A trillion dollars. It’s a mind-boggling, almost inconceivable amount of money. For context, I think most people are able to conceive of a million dollars pretty easily – we’ve seen million dollar homes (or studio apartments in New York City), know actors or athletes that make a couple million a year, and maybe, if you’re lucky, you even have a 401k goal of north of a million by the time you retire. By extension, a billion is just a thousand millions. Not too crazy right? Well, to earn a trillion dollars you would have to earn that million a million times over. It is an unimaginable amount of wealth that for much of human history only really existed in theory to describe the totality of a resource on the planet. Then – in the modern era – governments, royal dynasties, and industries began to be able to describe their worth or value in the trillions of dollars. In the last couple decades several individual companies have also past that incredible trillion dollar mark. It looks like next could be the first individual worth a trillion dollars. But, before we get ahead of ourselves, what companies are worth a trillion dollars? Well, as of April 2025, there are seven companies that make the trillion dollar company list. Here they are:
1) Apple
Apple, currently led by CEO Tim Cook, was the first company to pass the trillion dollar mark (save an extremely brief trillion dollar valuation of Chinese company PetroChina when it went public in November of 2007) and make it on the trillion dollar company list. It is currently the most valuable company in the world with a market capitalization of over a staggering $3 trillion dollars (remember, three million millions everyone). One of the most visible brands in the world and a historic leader in consumer electronics, the tech company was founded by visionary leaders Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne in 1976. Wayne began as a co-founder but sold his 10% stake in the company back to Jobs and Wozniak just two weeks later – a decision that would cost him billions down the road. It has since grown to be one of the most recognizable companies to ever exist with innovative and exciting products like the iPhone, iPod, and Mac computers. It has notably been a favorite holding of famed investor Warren Buffet who is notoriously wary of the valuations of other tech companies once declaring apple to be “the greatest company in the world”.
Apple (AAPL) Market Cap: $3.13 Trillion
Apple (AAPL) Stock Price: $208.37
2) Microsoft
Microsoft is one of the most valuable company in the entire world. Founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen, Microsoft has steadily grown over the decades and is now a household name around the world. The tech titan, currently led by CEO Satya Nadella since 2014, did $245 billion in sales in 2024. In addition to the personal computer and software technology they are most well known for, Microsoft is also owns one of the big three of gaming, Xbox, as well as acquiring major videogame studio Activision in in October of 2023. Microsoft is also one of the leading backers of Sam Altman’s ChatGPT which is leading the charge in the AI revolution.
Microsoft (MSFT) Market Cap: $2.87 Trillion
Microsoft (MSFT) Stock Price: $387.30
3) Nvidia
Nvidia has been one of the companies most poised to take advantage of the AI boom in recent years with their semiconductors and chips being in exceptionally high demand as the artificial intelligence (AI) industry continues to skyrocket. Nvidia has been led since its inception in 1993 by current CEO and founder Jensen Huang. Their professional-grade GPUs are used in everything from top-of-the-line gaming to supercomputers around the world. It consistently boasts 70-80% market share in the GPU sector and they are more poised than ever to continue to grow and succeed moving into an increasingly AI-powered future.
Nvidia (NVDA) Market Cap: $2.60 Trillion
Nvidia (NVDA) Stock Price: $106.43
4) Amazon
If there is a company that comes to mind when one thinks of an omnipresent, all-powerful corporations with unlimited amounts of power and wealth – it would probably be Amazon; and yet, it is only the fourth most valuable company here on this trillion dollar company list. Amazon was started by founder and CEO Jeff Bezos as an online bookstore but has since ballooned into a company known for selling just about everything. As an online marketplace, major video streaming service, cloud computing company, and even getting back in the business of brick and mortar stores with the purchase of Whole Foods and establishment of Amazon Go, this little bookstore has come a long way.
Amazon (AMZN) Market Cap: $1.98 Trillion
Amazon (AMZN) Stock Price: $186.54
5) Alphabet (Google)
Realistically, how will the majority of people find this article? When people want to know which companies are worth a trillion dollars what will they do? What do most people do in general when need information fast? They’ll Google it. It’s a rare flex when your company name becomes a verb as well as a noun. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard someone say they were going to “Google” something on Yahoo, Bing or even a non-search platform like Facebook or TikTok. Turns out, it’s an over a trillion dollar flex. Founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were students at Stanford, it has been led by CEO Sundar Pichai since 2015 including when they surpassed the trillion dollar valuation mark on January 16th, 2020. In the half decade since then, they have only continued to grow and expand their business and investments including mega video streaming platform YouTube, fitness tracker company FitBit, and navigation service Waze.
Alphabet (GOOG) Market Cap: $1.95 Trillion
Alphabet (GOOG) Stock Price: $161.47
6) Meta (Facebook)
The social media conglomerate led by the singular vision of CEO Mark Zuckerburg has dipped in and out of the trillion dollar company list a couple times since it first crossed the threshold on June 28th, 2021. The transition from Facebook to the more ambitious umbrella company Meta was more tumultuous than expected as Zuckerburg moved the company away from a social media focus. Zuckerburg’s insistence on going all in on the virtual reality MetaVerse have been both criticized and praised as both innovative and foolhardy. In addition to the MetaVerse and social media juggernaut Facebook Meta owns Instagram, WhatsApp, and Twitter competitor Threads.
Meta (META) Market Cap: $1.23 Trillion
Meta (META) Stock Price: $533.15
7) Berkshire Hathaway
As the brainchild of legendary investor Warren Buffet, Berkshire Hathaway has the incredible distinction of being the only non-tech business to make its way onto the trillion dollar company list. It also is the oldest company on this list with a history stretching all the way back to 1839 originally as a textile company called Valley Falls Company. It underwent a number of changes in name and leadership before ending up with Buffet and his best friend Charlie Munger who transformed it in 1965 to the incredible company and investing conglomerate it is today with holdings in companies like Coca-Cola, American Express, and even fellow trillion-dollar company on this list, Apple.
Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A & BRK.B) Market Cap: $1.15 Trillion
Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A & BRK.B) Stock Price: $531.64
What is the Next Trillion Dollar Company?
When Apple became a trillion dollar company on August 2nd, 2018, it was a huge deal – since then, it feels like the flood gates have opened up and corporation after corporation has passed that trillion dollar threshold. The trillion dollar company list continues to grow and grow; so, who is next? Well, there are a couple candidates. The company currently closest is Tesla with a market valuation $833 billion. Tesla has also passed that trillion dollar market cap on several occasions before, for the fist time in October of 2021. However, Tesla has also experienced a significant drop in stock price of over 36% in 2025 alone and, more significantly, recently announced an astonishing 71% drop in profit in its first quarter earnings of the year. This has had people questioning whether Tesla’s time in the sun is over and wondering whether or not they will ever pass a trillion dollar market cap again. Semiconductor companies Broadcom and TSMC are also nipping on the heels of a trillion dollar valuation after slipping out of the club during the stock market slide at the beginning of 2025 as a response to Trump administration tariffs. However, both companies are poised to benefit from the AI boom in the future so its likely we will see them on the list again. Finally, pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly has recently become the 10th most profitable company with a market capitalization of $772 billion dollars in part off the promise of some of the new wildly popular class of weight loss drugs that have been flooding the market as of late.
It took a long time for the first company to hit that trillion dollar market cap mark but now it seems like it happens more and more frequently every day. These won’t be the only trillion dollar companies and I’m sure many more, including businesses yet to be conceived, will pass this mark in the future. Pretty soon, it looks like we may be making not just trillion dollar company lists, but trillion dollar people lists. In fact, a couple individual people like Elon Musk ($298 billion), Jeff Bezos ($196 billion), and Mark Zuckerberg ($183 billion) are well on their way to hitting the mark. What do you think the next business on this trillion dollar company list will be?