what is the most performance mega cap stock between january 1 2004 and january 1 2021

Apple (AAPL) had the highest return between January 1, 2004 and January 1, 2021 by a mega-cap US stock, returning 39,879.2%.

ASSET DATE % RETURN
Apple (AAPL)
1/1/2004 - 1/1/2021
39,879.16%
Tesla (TSLA)
1/1/2004 - 1/1/2021
18,469.76%
Netflix (NFLX)
1/1/2004 - 1/1/2021
13,065.74%
Mastercard (MA)
1/1/2004 - 1/1/2021
9,374.52%
NVIDIA (NVDA)
1/1/2004 - 1/1/2021
7,129.76%
Amazon (AMZN)
1/1/2004 - 1/1/2021
6,073.1%
Salesforce (CRM)
1/1/2004 - 1/1/2021
5,834.17%
Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)
1/1/2004 - 1/1/2021
3,401.61%
Broadcom (AVGO)
1/1/2004 - 1/1/2021
3,241.94%
ASML Holding NV ADR (ASML)
1/1/2004 - 1/1/2021
2,317.45%
Novo Nordisk A-S (NVO)
1/1/2004 - 1/1/2021
2,261.71%
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM)
1/1/2004 - 1/1/2021
2,098.93%
Visa Inc Class A (V)
1/1/2004 - 1/1/2021
1,506.68%
Costco Wholesale (COST)
1/1/2004 - 1/1/2021
1,334.77%
UnitedHealth (UNH)
1/1/2004 - 1/1/2021
1,309.18%
McDonald’s (MCD)
1/1/2004 - 1/1/2021
1,282.32%
Microsoft (MSFT)
1/1/2004 - 1/1/2021
1,156.87%
Home Depot (HD)
1/1/2004 - 1/1/2021
1,005.16%
LIN TV (LIN)
1/1/2004 - 1/1/2021
871.43%
Walt Disney (DIS)
1/1/2004 - 1/1/2021
858.46%
Abbott Laboratories (ABT)
1/1/2004 - 1/1/2021
752.79%
Caterpillar (CAT)
1/1/2004 - 1/1/2021
563.86%
Royal Bank of Canada (RY)
1/1/2004 - 1/1/2021
556.1%
Facebook (META)
1/1/2004 - 1/1/2021
549.61%
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
1/1/2004 - 1/1/2021
507.35%
Mega-cap stocks are treated as having a market cap of $200B+.