best mega-cap stocks of 2003 to 2008

Apple (AAPL) had the highest return between 2003 and 2008 by a mega-cap US stock, returning 1,088.4%.

ASSET YEARS % RETURN
Apple (AAPL)
2003-2008
1,088.4%
Netflix (NFLX)
2003-2008
404.43%
McDonald’s (MCD)
2003-2008
339.09%
Novo Nordisk A-S (NVO)
2003-2008
284.71%
Mastercard (MA)
2003-2008
257.63%
Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)
2003-2008
207.62%
Chevron (CVX)
2003-2008
167.33%
Amazon (AMZN)
2003-2008
167.22%
Exxon Mobil (XOM)
2003-2008
158.96%
LIN TV (LIN)
2003-2008
125.91%
Salesforce (CRM)
2003-2008
113.4%
Caterpillar (CAT)
2003-2008
108.41%
ASML Holding NV ADR (ASML)
2003-2008
102.91%
NVIDIA (NVDA)
2003-2008
101.74%
Royal Bank of Canada (RY)
2003-2008
98.34%
Costco Wholesale (COST)
2003-2008
94.68%
Raytheon Technologies (RTX)
2003-2008
90.43%
SAP SE ADR (SAP)
2003-2008
89.43%
Abbott Laboratories (ABT)
2003-2008
77.52%
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM)
2003-2008
74.2%
Procter & Gamble (PG)
2003-2008
62.38%
Oracle (ORCL)
2003-2008
62.07%
Novartis AG ADR (NVS)
2003-2008
54.83%
Shell PLC ADR (SHEL)
2003-2008
54.42%
JPMorgan Chase (JPM)
2003-2008
53.2%
Mega-cap stocks are treated as having a market cap of $200B+.