best performing stocks by quarter 1978

General Dynamics (GD) had the best quarter in 1978 by a US stock in Q2 1978, returning 76.2%.

ASSET QUARTER % RETURN
General Dynamics (GD)
Q2 1978
76.18%
Boeing (BA)
Q2 1978
58.25%
Medtronic (MDT)
Q3 1978
44.72%
Seaboard (SEB)
Q1 1978
41.57%
New York Times (NYT)
Q2 1978
38.65%
Skyworks Solutions (SWKS)
Q1 1978
37.52%
Lockheed Martin (LMT)
Q3 1978
30.23%
HP (HPQ)
Q2 1978
30.11%
Lockheed Martin (LMT)
Q2 1978
29.32%
Deere (DE)
Q2 1978
27.49%
3M (MMM)
Q2 1978
27.22%
Walmart (WMT)
Q2 1978
26.87%
WD-40 (WDFC)
Q2 1978
26.46%
Xerox (XRX)
Q2 1978
26.28%
Texas Instruments (TXN)
Q2 1978
25.09%
Revvity (RVTY)
Q3 1978
25%
Walt Disney (DIS)
Q2 1978
24.52%
BP PLC ADR (BP)
Q3 1978
24.2%
Ball (BALL)
Q2 1978
22.63%
Avnet (AVT)
Q3 1978
22.22%
Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY)
Q2 1978
22.13%
Boeing (BA)
Q3 1978
21.31%
Boeing (BA)
Q1 1978
20.88%
Revvity (RVTY)
Q2 1978
20.73%
Medtronic (MDT)
Q2 1978
20.69%