best performance mega stock between january 2008 and december 2012

Netflix (NFLX) had the highest return between January 1, 2008 and December 31, 2012 by a mega-cap US stock, returning 248.6%.

ASSET DATE % RETURN
Netflix (NFLX)
1/1/2008 - 12/31/2012
248.6%
Novo Nordisk A-S (NVO)
1/1/2008 - 12/31/2012
173.87%
Apple (AAPL)
1/1/2008 - 12/31/2012
169.43%
Salesforce (CRM)
1/1/2008 - 12/31/2012
166.61%
Home Depot (HD)
1/1/2008 - 12/31/2012
166.47%
Visa Inc Class A (V)
1/1/2008 - 12/31/2012
163.17%
Amazon (AMZN)
1/1/2008 - 12/31/2012
163.1%
Mastercard (MA)
1/1/2008 - 12/31/2012
128.56%
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM)
1/1/2008 - 12/31/2012
109.49%
Philip Morris International (PM)
1/1/2008 - 12/31/2012
103.99%
ASML Holding NV ADR (ASML)
1/1/2008 - 12/31/2012
98.72%
Broadcom (AVGO)
1/1/2008 - 12/31/2012
98.17%
International Business Machines (IBM)
1/1/2008 - 12/31/2012
92.21%
Intuit (INTU)
1/1/2008 - 12/31/2012
91.4%
Tesla (TSLA)
1/1/2008 - 12/31/2012
78.26%
McDonald’s (MCD)
1/1/2008 - 12/31/2012
73.42%
SAP SE ADR (SAP)
1/1/2008 - 12/31/2012
69.04%
Walt Disney (DIS)
1/1/2008 - 12/31/2012
65.08%
Costco Wholesale (COST)
1/1/2008 - 12/31/2012
61.39%
Walmart (WMT)
1/1/2008 - 12/31/2012
61.12%
Oracle (ORCL)
1/1/2008 - 12/31/2012
53.25%
AstraZeneca PLC ADR (AZN)
1/1/2008 - 12/31/2012
43.43%
Novartis AG ADR (NVS)
1/1/2008 - 12/31/2012
42.45%
LIN TV (LIN)
1/1/2008 - 12/31/2012
37.37%
Coca-Cola (KO)
1/1/2008 - 12/31/2012
37.07%
Mega-cap stocks are treated as having a market cap of $200B+.