by Fred Fuld III
At the time this is being written, 1:09 am PT on October 29, 2021, the largest US publicly traded company by market cap is Microsoft (MSFT) at $2.478 trillion.
In second position is Apple at $2.462 trillion.
Surprisingly, Google, I mean Alphabet (GOOGL) is ahead of Amazon (AMZN), Tesla (TSLA), and Facebook (FB), I mean Meta. Alphabet has a market cap of $1.956 trillion.
Check out the list below. Market cap values are in trillion dollars.
| MSFT | 2.478 |
| AAPL | 2.462 |
| GOOGL | 1.956 |
| AMZN | 1.698 |
| TSLA | 1.104 |
| FB | 0.902 |
Do you think we will ever see quadrillion dollar companies?