best performing mega stocks 2001-2026

NVIDIA (NVDA) has had the highest return between 2001 and 2026 by a mega-cap US stock, returning 167,594.8%.

ASSETYEARS% RETURN
NVIDIA (NVDA)
2001-2026
167,594.75%
Apple (AAPL)
2001-2026
156,251.17%
Netflix (NFLX)
2001-2026
56,863.67%
Amazon (AMZN)
2001-2026
31,264.61%
Tesla (TSLA)
2001-2026
29,285.02%
Broadcom (AVGO)
2001-2026
27,342.42%
Lam Research (LRCX)
2001-2026
18,076.79%
Mastercard (MA)
2001-2026
17,037.99%
Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)
2001-2026
12,816.38%
Alphabet Inc Class C (GOOG)
2001-2026
12,758.88%
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM)
2001-2026
8,744.07%
ASML Holding NV New York Registry Shares (ASML)
2001-2026
7,469.43%
Salesforce (CRM)
2001-2026
6,654.99%
Caterpillar (CAT)
2001-2026
5,479.79%
Marvell Technology (MRVL)
2001-2026
4,999.53%
Arista Networks (ANET)
2001-2026
4,891.75%
Palo Alto Networks (PANW)
2001-2026
4,040.15%
Dell Technologies (DELL)
2001-2026
4,021.54%
Microsoft (MSFT)
2001-2026
3,815.74%
Costco Wholesale (COST)
2001-2026
3,670.87%
LIN TV (LIN)
2001-2026
3,603.06%
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
2001-2026
3,558.69%
UnitedHealth (UNH)
2001-2026
3,473.94%
Visa Inc Class A (V)
2001-2026
3,025.85%
Royal Bank of Canada (RY)
2001-2026
2,983.87%
Mega-cap stocks are treated as having a market cap of $200B+.