best performing mega stocks last 24 years

Apple (AAPL) has had the highest return between October 4, 2001 and October 4, 2025 by a mega-cap US stock, returning 111,887.8%.

ASSET DATE % RETURN
Apple (AAPL)
10/4/2001 - 10/4/2025
111,887.85%
Netflix (NFLX)
10/4/2001 - 10/4/2025
99,633.66%
NVIDIA (NVDA)
10/4/2001 - 10/4/2025
81,473.91%
Amazon (AMZN)
10/4/2001 - 10/4/2025
61,821.02%
Tesla (TSLA)
10/4/2001 - 10/4/2025
33,833.05%
Broadcom (AVGO)
10/4/2001 - 10/4/2025
28,551.14%
Mastercard (MA)
10/4/2001 - 10/4/2025
15,729.45%
Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)
10/4/2001 - 10/4/2025
9,771.25%
ASML Holding NV ADR (ASML)
10/4/2001 - 10/4/2025
8,745%
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM)
10/4/2001 - 10/4/2025
8,273.65%
Salesforce (CRM)
10/4/2001 - 10/4/2025
6,377.13%
Novo Nordisk A-S (NVO)
10/4/2001 - 10/4/2025
4,292.31%
Costco Wholesale (COST)
10/4/2001 - 10/4/2025
3,640.18%
Caterpillar (CAT)
10/4/2001 - 10/4/2025
3,387%
LIN TV (LIN)
10/4/2001 - 10/4/2025
3,343.66%
Thermo Fisher Scientific (TMO)
10/4/2001 - 10/4/2025
3,279.19%
Microsoft (MSFT)
10/4/2001 - 10/4/2025
2,873.1%
UnitedHealth (UNH)
10/4/2001 - 10/4/2025
2,635.07%
Visa Inc Class A (V)
10/4/2001 - 10/4/2025
2,559.43%
Oracle (ORCL)
10/4/2001 - 10/4/2025
2,427.83%
Royal Bank of Canada (RY)
10/4/2001 - 10/4/2025
2,209.97%
Eli Lilly and (LLY)
10/4/2001 - 10/4/2025
1,979.69%
McDonald’s (MCD)
10/4/2001 - 10/4/2025
1,835.89%
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
10/4/2001 - 10/4/2025
1,760.68%
JPMorgan Chase (JPM)
10/4/2001 - 10/4/2025
1,649.66%
Mega-cap stocks are treated as having a market cap of $200B+.