performance mega cap sandp500 stocks jan 1997 to jan 1998

Amazon (AMZN) had the highest return between January 1, 1997 and January 31, 1998 by a mega-cap US stock in the S&P 500 (GSPC), returning 101.6%.

ASSETDATE% RETURN
Amazon (AMZN)
1/1/1997 - 1/31/1998
101.64%
Eli Lilly and (LLY)
1/1/1997 - 1/31/1998
87.63%
Applied Materials (AMAT)
1/1/1997 - 1/31/1998
82.93%
Home Depot (HD)
1/1/1997 - 1/31/1998
81.33%
Morgan Stanley (MS)
1/1/1997 - 1/31/1998
79.55%
Microsoft (MSFT)
1/1/1997 - 1/31/1998
79.47%
Walmart Inc Common Stock (WMT)
1/1/1997 - 1/31/1998
74.46%
Costco Wholesale (COST)
1/1/1997 - 1/31/1998
71.78%
Wells Fargo (WFC)
1/1/1997 - 1/31/1998
70.25%
GE Aerospace (GE)
1/1/1997 - 1/31/1998
59.67%
American Express (AXP)
1/1/1997 - 1/31/1998
51.26%
Verizon Communications (VZ)
1/1/1997 - 1/31/1998
50.34%
Merck (MRK)
1/1/1997 - 1/31/1998
50.2%
Procter & Gamble (PG)
1/1/1997 - 1/31/1998
48.93%
Cisco Systems (CSCO)
1/1/1997 - 1/31/1998
48.68%
Johnson & Johnson (JNJ)
1/1/1997 - 1/31/1998
36.12%
PepsiCo (PEP)
1/1/1997 - 1/31/1998
32.63%
Caterpillar (CAT)
1/1/1997 - 1/31/1998
30.17%
International Business Machines (IBM)
1/1/1997 - 1/31/1998
29.56%
Bank of America (BAC)
1/1/1997 - 1/31/1998
24.99%
Raytheon Technologies (RTX)
1/1/1997 - 1/31/1998
24.77%
Coca-Cola (KO)
1/1/1997 - 1/31/1998
24.44%
Intel (INTC)
1/1/1997 - 1/31/1998
23.18%
JPMorgan Chase (JPM)
1/1/1997 - 1/31/1998
21.63%
Exxon Mobil (XOM)
1/1/1997 - 1/31/1998
20.74%
Mega-cap stocks are treated as having a market cap of $200B+.