best mega cap stocks last 25 years list 100

NVIDIA (NVDA) has had the highest return between March 11, 2001 and March 11, 2026 by a mega-cap US stock, returning 99,883.8%.

ASSETDATE% RETURN
NVIDIA (NVDA)
3/11/2001 - 3/11/2026
99,883.77%
Apple (AAPL)
3/11/2001 - 3/11/2026
88,346.93%
Netflix (NFLX)
3/11/2001 - 3/11/2026
83,758.13%
Amazon (AMZN)
3/11/2001 - 3/11/2026
37,581.08%
Tesla (TSLA)
3/11/2001 - 3/11/2026
31,417.72%
Broadcom (AVGO)
3/11/2001 - 3/11/2026
28,961.76%
Mastercard (MA)
3/11/2001 - 3/11/2026
13,976.85%
Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)
3/11/2001 - 3/11/2026
12,270.67%
Lam Research (LRCX)
3/11/2001 - 3/11/2026
10,573.97%
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM)
3/11/2001 - 3/11/2026
7,041.33%
ASML Holding NV ADR (ASML)
3/11/2001 - 3/11/2026
6,410.3%
Caterpillar (CAT)
3/11/2001 - 3/11/2026
5,167.69%
Costco Wholesale (COST)
3/11/2001 - 3/11/2026
3,720.67%
LIN TV (LIN)
3/11/2001 - 3/11/2026
2,986.17%
Royal Bank of Canada (RY)
3/11/2001 - 3/11/2026
2,661.21%
Eli Lilly and (LLY)
3/11/2001 - 3/11/2026
2,439.91%
Microsoft (MSFT)
3/11/2001 - 3/11/2026
2,337.11%
UnitedHealth (UNH)
3/11/2001 - 3/11/2026
2,336.51%
Visa Inc Class A (V)
3/11/2001 - 3/11/2026
2,299.99%
McDonald’s (MCD)
3/11/2001 - 3/11/2026
2,053.91%
Applied Materials (AMAT)
3/11/2001 - 3/11/2026
2,024.62%
Facebook (META)
3/11/2001 - 3/11/2026
1,466.32%
Raytheon Technologies (RTX)
3/11/2001 - 3/11/2026
1,415.35%
Palantir Technologies (PLTR)
3/11/2001 - 3/11/2026
1,411.4%
Home Depot (HD)
3/11/2001 - 3/11/2026
1,302.15%
Mega-cap stocks are treated as having a market cap of $200B+.