best performing large cap stocks 1970s

Boeing (BA) had the highest return in the 1970s by a large-cap US stock, returning 601%.

ASSET DECADE % RETURN
Boeing (BA)
1970s
601.03%
General Dynamics (GD)
1970s
445.58%
BP PLC ADR (BP)
1970s
320.26%
Lockheed Martin (LMT)
1970s
272.96%
Raytheon Technologies (RTX)
1970s
266.34%
Revvity (RVTY)
1970s
231.35%
Chevron (CVX)
1970s
228.33%
Deere (DE)
1970s
226.94%
Halliburton (HAL)
1970s
187.37%
HP (HPQ)
1970s
167.27%
Agnico Eagle Mines (AEM)
1970s
145.16%
Kroger (KR)
1970s
134.57%
Walmart (WMT)
1970s
115.79%
Consolidated Edison (ED)
1970s
109.18%
GE Aerospace (GE)
1970s
86.54%
Dupont De Nemours (DD)
1970s
75.1%
Procter & Gamble (PG)
1970s
74.87%
Motorola Solutions (MSI)
1970s
74.23%
Wells Fargo (WFC)
1970s
60.78%
Merck (MRK)
1970s
57.58%
PG&E (PCG)
1970s
56.17%
Medtronic (MDT)
1970s
53.31%
Sysco (SYY)
1970s
50.09%
Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY)
1970s
48.59%
Walt Disney (DIS)
1970s
33.94%
Large-cap stocks are treated as having a market cap of $10B+.