best performing stocks in the large cap from 1997 to 2000

AngloGold Ashanti (AU) had the highest return between 1997 and 2000 by a large-cap US stock, returning 26,807.9%.

ASSETYEARS% RETURN
AngloGold Ashanti (AU)
1997-2000
26,807.95%
Check Point Software Technologies (CHKP)
1997-2000
2,370.5%
NetApp (NTAP)
1997-2000
1,894.16%
Qualcomm (QCOM)
1997-2000
1,570.18%
Biogen (BIIB)
1997-2000
1,496.33%
VeriSign (VRSN)
1997-2000
1,347.59%
Nokia (NOK)
1997-2000
1,150.07%
Best Buy (BBY)
1997-2000
1,012.98%
Waters (WAT)
1997-2000
999.58%
Semtech (SMTC)
1997-2000
930.67%
NVR (NVR)
1997-2000
850.77%
Quest Diagnostics (DGX)
1997-2000
846.67%
Johnson Controls International (JCI)
1997-2000
814.06%
Dycom Industries (DY)
1997-2000
774.16%
Flex (FLEX)
1997-2000
717.92%
Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp Class A (CTSH)
1997-2000
626.12%
ResMed (RMD)
1997-2000
625.01%
Copart (CPRT)
1997-2000
542.86%
Amazon (AMZN)
1997-2000
538.31%
Adobe Systems (ADBE)
1997-2000
534.87%
Oracle (ORCL)
1997-2000
520.93%
Charles Schwab (SCHW)
1997-2000
515.15%
Laboratory Corporation of America (LH)
1997-2000
512.13%
Texas Instruments (TXN)
1997-2000
501.66%
Celestica (CLS)
1997-2000
484.51%
Large-cap stocks are treated as having a market cap of $10B+.