best performing stocks in the sandp december 1981

Church & Dwight (CHD) had the highest return in December 1981 by a US stock in the S&P 500 (GSPC), returning 32.5%.

ASSET MONTH % RETURN
Church & Dwight (CHD)
December 1981
32.53%
Viatris (VTRS)
December 1981
27.35%
Stryker (SYK)
December 1981
25.98%
Lockheed Martin (LMT)
December 1981
19.49%
Apple (AAPL)
December 1981
18.81%
Archer-Daniels-Midland (ADM)
December 1981
12.42%
Dover (DOV)
December 1981
11.86%
Target (TGT)
December 1981
10.09%
Tyler Technologies (TYL)
December 1981
9.94%
Hormel Foods (HRL)
December 1981
9.26%
Snap-On (SNA)
December 1981
9.03%
Danaher (DHR)
December 1981
7.75%
Colgate-Palmolive (CL)
December 1981
7.2%
PulteGroup (PHM)
December 1981
7.04%
Avery Dennison (AVY)
December 1981
6.73%
Omnicom (OMC)
December 1981
5.96%
Texas Instruments (TXN)
December 1981
5.55%
Aon (AON)
December 1981
5.49%
General Dynamics (GD)
December 1981
5.37%
PACCAR (PCAR)
December 1981
5.19%
Cummins (CMI)
December 1981
5.19%
Lowe's Companies (LOW)
December 1981
5.14%
Eli Lilly and (LLY)
December 1981
4.91%
International Business Machines (IBM)
December 1981
4.36%
Emerson Electric (EMR)
December 1981
4.3%