best performing mega cap stocks 1997-2006

Amazon (AMZN) had the highest return between 1997 and 2006 by a mega-cap US stock, returning 1,518.5%.

ASSETYEARS% RETURN
Amazon (AMZN)
1997-2006
1,518.54%
Apple (AAPL)
1997-2006
1,506.89%
NVIDIA (NVDA)
1997-2006
1,309.98%
UnitedHealth (UNH)
1997-2006
859.81%
Royal Bank of Canada (RY)
1997-2006
622.85%
ASML Holding NV ADR (ASML)
1997-2006
497.1%
Morgan Stanley (MS)
1997-2006
476.27%
Lam Research (LRCX)
1997-2006
437.54%
Citigroup (C)
1997-2006
431.62%
SAP SE ADR (SAP)
1997-2006
406.1%
BHP (BHP)
1997-2006
392.24%
Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)
1997-2006
360.48%
Raytheon Technologies (RTX)
1997-2006
341.96%
Walmart (WMT)
1997-2006
333.21%
Costco Wholesale (COST)
1997-2006
330.06%
Wells Fargo (WFC)
1997-2006
318.34%
Applied Materials (AMAT)
1997-2006
317.9%
American Express (AXP)
1997-2006
305.03%
Cisco Systems (CSCO)
1997-2006
286.59%
Home Depot (HD)
1997-2006
284.89%
Texas Instruments (TXN)
1997-2006
273.97%
Oracle (ORCL)
1997-2006
266.2%
Exxon Mobil (XOM)
1997-2006
254.25%
Caterpillar (CAT)
1997-2006
241.08%
Microsoft (MSFT)
1997-2006
232.77%
Mega-cap stocks are treated as having a market cap of $200B+.