best performing mega cap stocks from september 2002 to may 2008

Apple (AAPL) had the highest return between September 1, 2002 and May 31, 2008 by a mega-cap US stock, returning 2,506.4%.

ASSETDATE% RETURN
Apple (AAPL)
9/1/2002 - 5/31/2008
2,506.42%
BHP (BHP)
9/1/2002 - 5/31/2008
836.9%
Mastercard (MA)
9/1/2002 - 5/31/2008
671.12%
NVIDIA (NVDA)
9/1/2002 - 5/31/2008
669.35%
Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)
9/1/2002 - 5/31/2008
485.74%
Amazon (AMZN)
9/1/2002 - 5/31/2008
454.86%
Toronto Dominion Bank (TD)
9/1/2002 - 5/31/2008
370.55%
Netflix (NFLX)
9/1/2002 - 5/31/2008
362.86%
Caterpillar (CAT)
9/1/2002 - 5/31/2008
325.56%
Banco Santander SA ADR (SAN)
9/1/2002 - 5/31/2008
312.25%
LIN TV (LIN)
9/1/2002 - 5/31/2008
282.86%
Marvell Technology (MRVL)
9/1/2002 - 5/31/2008
274.34%
Lam Research (LRCX)
9/1/2002 - 5/31/2008
253.94%
TotalEnergies SE ADR (TTE)
9/1/2002 - 5/31/2008
252.94%
Royal Bank of Canada (RY)
9/1/2002 - 5/31/2008
245.05%
Thermo Fisher Scientific (TMO)
9/1/2002 - 5/31/2008
236.68%
SAP SE ADR (SAP)
9/1/2002 - 5/31/2008
225.65%
Chevron (CVX)
9/1/2002 - 5/31/2008
218.22%
Exxon Mobil (XOM)
9/1/2002 - 5/31/2008
192.99%
ASML Holding NV ADR (ASML)
9/1/2002 - 5/31/2008
190.87%
RTX (RTX)
9/1/2002 - 5/31/2008
166.43%
Shell PLC ADR (SHEL)
9/1/2002 - 5/31/2008
157.55%
Goldman Sachs (GS)
9/1/2002 - 5/31/2008
143.97%
Oracle (ORCL)
9/1/2002 - 5/31/2008
140.17%
Toyota Motor Corporation ADR (TM)
9/1/2002 - 5/31/2008
130.76%
Mega-cap stocks are treated as having a market cap of $200B+.