best performance stocks in the sandp 500 from jan 2002 to dec 2002

Tractor Supply (TSCO) had the highest return between January 1, 2002 and December 31, 2002 by a US stock in the S&P 500 (GSPC), returning 119.6%.

ASSET DATE % RETURN
Tractor Supply (TSCO)
1/1/2002 - 12/31/2002
119.61%
Old Dominion Freight Line (ODFL)
1/1/2002 - 12/31/2002
113.07%
Boston Scientific (BSX)
1/1/2002 - 12/31/2002
78.66%
Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp Class A (CTSH)
1/1/2002 - 12/31/2002
76.53%
Amazon (AMZN)
1/1/2002 - 12/31/2002
72.73%
Tapestry (TPR)
1/1/2002 - 12/31/2002
70.92%
NVR (NVR)
1/1/2002 - 12/31/2002
67.44%
Newmont Goldcorp (NEM)
1/1/2002 - 12/31/2002
53.48%
Centene (CNC)
1/1/2002 - 12/31/2002
48.17%
Halliburton (HAL)
1/1/2002 - 12/31/2002
47.77%
Ball (BALL)
1/1/2002 - 12/31/2002
45.93%
Take-Two Interactive Software (TTWO)
1/1/2002 - 12/31/2002
44.55%
Smith AO (AOS)
1/1/2002 - 12/31/2002
41.36%
Garmin (GRMN)
1/1/2002 - 12/31/2002
39.46%
Zimmer Biomet (ZBH)
1/1/2002 - 12/31/2002
37.07%
Lennox International (LII)
1/1/2002 - 12/31/2002
32.86%
STERIS (STE)
1/1/2002 - 12/31/2002
32.66%
Hologic (HOLX)
1/1/2002 - 12/31/2002
31.29%
Ross Stores (ROST)
1/1/2002 - 12/31/2002
31.27%
Rollins (ROL)
1/1/2002 - 12/31/2002
28.5%
Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold (FCX)
1/1/2002 - 12/31/2002
26.64%
Elevance Health (ELV)
1/1/2002 - 12/31/2002
26.61%
Principal Financial (PFG)
1/1/2002 - 12/31/2002
26.41%
JB Hunt Transport Services (JBHT)
1/1/2002 - 12/31/2002
26.35%
Lockheed Martin (LMT)
1/1/2002 - 12/31/2002
26.09%