best performing mega cap stocks each quarter of 1998

Amazon (AMZN) had the best quarter in 1998 by a mega-cap US stock in Q4 1998, returning 197.5%.

ASSET QUARTER % RETURN
Amazon (AMZN)
Q4 1998
197.46%
Amazon (AMZN)
Q2 1998
134.01%
ASML Holding NV ADR (ASML)
Q4 1998
108.55%
Apple (AAPL)
Q1 1998
101.66%
Morgan Stanley (MS)
Q4 1998
72.61%
JPMorgan Chase (JPM)
Q4 1998
68.55%
Home Depot (HD)
Q4 1998
61.12%
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
Q1 1998
59.25%
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
Q4 1998
58.36%
Costco Wholesale (COST)
Q4 1998
56.5%
Cisco Systems (CSCO)
Q4 1998
54.37%
Oracle (ORCL)
Q4 1998
51.65%
Walmart (WMT)
Q4 1998
50.96%
International Business Machines (IBM)
Q4 1998
47.64%
Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A)
Q1 1998
46.09%
Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B)
Q1 1998
45.87%
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM)
Q1 1998
42.76%
Amazon (AMZN)
Q1 1998
42.56%
Oracle (ORCL)
Q1 1998
41.06%
PepsiCo (PEP)
Q4 1998
39.61%
Microsoft (MSFT)
Q1 1998
38.09%
Adobe Systems (ADBE)
Q4 1998
37.65%
American Express (AXP)
Q4 1998
36.19%
ASML Holding NV ADR (ASML)
Q1 1998
35.94%
Cisco Systems (CSCO)
Q2 1998
34.03%
Mega-cap stocks are treated as having a market cap of $200B+.