best performing mega cap stocks 2004 to 2023

Apple (AAPL) had the highest return between 2004 and 2023 by a mega-cap US stock, returning 58,930.5%.

ASSETYEARS% RETURN
Apple (AAPL)
2004-2023
58,930.51%
NVIDIA (NVDA)
2004-2023
27,396.89%
Tesla (TSLA)
2004-2023
19,516.33%
Netflix (NFLX)
2004-2023
11,757.77%
Mastercard (MA)
2004-2023
11,413.41%
Broadcom (AVGO)
2004-2023
9,159.74%
Novo Nordisk A-S (NVO)
2004-2023
7,234.5%
Amazon (AMZN)
2004-2023
5,659.67%
Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)
2004-2023
5,481.42%
ASML Holding NV ADR (ASML)
2004-2023
3,756.77%
Lam Research (LRCX)
2004-2023
2,669.28%
Costco Wholesale (COST)
2004-2023
2,527.42%
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM)
2004-2023
2,118.63%
Thermo Fisher Scientific (TMO)
2004-2023
2,110.29%
UnitedHealth (UNH)
2004-2023
2,105.39%
Microsoft (MSFT)
2004-2023
2,082.03%
McDonald’s (MCD)
2004-2023
1,942.89%
Visa Inc Class A (V)
2004-2023
1,854.11%
LIN TV (LIN)
2004-2023
1,481.5%
Home Depot (HD)
2004-2023
1,451.03%
Eli Lilly and (LLY)
2004-2023
1,422.79%
Caterpillar (CAT)
2004-2023
1,049.85%
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
2004-2023
876.23%
Applied Materials (AMAT)
2004-2023
872.07%
Oracle (ORCL)
2004-2023
871.08%
Mega-cap stocks are treated as having a market cap of $200B+.