSBC Holdings PLC ADR (HSBC)
2001-2006
63.72%
Microsoft (MSFT)
2001-2006
56.73%
Wells Fargo (WFC)
2001-2006
54.93%
Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B)
2001-2006
54.49%
Mega-cap stocks are treated as having a market cap of $200B+.