best performing large cap stocks by month 1973

Walmart (WMT) had the best month in 1973 by a large-cap US stock in July 1973, returning 58.5%.

ASSET MONTH % RETURN
Walmart (WMT)
July 1973
58.49%
General Dynamics (GD)
July 1973
36.48%
Revvity (RVTY)
July 1973
32.54%
Textron (TXT)
July 1973
29.41%
Colgate-Palmolive (CL)
July 1973
27.53%
Sysco (SYY)
October 1973
25.13%
Medtronic (MDT)
July 1973
24.74%
Texas Instruments (TXN)
July 1973
24.61%
Deere (DE)
July 1973
23.55%
Sysco (SYY)
July 1973
23.36%
Chevron (CVX)
December 1973
22.28%
American International (AIG)
July 1973
21.65%
Raytheon Technologies (RTX)
September 1973
20.79%
Deere (DE)
August 1973
19.24%
Becton Dickinson and (BDX)
July 1973
18.56%
Textron (TXT)
September 1973
18.39%
Kroger (KR)
September 1973
17.65%
BP PLC ADR (BP)
September 1973
17.5%
NiSource (NI)
September 1973
17.34%
Motorola Solutions (MSI)
September 1973
17.07%
BP PLC ADR (BP)
March 1973
17.01%
Motorola Solutions (MSI)
July 1973
16.71%
Boeing (BA)
September 1973
16.64%
Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY)
July 1973
16.47%
Ball (BALL)
August 1973
16.3%
Large-cap stocks are treated as having a market cap of $10B+.