best mega cap stocks from 1980 to 2007

McDonald’s (MCD) had the highest return between 1980 and 2007 by a mega-cap US stock, returning 208,859.1%.

ASSETYEARS% RETURN
McDonald’s (MCD)
1980-2007
208,859.06%
Home Depot (HD)
1980-2007
102,110.78%
Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A)
1980-2007
48,727.59%
Microsoft (MSFT)
1980-2007
42,900.84%
UnitedHealth (UNH)
1980-2007
42,318.45%
Cisco Systems (CSCO)
1980-2007
36,622.64%
Oracle (ORCL)
1980-2007
35,568.38%
Applied Materials (AMAT)
1980-2007
10,165.76%
Coca-Cola (KO)
1980-2007
8,929.93%
Wells Fargo (WFC)
1980-2007
8,300.09%
GE Aerospace (GE)
1980-2007
7,824.11%
Procter & Gamble (PG)
1980-2007
6,810.5%
Merck (MRK)
1980-2007
6,416.08%
Apple (AAPL)
1980-2007
5,937.74%
Johnson & Johnson (JNJ)
1980-2007
5,584.31%
PepsiCo (PEP)
1980-2007
5,559.75%
Bank of America (BAC)
1980-2007
5,443.46%
Novo Nordisk A-S (NVO)
1980-2007
5,164.29%
Intel (INTC)
1980-2007
4,980.37%
Toyota Motor Corporation ADR (TM)
1980-2007
3,922.98%
Amazon (AMZN)
1980-2007
3,699.84%
Chevron (CVX)
1980-2007
3,649.44%
AT&T (T)
1980-2007
3,572.03%
Exxon Mobil (XOM)
1980-2007
3,397.29%
Eli Lilly and (LLY)
1980-2007
3,116.27%
Mega-cap stocks are treated as having a market cap of $200B+.