best performing large cap stocks 1978

Boeing (BA) had the highest return in 1978 by a large-cap US stock, returning 156.5%.

ASSETYEAR% RETURN
Boeing (BA)
1978
156.48%
W R Berkley (WRB)
1978
109.16%
General Dynamics (GD)
1978
73.74%
FedEx (FDX)
1978
72.83%
Skyworks Solutions (SWKS)
1978
68.77%
Medtronic (MDT)
1978
67.59%
Revvity (RVTY)
1978
63.37%
Brown-Forman (BF.A)
1978
62.96%
New York Times (NYT)
1978
49.66%
Deere (DE)
1978
46.72%
3M (MMM)
1978
36%
Sysco (SYY)
1978
35.46%
Kroger (KR)
1978
34.53%
Snap-On (SNA)
1978
33.94%
Eli Lilly and (LLY)
1978
30.78%
Lockheed Martin (LMT)
1978
30%
CNA Financial (CNA)
1978
26.98%
American International (AIG)
1978
26.87%
S&P Global (SPGI)
1978
26.62%
Merck (MRK)
1978
26.46%
Pfizer (PFE)
1978
25.57%
Coca-Cola (KO)
1978
24.11%
HP (HPQ)
1978
24.11%
BP PLC ADR (BP)
1978
23.02%
Chevron (CVX)
1978
20.58%
Large-cap stocks are treated as having a market cap of $10B+.