best performing mega cap stocks 2005-2009

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

ASSET YEARS % RETURN
Apple (AAPL)
2005-2009
550.58%
Mastercard (MA)
2005-2009
542.77%
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
156.74%
Royal Bank of Canada (RY)
2005-2009
141.61%
NVIDIA (NVDA)
2005-2009
130.22%
McDonald’s (MCD)
2005-2009
125.8%
ASML Holding NV ADR (ASML)
2005-2009
110.45%
LIN TV (LIN)
2005-2009
98.42%
Oracle (ORCL)
2005-2009
78.05%
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM)
2005-2009
77.07%
Chevron (CVX)
2005-2009
71.99%
Goldman Sachs (GS)
2005-2009
68.36%
Coca-Cola (KO)
2005-2009
56.8%
AstraZeneca PLC ADR (AZN)
2005-2009
54.28%
Visa Inc Class A (V)
2005-2009
48.48%
Raytheon Technologies (RTX)
2005-2009
48.44%
Exxon Mobil (XOM)
2005-2009
47.43%
International Business Machines (IBM)
2005-2009
42.39%
Merck (MRK)
2005-2009
41.89%
Shell PLC ADR (SHEL)
2005-2009
34.37%
Caterpillar (CAT)
2005-2009
32.75%
Mega-cap stocks are treated as having a market cap of $200B+.