best performing mega cap between january 15 2009 and october 1 2012

Apple (AAPL) had the highest return between January 15, 2009 and October 1, 2012 by a mega-cap US stock, returning 721.9%.

ASSET DATE % RETURN
Apple (AAPL)
1/15/2009 - 10/1/2012
721.93%
Salesforce (CRM)
1/15/2009 - 10/1/2012
437.1%
Amazon (AMZN)
1/15/2009 - 10/1/2012
418.97%
ASML Holding NV ADR (ASML)
1/15/2009 - 10/1/2012
246.7%
Novo Nordisk A-S (NVO)
1/15/2009 - 10/1/2012
230.22%
Mastercard (MA)
1/15/2009 - 10/1/2012
220.16%
Home Depot (HD)
1/15/2009 - 10/1/2012
210.14%
Visa Inc Class A (V)
1/15/2009 - 10/1/2012
178.75%
International Business Machines (IBM)
1/15/2009 - 10/1/2012
169.39%
Philip Morris International (PM)
1/15/2009 - 10/1/2012
158.9%
Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)
1/15/2009 - 10/1/2012
156%
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM)
1/15/2009 - 10/1/2012
150.13%
UnitedHealth (UNH)
1/15/2009 - 10/1/2012
143.55%
SAP SE ADR (SAP)
1/15/2009 - 10/1/2012
122.5%
Costco Wholesale (COST)
1/15/2009 - 10/1/2012
121.98%
Broadcom (AVGO)
1/15/2009 - 10/1/2012
116.11%
Coca-Cola (KO)
1/15/2009 - 10/1/2012
102.21%
Oracle (ORCL)
1/15/2009 - 10/1/2012
99.62%
Merck (MRK)
1/15/2009 - 10/1/2012
93.29%
Chevron (CVX)
1/15/2009 - 10/1/2012
91.53%
Netflix (NFLX)
1/15/2009 - 10/1/2012
91.43%
LIN TV (LIN)
1/15/2009 - 10/1/2012
87.43%
GE Aerospace (GE)
1/15/2009 - 10/1/2012
86.22%
McDonald’s (MCD)
1/15/2009 - 10/1/2012
81.21%
NVIDIA (NVDA)
1/15/2009 - 10/1/2012
78.46%
Mega-cap stocks are treated as having a market cap of $200B+.