best performing mega-cap stocks in last 20 years

NVIDIA (NVDA) has had the highest return between October 12, 2005 and October 12, 2025 by a mega-cap US stock, returning 75,461.1%.

ASSET DATE % RETURN
NVIDIA (NVDA)
10/12/2005 - 10/12/2025
75,461.06%
Tesla (TSLA)
10/12/2005 - 10/12/2025
32,543.09%
Netflix (NFLX)
10/12/2005 - 10/12/2025
30,217.82%
Broadcom (AVGO)
10/12/2005 - 10/12/2025
27,387.72%
Apple (AAPL)
10/12/2005 - 10/12/2025
16,693.56%
Mastercard (MA)
10/12/2005 - 10/12/2025
15,123.38%
Amazon (AMZN)
10/12/2005 - 10/12/2025
9,984.83%
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM)
10/12/2005 - 10/12/2025
6,366.37%
ASML Holding NV ADR (ASML)
10/12/2005 - 10/12/2025
5,795.44%
Salesforce (CRM)
10/12/2005 - 10/12/2025
4,403.83%
Novo Nordisk A-S (NVO)
10/12/2005 - 10/12/2025
3,171.09%
Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)
10/12/2005 - 10/12/2025
3,018.92%
Oracle (ORCL)
10/12/2005 - 10/12/2025
2,931.11%
Microsoft (MSFT)
10/12/2005 - 10/12/2025
2,898.19%
Costco Wholesale (COST)
10/12/2005 - 10/12/2025
2,886.39%
Eli Lilly and (LLY)
10/12/2005 - 10/12/2025
2,760.97%
Visa Inc Class A (V)
10/12/2005 - 10/12/2025
2,512.37%
Palantir Technologies Inc Class A Common Stock (PLTR)
10/12/2005 - 10/12/2025
1,654.4%
Facebook (META)
10/12/2005 - 10/12/2025
1,587.63%
McDonald’s (MCD)
10/12/2005 - 10/12/2025
1,519.4%
Home Depot (HD)
10/12/2005 - 10/12/2025
1,513.73%
JPMorgan Chase (JPM)
10/12/2005 - 10/12/2025
1,428.81%
Micron Technology (MU)
10/12/2005 - 10/12/2025
1,382.46%
Caterpillar (CAT)
10/12/2005 - 10/12/2025
1,361.7%
LIN TV (LIN)
10/12/2005 - 10/12/2025
1,337.71%
Mega-cap stocks are treated as having a market cap of $200B+.