By accelerating the growth of AWS, Amazon is expected to achieve a market value of $3 trillion.
Meta Platforms, the cheapest large-cap tech stock, could get a big boost from continued growth and tighter spending.
If Broadcom can capitalize on the huge growth opportunity in custom AI chips ahead of it, its stock price could reach $3 trillion.
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Currently, there are four companies with market capitalizations in excess of $3 trillion: NVIDIA(NASDAQ: NVDA), apple(NASDAQ:AAPL), letter(Nasdaq: Google)(Nasdaq: Google)and Microsoft(NASDAQ:MSFT). That number could increase to seven by the end of next year.
Let’s take a look at three stocks that could top the $3 trillion mark in 2026.
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With a market capitalization of US$2.4 billion, Amazon(NASDAQ: AMZN) are the companies most eligible to join the exclusive club next year, requiring a 25% increase. While the stock has been a laggard over the past few years, the company is well-positioned heading into 2026.
One reason Amazon’s stock is lagging is that while its cloud computing unit, Amazon Web Services (AWS), is growing rapidly, its growth lags behind Microsoft’s Azure and Alphabet’s Google Cloud. However, AWS revenue started to accelerate last quarter, rising 20%, and the company is increasing spending on artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure to meet growing demand. Meanwhile, its massive Project Rainier for Anthropic continues to advance, recently signing a $38 billion deal with OpenAI. It is also in talks with OpenAI for an investment that would see the company use its custom Trainium AI chips.
Meanwhile, the company’s e-commerce business has gained strong operating leverage from investments in robotics and artificial intelligence. The stock trades at a forward price-to-earnings ratio of 28 times, and there is still room for growth next year.
Market capitalization reaches US$1.7 trillion, meta platform(NASDAQ: META) It has more work to do than Amazon, which needs more than 75% growth in 2026 to reach $3 trillion. However, don’t count inventory. It’s the cheapest of the big tech stocks, trading at less than 22 times forward earnings, while growing rapidly, with revenue climbing 26% last quarter.
Meta’s stock price rose sharply at the end of the year as investors worried about its spending. However, the company will reportedly cut spending on its money-losing Metaverse project to focus more on artificial intelligence, an area in which it has already seen decent returns.
Meta is seeing a huge boost from artificial intelligence, and the company has been using the technology to improve its recommendation algorithms, resulting in users spending more time on its site. At the same time, it uses artificial intelligence to help advertisers create better campaigns and improve ad targeting. The positive impact can be seen in the third quarter, with a 14% increase in ad impressions and a 10% increase in ad prices as its ads became more effective. It has also just begun introducing advertising on its WhatsApp and Threads platforms, which should help drive future growth.
If the company can cut some of its more wasteful spending, assuage investor concerns, and continue to grow at its current pace, the company’s share price could hit $3 trillion next year.
Broadcom(NASDAQ:AVGO) is another company that could hit the $3 trillion mark in 2026. Earlier this month, its shares fell nearly 20%, giving it a market value of $1.6 trillion. However, the company faces explosive growth opportunities that could drive its stock price significantly higher in 2026.
Broadcom’s networking portfolio has been growing strongly due to data center expansions, but its biggest opportunity is in helping customers design custom artificial intelligence application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs). ASICs are preprogrammed chips designed for specific tasks; therefore, they perform better than general-purpose graphics processing units (GPUs) and are more energy-efficient. That last part is especially important for inference, which is an ongoing expense and one that customers are increasingly looking to as a cheaper alternative to Nvidia.
Broadcom helped Alphabet design its highly successful tensor processing unit (TPU), which caused other companies to flock to its services. It recently signed a massive deal with OpenAI worth hundreds of billions of dollars, while Anthropic will deploy $21 billion in Alphabet’s TPUs in 2026. At the same time, it said its initial three customers could represent an opportunity of up to $90 billion in fiscal 2027. In addition, there are reports that Apple is working with Broadcom to develop an AI chip, which may be put into mass production next year.
That’s just a massive growth opportunity for a company that had total revenue of just under $64 billion last fiscal year (ended in October). If Broadcom can achieve this growth, and Apple does begin deploying Broadcom-designed AI chips, the stock could soar next year, reaching a market cap of $3 trillion.
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Geoffrey Seiler has worked at Alphabet and Amazon. The Motley Fool owns and recommends Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta Platforms, Microsoft and Nvidia. The Motley Fool recommends Broadcom and recommends the following options: Buy $395 Microsoft calls in January 2026, and buy $405 Microsoft calls in January 2026. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.
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