best sandp stocks past 45 years

Johnson Controls International (JCI) has had the highest return between April 14, 1981 and April 14, 2026 by a US stock in the S&P 500 (GSPC), returning 142,819,900%.

ASSETDATE% RETURN
Johnson Controls International (JCI)
4/14/1981 - 4/14/2026
142,819,900%
Home Depot (HD)
4/14/1981 - 4/14/2026
2,055,080.72%
Nike (NKE)
4/14/1981 - 4/14/2026
1,340,837.5%
Microsoft (MSFT)
4/14/1981 - 4/14/2026
649,173.65%
Amgen (AMGN)
4/14/1981 - 4/14/2026
551,666.56%
McDonald’s (MCD)
4/14/1981 - 4/14/2026
548,566.67%
Hasbro (HAS)
4/14/1981 - 4/14/2026
505,309.84%
NVIDIA (NVDA)
4/14/1981 - 4/14/2026
471,994.76%
Hormel Foods (HRL)
4/14/1981 - 4/14/2026
401,468.63%
Church & Dwight (CHD)
4/14/1981 - 4/14/2026
387,777.55%
Oracle (ORCL)
4/14/1981 - 4/14/2026
308,669.84%
Applied Materials (AMAT)
4/14/1981 - 4/14/2026
307,621.62%
Danaher (DHR)
4/14/1981 - 4/14/2026
299,854.06%
UnitedHealth (UNH)
4/14/1981 - 4/14/2026
295,183.02%
Apple (AAPL)
4/14/1981 - 4/14/2026
271,883.21%
Aflac (AFL)
4/14/1981 - 4/14/2026
242,103.02%
KLA (KLAC)
4/14/1981 - 4/14/2026
241,174.04%
Fastenal (FAST)
4/14/1981 - 4/14/2026
240,952.63%
Walmart Inc Common Stock (WMT)
4/14/1981 - 4/14/2026
227,633.09%
Stryker (SYK)
4/14/1981 - 4/14/2026
216,654.06%
Amazon (AMZN)
4/14/1981 - 4/14/2026
196,692.45%
Progressive (PGR)
4/14/1981 - 4/14/2026
185,546.51%
Franklin Resources (BEN)
4/14/1981 - 4/14/2026
179,410.49%
Cisco Systems (CSCO)
4/14/1981 - 4/14/2026
173,268.42%
Williams-Sonoma (WSM)
4/14/1981 - 4/14/2026
164,738.16%