most performing mega stocks from 2001 to 2026

NVIDIA (NVDA) has had the highest return between 2001 and 2026 by a mega-cap US stock, returning 178,851.5%.

ASSETYEARS% RETURN
NVIDIA (NVDA)
2001-2026
178,851.55%
Apple (AAPL)
2001-2026
137,157.19%
Netflix (NFLX)
2001-2026
67,581.66%
Broadcom (AVGO)
2001-2026
35,477.32%
Amazon (AMZN)
2001-2026
33,431.05%
Tesla (TSLA)
2001-2026
26,738.24%
Lam Research (LRCX)
2001-2026
26,492.76%
Amphenol (APH)
2001-2026
15,735.48%
Mastercard (MA)
2001-2026
15,460.07%
Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)
2001-2026
13,863.31%
KLA (KLAC)
2001-2026
11,814.3%
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM)
2001-2026
8,867.61%
ASML Holding NV ADR (ASML)
2001-2026
8,799.07%
Caterpillar (CAT)
2001-2026
6,842.1%
Arista Networks (ANET)
2001-2026
5,796.73%
Dell Technologies (DELL)
2001-2026
4,362.2%
Palo Alto Networks (PANW)
2001-2026
4,208.23%
Novo Nordisk A-S (NVO)
2001-2026
4,160.44%
Applied Materials (AMAT)
2001-2026
3,711.69%
Microsoft (MSFT)
2001-2026
3,602.53%
BHP (BHP)
2001-2026
3,540.8%
Costco Wholesale (COST)
2001-2026
3,515.01%
LIN TV (LIN)
2001-2026
3,368.71%
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
2001-2026
3,319.54%
UnitedHealth (UNH)
2001-2026
3,290.23%
Mega-cap stocks are treated as having a market cap of $200B+.