best performing sandp stocks 1973-1999

Home Depot (HD) had the highest return between 1973 and 1999 by a US stock in the S&P 500 (GSPC), returning 236,865.5%.

ASSET YEARS % RETURN
Home Depot (HD)
1973-1999
236,865.5%
Nike (NKE)
1973-1999
139,500%
Walmart (WMT)
1973-1999
121,648.76%
Altria (MO)
1973-1999
72,050%
Cisco Systems (CSCO)
1973-1999
69,179.25%
Microsoft (MSFT)
1973-1999
65,860.15%
Oracle (ORCL)
1973-1999
44,173.62%
Paychex (PAYX)
1973-1999
21,395.17%
US Bancorp (USB)
1973-1999
21,151.21%
Franklin Resources (BEN)
1973-1999
19,419.05%
Sysco (SYY)
1973-1999
18,388.53%
Applied Materials (AMAT)
1973-1999
17,716.92%
Amgen (AMGN)
1973-1999
17,373.54%
Qualcomm (QCOM)
1973-1999
17,235.5%
Johnson Controls International (JCI)
1973-1999
15,800.72%
Church & Dwight (CHD)
1973-1999
14,666.2%
Aflac (AFL)
1973-1999
13,409.7%
Best Buy (BBY)
1973-1999
13,303.28%
Medtronic (MDT)
1973-1999
12,478.64%
Bank of New York Mellon (BK)
1973-1999
12,420.73%
Target (TGT)
1973-1999
11,435.05%
Danaher (DHR)
1973-1999
10,988.43%
Adobe Systems (ADBE)
1973-1999
10,782.4%
Boeing (BA)
1973-1999
10,136.78%
General Dynamics (GD)
1973-1999
8,888.73%