best performing mega stocks since 1972

McDonald’s (MCD) has had the highest return since 1972 by a mega-cap US stock, returning 1,933,256.2%.

ASSET% RETURN
McDonald’s (MCD)
1,933,256.16%
Home Depot (HD)
1,885,863.86%
Walmart (WMT)
1,054,900%
Microsoft (MSFT)
777,911.15%
Applied Materials (AMAT)
626,218.84%
NVIDIA (NVDA)
536,882.54%
Oracle (ORCL)
381,011.11%
UnitedHealth (UNH)
366,381.13%
Apple (AAPL)
314,380.65%
Cisco Systems (CSCO)
253,394.74%
Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A)
251,155.52%
Amazon (AMZN)
218,374.16%
KLA (KLAC)
173,719.96%
Lam Research (LRCX)
161,803.5%
BHP (BHP)
122,686.65%
Eli Lilly and (LLY)
119,913.52%
Costco Wholesale (COST)
95,098.59%
ASML Holding NV ADR (ASML)
92,573.1%
Netflix (NFLX)
76,543.6%
Qualcomm (QCOM)
74,394.84%
Wells Fargo (WFC)
55,788.81%
Micron Technology (MU)
55,496.68%
Texas Instruments (TXN)
45,172.33%
Chevron (CVX)
41,451.99%
PepsiCo (PEP)
40,561.63%
Mega-cap stocks are treated as having a market cap of $200B+.