best performing mega stocks between september 2002 and december 2007

Apple (AAPL) had the highest return between September 1, 2002 and December 31, 2007 by a mega-cap US stock, returning 2,633.9%.

ASSETDATE% RETURN
Apple (AAPL)
9/1/2002 - 12/31/2007
2,633.87%
Intuitive Surgical (ISRG)
9/1/2002 - 12/31/2007
2,142.78%
NVIDIA (NVDA)
9/1/2002 - 12/31/2007
960.82%
Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)
9/1/2002 - 12/31/2007
591.38%
Amazon (AMZN)
9/1/2002 - 12/31/2007
529.78%
Mastercard (MA)
9/1/2002 - 12/31/2007
436.9%
Novo Nordisk A-S (NVO)
9/1/2002 - 12/31/2007
363.52%
Salesforce (CRM)
9/1/2002 - 12/31/2007
317.93%
Netflix (NFLX)
9/1/2002 - 12/31/2007
305.87%
Lam Research (LRCX)
9/1/2002 - 12/31/2007
275.92%
Caterpillar (CAT)
9/1/2002 - 12/31/2007
247.56%
Royal Bank of Canada (RY)
9/1/2002 - 12/31/2007
236.69%
Thermo Fisher Scientific (TMO)
9/1/2002 - 12/31/2007
229.04%
Exxon Mobil (XOM)
9/1/2002 - 12/31/2007
206.56%
SAP SE ADR (SAP)
9/1/2002 - 12/31/2007
200.19%
ASML Holding NV ADR (ASML)
9/1/2002 - 12/31/2007
199.49%
Goldman Sachs (GS)
9/1/2002 - 12/31/2007
196.34%
Chevron (CVX)
9/1/2002 - 12/31/2007
195.42%
Raytheon Technologies (RTX)
9/1/2002 - 12/31/2007
184.4%
McDonald’s (MCD)
9/1/2002 - 12/31/2007
181.28%
UnitedHealth (UNH)
9/1/2002 - 12/31/2007
165.22%
Shell PLC ADR (SHEL)
9/1/2002 - 12/31/2007
148.5%
Oracle (ORCL)
9/1/2002 - 12/31/2007
137.44%
Toyota Motor Corporation ADR (TM)
9/1/2002 - 12/31/2007
136.89%
Walt Disney (DIS)
9/1/2002 - 12/31/2007
123.26%
Mega-cap stocks are treated as having a market cap of $200B+.