best performing mega cap stocks 2005 to 2008

Mastercard (MA) had the highest return between 2005 and 2008 by a mega-cap US stock, returning 257.6%.

ASSETYEARS% RETURN
Mastercard (MA)
2005-2008
257.64%
Apple (AAPL)
2005-2008
163.51%
Netflix (NFLX)
2005-2008
139.48%
McDonald’s (MCD)
2005-2008
117.2%
Novo Nordisk A-S (NVO)
2005-2008
102.19%
Salesforce (CRM)
2005-2008
95.06%
Exxon Mobil (XOM)
2005-2008
68.7%
Chevron (CVX)
2005-2008
59.16%
Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)
2005-2008
55.85%
AstraZeneca PLC ADR (AZN)
2005-2008
28.2%
Oracle (ORCL)
2005-2008
27.74%
Royal Bank of Canada (RY)
2005-2008
27.52%
Abbott Laboratories (ABT)
2005-2008
26.75%
Procter & Gamble (PG)
2005-2008
20.93%
Coca-Cola (KO)
2005-2008
20.34%
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM)
2005-2008
17.14%
PepsiCo (PEP)
2005-2008
13.94%
Amazon (AMZN)
2005-2008
13.83%
Costco Wholesale (COST)
2005-2008
13.15%
Thermo Fisher Scientific (TMO)
2005-2008
13.04%
Merck (MRK)
2005-2008
11.99%
Raytheon Technologies (RTX)
2005-2008
11.98%
Walmart Inc Common Stock (WMT)
2005-2008
11.11%
Shell PLC ADR (SHEL)
2005-2008
11.08%
Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A)
2005-2008
9.89%
Mega-cap stocks are treated as having a market cap of $200B+.