best performing mega cap stocks 1997 to 2006

Amazon (AMZN) had the highest return between 1997 and 2006 by a mega-cap US stock, returning 1,518.5%.

ASSETYEARS% RETURN
Amazon (AMZN)
1997-2006
1,518.54%
Apple (AAPL)
1997-2006
1,506.31%
NVIDIA (NVDA)
1997-2006
1,310.22%
UnitedHealth (UNH)
1997-2006
859.81%
Royal Bank of Canada (RY)
1997-2006
622.85%
ASML Holding NV ADR (ASML)
1997-2006
497.08%
Morgan Stanley (MS)
1997-2006
476.27%
Lam Research (LRCX)
1997-2006
437.5%
Citigroup (C)
1997-2006
431.62%
Novo Nordisk A-S (NVO)
1997-2006
417.1%
SAP SE ADR (SAP)
1997-2006
406.1%
Amgen (AMGN)
1997-2006
400.21%
Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)
1997-2006
360.42%
Raytheon Technologies (RTX)
1997-2006
341.96%
Costco Wholesale (COST)
1997-2006
330.06%
Wells Fargo (WFC)
1997-2006
318.34%
Applied Materials (AMAT)
1997-2006
317.89%
American Express (AXP)
1997-2006
305.01%
Cisco Systems (CSCO)
1997-2006
286.6%
Home Depot (HD)
1997-2006
284.88%
Texas Instruments (TXN)
1997-2006
273.97%
Oracle (ORCL)
1997-2006
266.19%
Exxon Mobil (XOM)
1997-2006
254.42%
Caterpillar (CAT)
1997-2006
241.08%
Microsoft (MSFT)
1997-2006
232.78%
Mega-cap stocks are treated as having a market cap of $200B+.