best performing mega-cap stocks from january 2001 to january 2022

Apple (AAPL) had the highest return between January 1, 2001 and January 31, 2022 by a mega-cap US stock, returning 76,637.5%.

ASSET DATE % RETURN
Apple (AAPL)
1/1/2001 - 1/31/2022
76,637.48%
Netflix (NFLX)
1/1/2001 - 1/31/2022
36,837.05%
Tesla (TSLA)
1/1/2001 - 1/31/2022
24,549.85%
NVIDIA (NVDA)
1/1/2001 - 1/31/2022
19,282.87%
Amazon (AMZN)
1/1/2001 - 1/31/2022
18,816.59%
Mastercard (MA)
1/1/2001 - 1/31/2022
10,219.98%
Salesforce (CRM)
1/1/2001 - 1/31/2022
6,103.57%
Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)
1/1/2001 - 1/31/2022
5,306.43%
Broadcom (AVGO)
1/1/2001 - 1/31/2022
4,504.5%
Novo Nordisk A-S (NVO)
1/1/2001 - 1/31/2022
4,012.46%
UnitedHealth (UNH)
1/1/2001 - 1/31/2022
3,602.65%
ASML Holding NV ADR (ASML)
1/1/2001 - 1/31/2022
3,019.58%
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM)
1/1/2001 - 1/31/2022
2,315.77%
Thermo Fisher Scientific (TMO)
1/1/2001 - 1/31/2022
2,283.82%
Microsoft (MSFT)
1/1/2001 - 1/31/2022
2,134.79%
LIN TV (LIN)
1/1/2001 - 1/31/2022
2,074.7%
Costco Wholesale (COST)
1/1/2001 - 1/31/2022
1,702.04%
Visa Inc Class A (V)
1/1/2001 - 1/31/2022
1,571.54%
Royal Bank of Canada (RY)
1/1/2001 - 1/31/2022
1,384.62%
Caterpillar (CAT)
1/1/2001 - 1/31/2022
1,256.12%
McDonald’s (MCD)
1/1/2001 - 1/31/2022
1,210.24%
Home Depot (HD)
1/1/2001 - 1/31/2022
1,142.46%
Abbott Laboratories (ABT)
1/1/2001 - 1/31/2022
941.74%
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
1/1/2001 - 1/31/2022
708.85%
Facebook (META)
1/1/2001 - 1/31/2022
644.97%
Mega-cap stocks are treated as having a market cap of $200B+.