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%
Walmart Inc Common Stock (WMT)
1980-2007
44,496.33%
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
35,592.11%
Applied Materials (AMAT)
1980-2007
10,165.76%
Abbott Laboratories (ABT)
1980-2007
9,963.52%
Coca-Cola (KO)
1980-2007
8,929.93%
Wells Fargo (WFC)
1980-2007
8,299.59%
GE Aerospace (GE)
1980-2007
7,824.11%
Procter & Gamble (PG)
1980-2007
6,810.04%
Merck (MRK)
1980-2007
6,416.08%
Apple (AAPL)
1980-2007
5,937.3%
Johnson & Johnson (JNJ)
1980-2007
5,584.31%
Bank of America (BAC)
1980-2007
5,443.46%
Novo Nordisk A-S (NVO)
1980-2007
5,164.29%
Walt Disney (DIS)
1980-2007
4,363%
Toyota Motor Corporation ADR (TM)
1980-2007
3,922.98%
Amazon (AMZN)
1980-2007
3,699.84%
Chevron (CVX)
1980-2007
3,649.68%
Exxon Mobil (XOM)
1980-2007
3,399.8%
Thermo Fisher Scientific (TMO)
1980-2007
3,158.61%
Mega-cap stocks are treated as having a market cap of $200B+.