best performing mega cap stock from 1998 to 2015

Apple (AAPL) had the highest return between 1998 and 2015 by a mega-cap US stock, returning 23,123%.

ASSETYEARS% RETURN
Apple (AAPL)
1998-2015
23,123.02%
Amazon (AMZN)
1998-2015
13,417.8%
Netflix (NFLX)
1998-2015
9,794.46%
Novo Nordisk A-S (NVO)
1998-2015
2,533.63%
Mastercard (MA)
1998-2015
2,403.47%
UnitedHealth (UNH)
1998-2015
1,980.39%
NVIDIA (NVDA)
1998-2015
1,904.99%
Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)
1998-2015
1,454.3%
Amgen (AMGN)
1998-2015
1,209.96%
Tesla (TSLA)
1998-2015
1,163.18%
Oracle (ORCL)
1998-2015
950.58%
Broadcom (AVGO)
1998-2015
854.62%
Home Depot (HD)
1998-2015
814.97%
Costco Wholesale (COST)
1998-2015
811.59%
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM)
1998-2015
755.54%
Lam Research (LRCX)
1998-2015
725.11%
Raytheon Technologies (RTX)
1998-2015
651.43%
ASML Holding NV ADR (ASML)
1998-2015
651.15%
Royal Bank of Canada (RY)
1998-2015
648.36%
McDonald’s (MCD)
1998-2015
636.39%
LIN TV (LIN)
1998-2015
526.99%
Visa Inc Class A (V)
1998-2015
450.72%
Microsoft (MSFT)
1998-2015
390.71%
Johnson & Johnson (JNJ)
1998-2015
383.13%
Wells Fargo (WFC)
1998-2015
351.54%
Mega-cap stocks are treated as having a market cap of $200B+.