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 23,121.8%.

ASSET YEARS % RETURN
Apple (AAPL)
1998-2015
23,121.8%
Amazon (AMZN)
1998-2015
13,417.8%
Netflix (NFLX)
1998-2015
9,791.04%
Novo Nordisk A-S (NVO)
1998-2015
2,545.55%
Mastercard (MA)
1998-2015
2,403.42%
Salesforce (CRM)
1998-2015
1,990.68%
UnitedHealth (UNH)
1998-2015
1,980.34%
NVIDIA (NVDA)
1998-2015
1,905.24%
Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)
1998-2015
1,454.39%
Tesla (TSLA)
1998-2015
1,163.18%
Oracle (ORCL)
1998-2015
950.6%
Broadcom (AVGO)
1998-2015
854.68%
Home Depot (HD)
1998-2015
814.97%
Costco Wholesale (COST)
1998-2015
811.59%
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM)
1998-2015
755.54%
ASML Holding NV ADR (ASML)
1998-2015
651.14%
McDonald’s (MCD)
1998-2015
636.37%
Raytheon Technologies (RTX)
1998-2015
634.58%
LIN TV (LIN)
1998-2015
526.99%
Visa Inc Class A (V)
1998-2015
450.71%
Abbott Laboratories (ABT)
1998-2015
402.44%
Microsoft (MSFT)
1998-2015
390.7%
Johnson & Johnson (JNJ)
1998-2015
383.13%
Wells Fargo (WFC)
1998-2015
351.54%
Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A)
1998-2015
330%
Mega-cap stocks are treated as having a market cap of $200B+.