best performing mega cap stocks 2003-2021

Apple (AAPL) had the highest return between 2003 and 2021 by a mega-cap US stock, returning 80,680.6%.

ASSETYEARS% RETURN
Apple (AAPL)
2003-2021
80,680.57%
Netflix (NFLX)
2003-2021
71,110.4%
NVIDIA (NVDA)
2003-2021
31,944.21%
Tesla (TSLA)
2003-2021
27,709.27%
Amazon (AMZN)
2003-2021
17,275.41%
Mastercard (MA)
2003-2021
9,484.48%
ASML Holding NV ADR (ASML)
2003-2021
9,228.82%
Lam Research (LRCX)
2003-2021
7,262.55%
Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)
2003-2021
5,688.26%
Broadcom (AVGO)
2003-2021
5,129.42%
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM)
2003-2021
3,801.32%
UnitedHealth (UNH)
2003-2021
2,794.67%
Costco Wholesale (COST)
2003-2021
2,768.63%
McDonald’s (MCD)
2003-2021
2,668.24%
Home Depot (HD)
2003-2021
2,525.69%
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
2003-2021
2,093.6%
KLA (KLAC)
2003-2021
2,056.21%
Microsoft (MSFT)
2003-2021
1,939.12%
Texas Instruments (TXN)
2003-2021
1,671.14%
LIN TV (LIN)
2003-2021
1,629.95%
Visa Inc Class A (V)
2003-2021
1,501.63%
Applied Materials (AMAT)
2003-2021
1,457.59%
Caterpillar (CAT)
2003-2021
1,293.28%
Royal Bank of Canada (RY)
2003-2021
1,091.66%
BHP (BHP)
2003-2021
1,016.66%
Mega-cap stocks are treated as having a market cap of $200B+.