Apple (AAPL) had the highest return between 2005 and 2009 by a mega-cap US stock, returning 550.6%.

best mega cap growth stocks from 2005-2009
ASSET YEARS % RETURN
Apple (AAPL) 2005-2009 550.61%
Mastercard (MA) 2005-2009 542.75%
Salesforce (CRM) 2005-2009 349.54%
Netflix (NFLX) 2005-2009 341.42%
Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL) 2005-2009 214.07%
Amazon (AMZN) 2005-2009 198.6%
Novo Nordisk A-S (NVO) 2005-2009 152.47%
NVIDIA (NVDA) 2005-2009 130.32%
ASML Holding NV ADR (ASML) 2005-2009 105.07%
LIN TV (LIN) 2005-2009 98.42%
Oracle (ORCL) 2005-2009 78.31%
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM) 2005-2009 77.07%
Chevron (CVX) 2005-2009 71.99%
Thermo Fisher Scientific (TMO) 2005-2009 58.23%
Coca-Cola (KO) 2005-2009 56.8%
AstraZeneca PLC ADR (AZN) 2005-2009 54.28%
Visa Inc Class A (V) 2005-2009 48.48%
Exxon Mobil (XOM) 2005-2009 47.43%
Merck (MRK) 2005-2009 41.86%
PepsiCo (PEP) 2005-2009 30.61%
Costco Wholesale (COST) 2005-2009 29.36%
Shell PLC ADR (SHEL) 2005-2009 27.61%
Novartis AG ADR (NVS) 2005-2009 23.97%
Microsoft (MSFT) 2005-2009 23.38%
JPMorgan Chase (JPM) 2005-2009 22.95%
Mega-cap stocks are treated as having a market cap of $200B+.

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