best performing stocks in the sandp 1978 to 1979

Medtronic (MDT) had the highest return between 1978 and 1979 by a US stock in the S&P 500 (GSPC), returning 263.1%.

ASSETYEARS% RETURN
Medtronic (MDT)
1978-1979
263.13%
General Dynamics (GD)
1978-1979
239.22%
Boeing (BA)
1978-1979
177.57%
Revvity (RVTY)
1978-1979
175.38%
Lockheed Martin (LMT)
1978-1979
130.02%
Snap-On (SNA)
1978-1979
97.25%
Teradyne (TER)
1978-1979
91.88%
Deere (DE)
1978-1979
73.28%
Sysco (SYY)
1978-1979
71.52%
Eli Lilly and (LLY)
1978-1979
69.3%
HP (HPQ)
1978-1979
64.3%
Pfizer (PFE)
1978-1979
55.24%
Kroger (KR)
1978-1979
51.3%
American International (AIG)
1978-1979
48.75%
Motorola Solutions (MSI)
1978-1979
47.57%
S&P Global (SPGI)
1978-1979
47.4%
Chevron (CVX)
1978-1979
45.03%
Merck (MRK)
1978-1979
39.15%
Danaher (DHR)
1978-1979
36.82%
Dupont De Nemours (DD)
1978-1979
33.4%
Travelers Companies (TRV)
1978-1979
29.89%
McCormick (MKC)
1978-1979
26.83%
Texas Instruments (TXN)
1978-1979
25.12%
Altria (MO)
1978-1979
24.71%
Ball (BALL)
1978-1979
23.16%