best performing mega cap stocks in last 30 years

NVIDIA (NVDA) has had the highest return between May 13, 1996 and May 13, 2026 by a mega-cap US stock, returning 550,473.6%.

ASSETDATE% RETURN
NVIDIA (NVDA)
5/13/1996 - 5/13/2026
550,473.57%
Amazon (AMZN)
5/13/1996 - 5/13/2026
217,963.99%
Apple (AAPL)
5/13/1996 - 5/13/2026
145,121.67%
Netflix (NFLX)
5/13/1996 - 5/13/2026
75,730.45%
ASML Holding NV ADR (ASML)
5/13/1996 - 5/13/2026
43,299.63%
Broadcom (AVGO)
5/13/1996 - 5/13/2026
35,545.67%
Tesla (TSLA)
5/13/1996 - 5/13/2026
34,118.84%
Lam Research (LRCX)
5/13/1996 - 5/13/2026
24,092.04%
KLA (KLAC)
5/13/1996 - 5/13/2026
22,700.34%
Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)
5/13/1996 - 5/13/2026
15,506.37%
Costco Wholesale (COST)
5/13/1996 - 5/13/2026
15,334.62%
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM)
5/13/1996 - 5/13/2026
13,843.56%
Mastercard (MA)
5/13/1996 - 5/13/2026
13,592.3%
Qualcomm (QCOM)
5/13/1996 - 5/13/2026
12,790.59%
Applied Materials (AMAT)
5/13/1996 - 5/13/2026
12,364.59%
Novo Nordisk A-S (NVO)
5/13/1996 - 5/13/2026
11,982.26%
Caterpillar (CAT)
5/13/1996 - 5/13/2026
9,491.68%
Microsoft (MSFT)
5/13/1996 - 5/13/2026
9,217.48%
Royal Bank of Canada (RY)
5/13/1996 - 5/13/2026
8,755.42%
UnitedHealth (UNH)
5/13/1996 - 5/13/2026
7,579.3%
Texas Instruments (TXN)
5/13/1996 - 5/13/2026
7,446.02%
Eli Lilly and (LLY)
5/13/1996 - 5/13/2026
7,405.72%
Analog Devices (ADI)
5/13/1996 - 5/13/2026
6,531.74%
Oracle (ORCL)
5/13/1996 - 5/13/2026
6,108.83%
Walmart (WMT)
5/13/1996 - 5/13/2026
5,174.77%
Mega-cap stocks are treated as having a market cap of $200B+.