Here are some of Wall Street's biggest investor cash cows, by decade
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/27/wall-streets-biggest-cash-cows-include-apple-ibm-microsoft-exxon.html
Exxon-Mobile. Apple. AT&T. Procter and Gamble. JPMorgan Chase.
These corporate giants preside over businesses that pour money into the economy in numerous ways. As publicly traded companies widely held by investors around the world, one of their major functions is to return value to shareholders — which many of them have done for years.