best performing mega stocks 2001 - 2015

Apple (AAPL) had the highest return between 2001 and 2015 by a mega-cap US stock, returning 10,538.6%.

ASSET YEARS % RETURN
Apple (AAPL)
2001-2015
10,538.56%
Netflix (NFLX)
2001-2015
9,791.04%
Amazon (AMZN)
2001-2015
4,174%
Mastercard (MA)
2001-2015
2,403.46%
Salesforce (CRM)
2001-2015
1,990.7%
Novo Nordisk A-S (NVO)
2001-2015
1,966.6%
Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)
2001-2015
1,454.38%
Tesla (TSLA)
2001-2015
1,163.18%
Broadcom (AVGO)
2001-2015
854.67%
UnitedHealth (UNH)
2001-2015
740.13%
NVIDIA (NVDA)
2001-2015
537.67%
LIN TV (LIN)
2001-2015
518.96%
Visa Inc Class A (V)
2001-2015
450.71%
Royal Bank of Canada (RY)
2001-2015
446.02%
McDonald’s (MCD)
2001-2015
412.52%
Costco Wholesale (COST)
2001-2015
408.49%
Home Depot (HD)
2001-2015
290.36%
ASML Holding NV ADR (ASML)
2001-2015
284.77%
Caterpillar (CAT)
2001-2015
283.66%
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM)
2001-2015
274.78%
Microsoft (MSFT)
2001-2015
260.38%
Chevron (CVX)
2001-2015
251.58%
Raytheon Technologies (RTX)
2001-2015
232.77%
Abbott Laboratories (ABT)
2001-2015
226.56%
Novartis AG ADR (NVS)
2001-2015
201.1%
Mega-cap stocks are treated as having a market cap of $200B+.