best performing large cap stocks from january 1976 to january 1979

Skyworks Solutions (SWKS) had the highest return between January 1, 1976 and January 31, 1979 by a large-cap US stock, returning 624.8%.

ASSETDATE% RETURN
Skyworks Solutions (SWKS)
1/1/1976 - 1/31/1979
624.83%
W R Berkley (WRB)
1/1/1976 - 1/31/1979
598.51%
Boeing (BA)
1/1/1976 - 1/31/1979
569.04%
Southwest Airlines (LUV)
1/1/1976 - 1/31/1979
255.55%
Brown-Forman (BF.A)
1/1/1976 - 1/31/1979
202.88%
Lockheed Martin (LMT)
1/1/1976 - 1/31/1979
180.71%
Carlisle Companies (CSL)
1/1/1976 - 1/31/1979
163.53%
Carpenter Technology (CRS)
1/1/1976 - 1/31/1979
162.79%
Kroger (KR)
1/1/1976 - 1/31/1979
152.73%
New York Times (NYT)
1/1/1976 - 1/31/1979
128.42%
General Dynamics (GD)
1/1/1976 - 1/31/1979
123.22%
S&P Global (SPGI)
1/1/1976 - 1/31/1979
114.46%
Consolidated Edison (ED)
1/1/1976 - 1/31/1979
114.17%
Revvity (RVTY)
1/1/1976 - 1/31/1979
103.51%
CNA Financial (CNA)
1/1/1976 - 1/31/1979
97.92%
Cummins (CMI)
1/1/1976 - 1/31/1979
85.35%
Walmart (WMT)
1/1/1976 - 1/31/1979
77.42%
Edison International (EIX)
1/1/1976 - 1/31/1979
74.75%
Sysco (SYY)
1/1/1976 - 1/31/1979
74.5%
Chevron (CVX)
1/1/1976 - 1/31/1979
70.79%
FedEx (FDX)
1/1/1976 - 1/31/1979
65.43%
Deere (DE)
1/1/1976 - 1/31/1979
58.2%
Teradyne (TER)
1/1/1976 - 1/31/1979
57.14%
CVS Health (CVS)
1/1/1976 - 1/31/1979
55.59%
PG&E (PCG)
1/1/1976 - 1/31/1979
54.06%
Large-cap stocks are treated as having a market cap of $10B+.