best performing large stocks by decade 1970s

Boeing (BA) had the best decade in the 1970s by a large-cap US stock in the 1970s, returning 601.2%.

ASSETDECADE% RETURN
Boeing (BA)
1970s
601.21%
General Dynamics (GD)
1970s
457.75%
BP PLC ADR (BP)
1970s
442.36%
Revvity (RVTY)
1970s
231.37%
Deere (DE)
1970s
230.78%
Chevron (CVX)
1970s
228.3%
McDonald’s (MCD)
1970s
212.73%
Halliburton (HAL)
1970s
191.41%
Carpenter Technology (CRS)
1970s
172.7%
HP (HPQ)
1970s
167.42%
Agnico Eagle Mines (AEM)
1970s
145.16%
Kroger (KR)
1970s
134.77%
S&P Global (SPGI)
1970s
120.39%
Walmart Inc Common Stock (WMT)
1970s
114.04%
Carlisle Companies (CSL)
1970s
112.05%
Consolidated Edison (ED)
1970s
109.18%
Marsh & McLennan Companies (MMC)
1970s
99.65%
Lockheed Martin (LMT)
1970s
95.77%
GE Aerospace (GE)
1970s
86.54%
Teradyne (TER)
1970s
83.24%
Edison International (EIX)
1970s
81.12%
Exxon Mobil (XOM)
1970s
81.12%
Pentair (PNR)
1970s
81.07%
Dupont De Nemours (DD)
1970s
75.6%
Motorola Solutions (MSI)
1970s
75.51%
Large-cap stocks are treated as having a market cap of $10B+.