Bespoke Investment Group calculates that Monster Beverage produced the highest total return within the Russell 1000 from the March 2000 peak through March 2025. The energy drink company turned a one dollar investment into roughly one thousand two hundred dollars over the period.
Nvidia but also Apple also crossed the 10,000 percent threshold, yet they remain the lone technology names to reach that level.
Since the March 2020 low, oil and gas producers have dominated the leaderboard. Four of the five top performers come from the energy sector.
One hundred Russell 1000 members have multiplied one hundred fold since March 2000. Nineteen have delivered one-hundred-baggers.
The conventional assumption assigns the greatest long term gains to technology companies. Eight of the ten largest United States corporations by market capitalization operate in technology or technology driven media and consumer segments.
The Russell 1000’s top performer since March 24, 2000, remains Monster Beverage. The Corona, California, company sells flavored energy drinks under the Monster, Reign along with Predator labels.
Permian Basin oilfield owner and operator Diamondback Energy, footwear and apparel designer Deckers Outdoor, and credit-scoring software developer Fair Isaac round out the list of 100-baggers. Meta Platforms, Alphabet in addition to Amazon did not trade publicly in March 2000.
March 2025 marks both the twenty fifth anniversary of the Nasdaq peak and the fifth anniversary of the March 23, 2020, Covid-19 trough. From the trough through March 2025, energy producers claimed four of the five top spots in the Russell 1000. The lone exception, Bitcoin proxy MicroStrategy, advanced two thousand four hundred percent.