best sandp 500 stocks 1978

Boeing (BA) had the highest return in 1978 by a US stock in the S&P 500 (GSPC), returning 156.5%.

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ASSET YEAR % RETURN
Boeing (BA)
1978
156.47%
General Dynamics (GD)
1978
73.79%
Revvity (RVTY)
1978
69.36%
Medtronic (MDT)
1978
68.69%
Deere (DE)
1978
46.73%
Skyworks Solutions (SWKS)
1978
41.14%
3M (MMM)
1978
35.99%
Sysco (SYY)
1978
35.35%
Kroger (KR)
1978
34.51%
Eli Lilly and (LLY)
1978
30.78%
Lockheed Martin (LMT)
1978
30%
American International (AIG)
1978
26.87%
Merck (MRK)
1978
26.42%
HP (HPQ)
1978
24.14%
Coca-Cola (KO)
1978
24.09%
Chevron (CVX)
1978
20.57%
Ball (BALL)
1978
19.22%
International Business Machines (IBM)
1978
16.04%
Walmart (WMT)
1978
14.48%
Raytheon Technologies (RTX)
1978
13.91%
Wells Fargo (WFC)
1978
13.67%
Motorola Solutions (MSI)
1978
12.02%
Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY)
1978
10.25%
Texas Instruments (TXN)
1978
9.21%
Bank of New York Mellon (BK)
1978
8.07%