best performance mega stock between 1982 and 1992

Walmart (WMT) had the highest return between 1982 and 1992 by a mega-cap US stock, returning 4,964.6%.

ASSET YEARS % RETURN
Walmart (WMT)
1982-1992
4,964.61%
Home Depot (HD)
1982-1992
3,806.36%
Microsoft (MSFT)
1982-1992
2,912.5%
UnitedHealth (UNH)
1982-1992
2,469.91%
Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A)
1982-1992
1,998.21%
Coca-Cola (KO)
1982-1992
1,983.18%
Cisco Systems (CSCO)
1982-1992
1,312.57%
Merck (MRK)
1982-1992
1,116.88%
Oracle (ORCL)
1982-1992
973.71%
Wells Fargo (WFC)
1982-1992
854.94%
GE Aerospace (GE)
1982-1992
746.63%
Procter & Gamble (PG)
1982-1992
683.65%
Costco Wholesale (COST)
1982-1992
655.6%
Abbott Laboratories (ABT)
1982-1992
590.06%
McDonald’s (MCD)
1982-1992
555.46%
Eli Lilly and (LLY)
1982-1992
526.25%
Apple (AAPL)
1982-1992
469.74%
Johnson & Johnson (JNJ)
1982-1992
449.65%
Toyota Motor Corporation ADR (TM)
1982-1992
353.17%
Bank of America (BAC)
1982-1992
288.4%
Chevron (CVX)
1982-1992
180.63%
Exxon Mobil (XOM)
1982-1992
177.05%
Novo Nordisk A-S (NVO)
1982-1992
148.11%
JPMorgan Chase (JPM)
1982-1992
119.08%
International Business Machines (IBM)
1982-1992
36.14%
Mega-cap stocks are treated as having a market cap of $200B+.