best performing mega stocks from jan 2002 to april 2024

Apple (AAPL) had the highest return between January 1, 2002 and April 30, 2024 by a mega-cap US stock, returning 50,989.1%.

ASSETDATE% RETURN
Apple (AAPL)
1/1/2002 - 4/30/2024
50,989.14%
Netflix (NFLX)
1/1/2002 - 4/30/2024
47,533.22%
Amazon (AMZN)
1/1/2002 - 4/30/2024
31,904.39%
Intuitive Surgical (ISRG)
1/1/2002 - 4/30/2024
16,917.31%
NVIDIA (NVDA)
1/1/2002 - 4/30/2024
16,724.06%
Tesla (TSLA)
1/1/2002 - 4/30/2024
14,369.09%
Mastercard (MA)
1/1/2002 - 4/30/2024
12,115.97%
Broadcom (AVGO)
1/1/2002 - 4/30/2024
10,732.7%
Novo Nordisk A-S (NVO)
1/1/2002 - 4/30/2024
9,414.47%
Salesforce (CRM)
1/1/2002 - 4/30/2024
7,081.07%
Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)
1/1/2002 - 4/30/2024
6,404%
ASML Holding NV ADR (ASML)
1/1/2002 - 4/30/2024
5,099.97%
UnitedHealth (UNH)
1/1/2002 - 4/30/2024
3,334.53%
Thermo Fisher Scientific (TMO)
1/1/2002 - 4/30/2024
2,403.94%
Costco Wholesale (COST)
1/1/2002 - 4/30/2024
2,328.56%
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM)
1/1/2002 - 4/30/2024
1,992.9%
Caterpillar (CAT)
1/1/2002 - 4/30/2024
1,984.3%
Visa Inc Class A (V)
1/1/2002 - 4/30/2024
1,919.87%
Eli Lilly and (LLY)
1/1/2002 - 4/30/2024
1,821.33%
Microsoft (MSFT)
1/1/2002 - 4/30/2024
1,789.71%
McDonald’s (MCD)
1/1/2002 - 4/30/2024
1,736.36%
Royal Bank of Canada (RY)
1/1/2002 - 4/30/2024
1,298.14%
Applied Materials (AMAT)
1/1/2002 - 4/30/2024
1,221.17%
Home Depot (HD)
1/1/2002 - 4/30/2024
970.34%
American Express (AXP)
1/1/2002 - 4/30/2024
929.98%
Mega-cap stocks are treated as having a market cap of $200B+.