best mega stock between 2001 and 2024

Apple (AAPL) had the highest return between 2001 and 2024 by a mega-cap US stock, returning 111,690.4%.

ASSETYEARS% RETURN
Apple (AAPL)
2001-2024
111,690.36%
NVIDIA (NVDA)
2001-2024
106,371.69%
Netflix (NFLX)
2001-2024
77,003.81%
Tesla (TSLA)
2001-2024
31,781.27%
Intuitive Surgical (ISRG)
2001-2024
28,806.24%
Amazon (AMZN)
2001-2024
27,646.3%
Broadcom (AVGO)
2001-2024
19,392.01%
Mastercard (MA)
2001-2024
14,196.67%
Salesforce (CRM)
2001-2024
8,865.42%
Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)
2001-2024
7,491.43%
UnitedHealth (UNH)
2001-2024
4,038.26%
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM)
2001-2024
4,008.89%
Costco Wholesale (COST)
2001-2024
3,310.77%
ASML Holding NV ADR (ASML)
2001-2024
3,190.31%
Microsoft (MSFT)
2001-2024
3,007.58%
Caterpillar (CAT)
2001-2024
2,477.65%
Visa Inc Class A (V)
2001-2024
2,290.28%
Thermo Fisher Scientific (TMO)
2001-2024
2,049.65%
Royal Bank of Canada (RY)
2001-2024
1,652.04%
Eli Lilly and (LLY)
2001-2024
1,533.15%
McDonald’s (MCD)
2001-2024
1,467.83%
Home Depot (HD)
2001-2024
1,321.67%
Facebook (META)
2001-2024
1,297.73%
JPMorgan Chase (JPM)
2001-2024
983.44%
SAP SE ADR (SAP)
2001-2024
973.71%
Mega-cap stocks are treated as having a market cap of $200B+.