Overview
- LSEG/Reuters figures place Nvidia at $4.63 trillion and Apple at $4.04 trillion, with Alphabet rising to third and Microsoft now fourth.
- U.S. companies account for 62 of the world’s top 100 by value in the latest tally, and separate analysis estimates they hold roughly three quarters of the top‑100 market capitalization.
- A Handelsblatt analysis reported that Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Broadcom, Meta, Microsoft and Nvidia together are worth about €18.3 trillion, exceeding the combined €18.1 trillion value of 7,500 European companies.
- Europe’s leaders lag in the ranking, with ASML at 24th at roughly $412 billion and Germany’s SAP down to 44th at about $300 billion.
- Beyond the very top, Broadcom and TSMC sit in the top ten and Palantir jumped to 22nd after a 160% market‑cap surge, while strategists forecast further AI‑driven profit growth into 2026.