best performance mega stock in 1981

Home Depot (HD) had the highest return in 1981 by a mega-cap US stock, returning 66.9%.

ASSETYEAR% RETURN
Home Depot (HD)
1981
66.87%
Walmart (WMT)
1981
39.82%
PepsiCo (PEP)
1981
39.11%
Toyota Motor Corporation ADR (TM)
1981
36.37%
Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A)
1981
30.23%
JPMorgan Chase (JPM)
1981
27.87%
Procter & Gamble (PG)
1981
23.12%
American Express (AXP)
1981
13.33%
Citigroup (C)
1981
12.7%
Johnson & Johnson (JNJ)
1981
11.8%
Coca-Cola (KO)
1981
10.84%
Bank of America (BAC)
1981
10.19%
Merck (MRK)
1981
3.08%
GE Aerospace (GE)
1981
-1.57%
Caterpillar (CAT)
1981
-4.31%
Eli Lilly and (LLY)
1981
-8.35%
International Business Machines (IBM)
1981
-11.06%
Wells Fargo (WFC)
1981
-11.61%
Chevron (CVX)
1981
-13.71%
Exxon Mobil (XOM)
1981
-22.27%
Texas Instruments (TXN)
1981
-31.96%
Apple (AAPL)
1981
-35.88%
Analog Devices (ADI)
1981
-37.94%
BHP (BHP)
1981
-40.41%
KLA (KLAC)
1981
-42.18%
Mega-cap stocks are treated as having a market cap of $200B+.