best performing stocks by year 1978

Raytheon Technologies (RTX) had the best year in 1978 by a US stock in 1978, returning 2,796.2%.

ASSET YEAR % RETURN
Raytheon Technologies (RTX)
1978
2,796.17%
Boeing (BA)
1978
156.47%
Revvity (RVTY)
1978
69.35%
Medtronic (MDT)
1978
68.72%
WD-40 (WDFC)
1978
63.08%
New York Times (NYT)
1978
49.67%
Deere (DE)
1978
46.71%
3M (MMM)
1978
35.99%
Sysco (SYY)
1978
35.37%
Kroger (KR)
1978
34.5%
Eli Lilly and (LLY)
1978
30.8%
Lockheed Martin (LMT)
1978
30.01%
American International (AIG)
1978
26.87%
Merck (MRK)
1978
26.44%
HP (HPQ)
1978
24.11%
Coca-Cola (KO)
1978
24.09%
Chevron (CVX)
1978
20.58%
BP PLC ADR (BP)
1978
20.15%
Ball (BALL)
1978
19.18%
Xerox (XRX)
1978
18.42%
Sony (SONY)
1978
17.58%
International Business Machines (IBM)
1978
16.04%
Walmart (WMT)
1978
14.38%
Wells Fargo (WFC)
1978
13.66%
Motorola Solutions (MSI)
1978
12.03%