best return mega cap 1 year

Amazon (AMZN) had the best year by a mega-cap US stock in 1998, returning 970.8%.

ASSET YEAR % RETURN
Amazon (AMZN)
1998
970.84%
Tesla (TSLA)
2020
731.18%
Home Depot (HD)
1982
439.01%
Netflix (NFLX)
2003
361.48%
Palantir Technologies Inc Class A Common Stock (PLTR)
2024
346.19%
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
2009
342.01%
Tesla (TSLA)
2013
329.8%
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
2016
309.39%
NVIDIA (NVDA)
2001
305.39%
Netflix (NFLX)
2013
286.69%
Oracle (ORCL)
1999
285.32%
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM)
1999
281.72%
ASML Holding NV ADR (ASML)
1999
251.35%
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
1991
250%
NVIDIA (NVDA)
2016
233.78%
NVIDIA (NVDA)
2023
233.61%
UnitedHealth (UNH)
1991
220.6%
Netflix (NFLX)
2010
216.46%
Cisco Systems (CSCO)
1991
202.92%
Apple (AAPL)
1998
200.29%
Apple (AAPL)
2004
198.89%
McDonald’s (MCD)
1967
194.74%
Facebook (META)
2023
188.19%
Walmart (WMT)
1975
181.82%
Shell PLC ADR (SHEL)
1989
180.56%
Mega-cap stocks are treated as having a market cap of $200B+.