best performance mega stock between january 2008 and december 2011

Netflix (NFLX) had the highest return between January 1, 2008 and December 31, 2011 by a mega-cap US stock, returning 160.9%.

ASSET DATE % RETURN
Netflix (NFLX)
1/1/2008 - 12/31/2011
160.88%
Apple (AAPL)
1/1/2008 - 12/31/2011
103.24%
McDonald’s (MCD)
1/1/2008 - 12/31/2011
91.12%
Novo Nordisk A-S (NVO)
1/1/2008 - 12/31/2011
90.06%
Philip Morris International (PM)
1/1/2008 - 12/31/2011
86.03%
Amazon (AMZN)
1/1/2008 - 12/31/2011
81.54%
International Business Machines (IBM)
1/1/2008 - 12/31/2011
81.46%
Broadcom (AVGO)
1/1/2008 - 12/31/2011
77.57%
Home Depot (HD)
1/1/2008 - 12/31/2011
77.25%
Visa Inc Class A (V)
1/1/2008 - 12/31/2011
74.9%
Mastercard (MA)
1/1/2008 - 12/31/2011
73.03%
Intuit (INTU)
1/1/2008 - 12/31/2011
67.43%
Salesforce (CRM)
1/1/2008 - 12/31/2011
60.92%
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM)
1/1/2008 - 12/31/2011
53.22%
Tesla (TSLA)
1/1/2008 - 12/31/2011
50.31%
ASML Holding NV ADR (ASML)
1/1/2008 - 12/31/2011
39.98%
Walmart (WMT)
1/1/2008 - 12/31/2011
37.72%
AstraZeneca PLC ADR (AZN)
1/1/2008 - 12/31/2011
32.18%
LIN TV (LIN)
1/1/2008 - 12/31/2011
31.41%
Chevron (CVX)
1/1/2008 - 12/31/2011
29.64%
Coca-Cola (KO)
1/1/2008 - 12/31/2011
28.67%
Costco Wholesale (COST)
1/1/2008 - 12/31/2011
25.69%
Novartis AG ADR (NVS)
1/1/2008 - 12/31/2011
22.77%
Walt Disney (DIS)
1/1/2008 - 12/31/2011
22.45%
Oracle (ORCL)
1/1/2008 - 12/31/2011
16.34%
Mega-cap stocks are treated as having a market cap of $200B+.