best performing mega cap stocks in last 32 years

NVIDIA (NVDA) has had the highest return between May 11, 1994 and May 11, 2026 by a mega-cap US stock, returning 536,558.4%.

ASSETDATE% RETURN
NVIDIA (NVDA)
5/11/1994 - 5/11/2026
536,558.35%
Amazon (AMZN)
5/11/1994 - 5/11/2026
223,591.55%
Apple (AAPL)
5/11/1994 - 5/11/2026
129,002.11%
ASML Holding NV ADR (ASML)
5/11/1994 - 5/11/2026
90,253.01%
Netflix (NFLX)
5/11/1994 - 5/11/2026
75,583.39%
KLA (KLAC)
5/11/1994 - 5/11/2026
38,113.8%
Broadcom (AVGO)
5/11/1994 - 5/11/2026
36,455.3%
Lam Research (LRCX)
5/11/1994 - 5/11/2026
33,965.11%
Tesla (TSLA)
5/11/1994 - 5/11/2026
33,716.22%
Qualcomm (QCOM)
5/11/1994 - 5/11/2026
31,814.06%
Microsoft (MSFT)
5/11/1994 - 5/11/2026
23,109.21%
Applied Materials (AMAT)
5/11/1994 - 5/11/2026
21,784.71%
Costco Wholesale (COST)
5/11/1994 - 5/11/2026
20,606.3%
Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)
5/11/1994 - 5/11/2026
16,048.27%
Oracle (ORCL)
5/11/1994 - 5/11/2026
16,034.21%
Eli Lilly and (LLY)
5/11/1994 - 5/11/2026
15,865.29%
Novo Nordisk A-S (NVO)
5/11/1994 - 5/11/2026
15,458.93%
Analog Devices (ADI)
5/11/1994 - 5/11/2026
14,446.85%
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM)
5/11/1994 - 5/11/2026
14,348.97%
Mastercard (MA)
5/11/1994 - 5/11/2026
13,473.68%
Caterpillar (CAT)
5/11/1994 - 5/11/2026
11,008.15%
Texas Instruments (TXN)
5/11/1994 - 5/11/2026
10,493.35%
Royal Bank of Canada (RY)
5/11/1994 - 5/11/2026
9,340.37%
Cisco Systems (CSCO)
5/11/1994 - 5/11/2026
9,134.08%
LIN TV (LIN)
5/11/1994 - 5/11/2026
8,903.71%
Mega-cap stocks are treated as having a market cap of $200B+.