best performance mega stock between may 2021 and september 2025

NVIDIA (NVDA) had the highest return between May 1, 2021 and September 30, 2025 by a mega-cap US stock, returning 1,136.5%.

ASSETDATE% RETURN
NVIDIA (NVDA)
5/1/2021 - 9/30/2025
1,136.46%
Applovin (APP)
5/1/2021 - 9/30/2025
1,127.64%
Palantir Technologies Inc Class A Common Stock (PLTR)
5/1/2021 - 9/30/2025
692.79%
Broadcom (AVGO)
5/1/2021 - 9/30/2025
689.91%
GE Aerospace (GE)
5/1/2021 - 9/30/2025
365.46%
Eli Lilly and (LLY)
5/1/2021 - 9/30/2025
336.85%
Oracle (ORCL)
5/1/2021 - 9/30/2025
291.46%
HSBC Holdings PLC ADR (HSBC)
5/1/2021 - 9/30/2025
196.09%
Costco Wholesale (COST)
5/1/2021 - 9/30/2025
160.24%
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM)
5/1/2021 - 9/30/2025
156.86%
Goldman Sachs (GS)
5/1/2021 - 9/30/2025
153.73%
International Business Machines (IBM)
5/1/2021 - 9/30/2025
147.73%
AbbVie (ABBV)
5/1/2021 - 9/30/2025
142.73%
Walmart (WMT)
5/1/2021 - 9/30/2025
135.45%
Netflix (NFLX)
5/1/2021 - 9/30/2025
133.87%
Exxon Mobil (XOM)
5/1/2021 - 9/30/2025
131.99%
JPMorgan Chase (JPM)
5/1/2021 - 9/30/2025
127.82%
Facebook (META)
5/1/2021 - 9/30/2025
126.54%
American Express (AXP)
5/1/2021 - 9/30/2025
126.5%
Caterpillar (CAT)
5/1/2021 - 9/30/2025
125.31%
Shell PLC ADR (SHEL)
5/1/2021 - 9/30/2025
124.62%
Lam Research (LRCX)
5/1/2021 - 9/30/2025
123.81%
Raytheon Technologies (RTX)
5/1/2021 - 9/30/2025
121.7%
Morgan Stanley (MS)
5/1/2021 - 9/30/2025
120.92%
Microsoft (MSFT)
5/1/2021 - 9/30/2025
112.13%
Mega-cap stocks are treated as having a market cap of $200B+.