best performing large cap stocks april 1979

Teradyne (TER) had the highest return in April 1979 by a large-cap US stock, returning 21.4%.

ASSETMONTH% RETURN
Teradyne (TER)
April 1979
21.37%
Sysco (SYY)
April 1979
14.58%
Colgate-Palmolive (CL)
April 1979
11.46%
Motorola Solutions (MSI)
April 1979
11.4%
Snap-On (SNA)
April 1979
10.65%
Revvity (RVTY)
April 1979
10.24%
Agnico Eagle Mines (AEM)
April 1979
9.38%
WW Grainger (GWW)
April 1979
6.66%
Bank of America (BAC)
April 1979
6.26%
McDonald’s (MCD)
April 1979
5.45%
Ford Motor (F)
April 1979
4.3%
Merck (MRK)
April 1979
3.8%
GE Aerospace (GE)
April 1979
3.42%
Chevron (CVX)
April 1979
3.42%
Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY)
April 1979
2.54%
Wells Fargo (WFC)
April 1979
2.46%
S&P Global (SPGI)
April 1979
2.42%
Eli Lilly and (LLY)
April 1979
2.11%
HP (HPQ)
April 1979
1.88%
Pentair (PNR)
April 1979
1.8%
BP PLC ADR (BP)
April 1979
1.76%
Eaton (ETN)
April 1979
1.65%
Becton Dickinson and (BDX)
April 1979
1.5%
Johnson & Johnson (JNJ)
April 1979
1.45%
Emerson Electric (EMR)
April 1979
1.12%
Large-cap stocks are treated as having a market cap of $10B+.