best performing stock in the S&P500 going back to 1981
Home Depot (HD) had the highest return in 1981 by a US stock in the S&P 500 (GSPC), returning 66.9%. [1]
It is not easy to find a single stock with the highest return since 1981. The best I could find was 20 years: Monster (energy drinks) [2]
Other research shows the highest single year return on a stock ever was Qualcomm: +2620% in 1999 [3]
[1] https://www.statmuse.com/money/ask/best-performing-stocks-in...
[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/08/sp-500-stock-has-the-highest...
[3] https://www.visualcapitalist.com/top-sp-500-stocks-by-annual...
Compare that to Apple who is up about 150,000% since IPO and less since their S&P inclusion.
It is not easy to find a single stock with the highest return since 1981. The best I could find was 20 years: Monster (energy drinks) [2]
Other research shows the highest single year return on a stock ever was Qualcomm: +2620% in 1999 [3]
[1] https://www.statmuse.com/money/ask/best-performing-stocks-in...
[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/08/sp-500-stock-has-the-highest...
[3] https://www.visualcapitalist.com/top-sp-500-stocks-by-annual...