best performing stocks in the sandp aug 1980

Sysco (SYY) had the highest return in August 1980 by a US stock in the S&P 500 (GSPC), returning 13.5%.

ASSET MONTH % RETURN
Sysco (SYY)
August 1980
13.5%
APA (APA)
August 1980
13.02%
Texas Instruments (TXN)
August 1980
11.53%
Walmart (WMT)
August 1980
10.4%
Molson Coors Brewing (TAP)
August 1980
10.24%
Lockheed Martin (LMT)
August 1980
8.74%
Automatic Data Processing (ADP)
August 1980
8.09%
Cincinnati Financial (CINF)
August 1980
7.58%
Motorola Solutions (MSI)
August 1980
5.8%
Medtronic (MDT)
August 1980
5.79%
American International (AIG)
August 1980
5.49%
Archer-Daniels-Midland (ADM)
August 1980
5.33%
McDonald’s (MCD)
August 1980
4.68%
Schlumberger (SLB)
August 1980
4.11%
Entergy (ETR)
August 1980
4.04%
Southwest Airlines (LUV)
August 1980
3.67%
Colgate-Palmolive (CL)
August 1980
3.33%
Danaher (DHR)
August 1980
3.23%
Aflac (AFL)
August 1980
3.13%
Hess (HES)
August 1980
2.52%
Union Pacific (UNP)
August 1980
2.4%
Wells Fargo (WFC)
August 1980
2.06%
International Business Machines (IBM)
August 1980
1.72%
Target (TGT)
August 1980
1.52%
Air Products and Chemicals (APD)
August 1980
1.37%