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Jennifer Saibil, The Motley Fool
Mon, May 4, 2026 astatine 8:35 AM CDT 4 min read
It's been 8 years since Apple became the archetypal $1 trillion stock, and determination are present 10 U.S. companies that person reached that threshold. Apple has gone connected to go the archetypal $3 trillion company, too, and it's present joined by Microsoft, Alphabet and Nvidia successful the $3 trillion club, though Nvidia became the archetypal $4 trillion and concisely $5 trillion stock. (Apple and Alphabet person some crossed into $4 trillion territory, too).
The 5th largest institution successful the satellite is Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), and it's apt to articulation the others successful the $3 trillion nine shortly. Here's why.
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Amazon's investments are paying disconnected
Amazon has go the largest institution successful the satellite arsenic it keeps generating higher sales. They accrued 17% twelvemonth implicit twelvemonth successful the 2026 archetypal quarter, an awesome feat considering its size -- Amazon has an unprecedented $743 cardinal successful trailing-12-month sales.
It's experiencing maturation crossed its enterprise, not conscionable artificial quality (AI), though AI is playing a large relation successful the communicative close now. AI gross accrued by triple digits twelvemonth implicit twelvemonth successful the archetypal quarter, and that's coming from galore places. Customers prosecute with AI done Amazon's signature Bedrock platform, but it has galore AI services to acceptable each kinds of customized and premade needs, and its spot concern unsocial has been fantastic; it grew 40% 4th implicit quarter, with a $20 cardinal yearly tally rate.
Amazon Web Services, the unreality computing segment, which houses the main AI business, accrued 28% implicit past year, an acceleration. The AI concern is attracting much clients to the platform, which is already the biggest unreality concern successful the world.
But Amazon is truthful overmuch much than that. The e-commerce concern is thriving, with a 12% summation successful online store income and a 14% summation successful third-party sales. The institution continues to interruption records successful transportation speed, and it has already surpassed 1 cardinal items delivered overnight this year. Advertising remains robust arsenic well, up 24% implicit past year.
While determination were galore different highlights, of peculiar enactment is Amazon Leo, its outer broadband network. Amazon has acquired GlobalStar, which gives it direct-to-device capabilities, and it signed an statement with Delta for in-air Wi-Fi service. It volition besides supply work for iPhones and Apple watches.
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