HSBC Holdings PLC ADR (HSBC) has had the lowest return this month by a mega-cap US stock, returning -4.6%.

ASSET	MONTH	% RETURN
HSBC Holdings PLC ADR (HSBC)	August 2026	-4.57%
UnitedHealth (UNH)	August 2026	-3.22%
Chevron (CVX)	August 2026	-3.15%
AbbVie (ABBV)	August 2026	-3.01%
Philip Morris International (PM)	August 2026	-2.26%
Amazon (AMZN)	August 2026	-2.17%
Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)	August 2026	-2.05%
Coca-Cola (KO)	August 2026	-1.84%
Costco Wholesale (COST)	August 2026	-1.66%
Shell PLC ADR (SHEL)	August 2026	-1.47%
Merck (MRK)	August 2026	-1.16%
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc ADR (MUFG)	August 2026	-0.97%
Novartis AG ADR (NVS)	August 2026	-0.93%
Walmart (WMT)	August 2026	-0.91%
Mastercard (MA)	August 2026	-0.7%
Toyota Motor Corporation ADR (TM)	August 2026	-0.3%
Wells Fargo (WFC)	August 2026	0.03%
Alibaba (BABA)	August 2026	0.17%
Royal Bank of Canada (RY)	August 2026	0.43%
Toronto Dominion Bank (TD)	August 2026	0.47%
American Express (AXP)	August 2026	0.5%
Visa Inc Class A (V)	August 2026	0.53%
Thermo Fisher Scientific (TMO)	August 2026	0.7%
JPMorgan Chase (JPM)	August 2026	0.72%
Goldman Sachs (GS)	August 2026	0.74%

Mega-cap stocks are treated as having a market cap of $200B+.