best performing mega stocks from jan 2001 to april 2008

Apple (AAPL) had the highest return between January 1, 2001 and April 30, 2008 by a mega-cap US stock, returning 2,239.5%.

ASSETDATE% RETURN
Apple (AAPL)
1/1/2001 - 4/30/2008
2,239.46%
Intuitive Surgical (ISRG)
1/1/2001 - 4/30/2008
1,679.92%
Mastercard (MA)
1/1/2001 - 4/30/2008
594.96%
Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)
1/1/2001 - 4/30/2008
474.21%
Amazon (AMZN)
1/1/2001 - 4/30/2008
397.22%
LIN TV (LIN)
1/1/2001 - 4/30/2008
367.83%
Salesforce (CRM)
1/1/2001 - 4/30/2008
344.86%
Novo Nordisk A-S (NVO)
1/1/2001 - 4/30/2008
331.29%
Netflix (NFLX)
1/1/2001 - 4/30/2008
295.24%
NVIDIA (NVDA)
1/1/2001 - 4/30/2008
273.81%
Caterpillar (CAT)
1/1/2001 - 4/30/2008
273.52%
Royal Bank of Canada (RY)
1/1/2001 - 4/30/2008
259.83%
Chevron (CVX)
1/1/2001 - 4/30/2008
186.01%
Lam Research (LRCX)
1/1/2001 - 4/30/2008
173.4%
Exxon Mobil (XOM)
1/1/2001 - 4/30/2008
148.92%
Thermo Fisher Scientific (TMO)
1/1/2001 - 4/30/2008
127.26%
Bank of America (BAC)
1/1/2001 - 4/30/2008
124.28%
UnitedHealth (UNH)
1/1/2001 - 4/30/2008
113.08%
Raytheon Technologies (RTX)
1/1/2001 - 4/30/2008
110.23%
McDonald’s (MCD)
1/1/2001 - 4/30/2008
101.36%
Procter & Gamble (PG)
1/1/2001 - 4/30/2008
101.11%
Goldman Sachs (GS)
1/1/2001 - 4/30/2008
94.78%
Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B)
1/1/2001 - 4/30/2008
87.82%
Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A)
1/1/2001 - 4/30/2008
87.2%
Costco Wholesale (COST)
1/1/2001 - 4/30/2008
85.11%
Mega-cap stocks are treated as having a market cap of $200B+.