most performing mega stocks 1988 to 2025

NVIDIA (NVDA) had the highest return between 1988 and 2025 by a mega-cap US stock, returning 464,962.1%.

ASSETYEARS% RETURN
NVIDIA (NVDA)
1988-2025
464,962.09%
UnitedHealth (UNH)
1988-2025
391,722.25%
Microsoft (MSFT)
1988-2025
208,060.74%
Amazon (AMZN)
1988-2025
189,251.93%
Cisco Systems (CSCO)
1988-2025
160,336%
Oracle (ORCL)
1988-2025
135,748.18%
Lam Research (LRCX)
1988-2025
127,113.69%
Applied Materials (AMAT)
1988-2025
114,855.7%
Home Depot (HD)
1988-2025
99,554.46%
Costco Wholesale (COST)
1988-2025
97,142.54%
Apple (AAPL)
1988-2025
92,355.13%
Netflix (NFLX)
1988-2025
81,007.27%
ASML Holding NV ADR (ASML)
1988-2025
60,406.36%
Qualcomm (QCOM)
1988-2025
53,061.96%
KLA (KLAC)
1988-2025
36,840.99%
Tesla (TSLA)
1988-2025
35,403.28%
Eli Lilly and (LLY)
1988-2025
30,330.89%
Broadcom (AVGO)
1988-2025
29,261.17%
Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A)
1988-2025
23,861.9%
Micron Technology (MU)
1988-2025
20,126.18%
RTX (RTX)
1988-2025
17,873.4%
JPMorgan Chase (JPM)
1988-2025
17,648.99%
Wells Fargo (WFC)
1988-2025
17,375.27%
Walmart (WMT)
1988-2025
17,070.06%
Mastercard (MA)
1988-2025
15,489.02%
Mega-cap stocks are treated as having a market cap of $200B+.