Collectively, the five companies have raised their market cap by about $2.9 trillion in 2023 — contributing 96% of the almost $3 trillion gains in the S&P 500's market value this year, Fortune reported on Wednesday.
Read further to know the five bigwigs' market capitalization — or marcap — gains this year, in descending order:1.
Apple: $718 billion in marcap gainsThe world's largest company by market cap, Apple shares ended 2022 at $129.93 apiece.
On Tuesday, the chipmaker's market cap briefly hit the coveted $1 trillion mark for the first time.
This takes Amazon's market cap to $1.25 trillion — up from $857 billion at the end of 2022.
Persons:
Fortune, Insider's Zahra Tayeb, Mohamed El, Read, Tim Cook, Cook, CNBC's Steve Kovach, Bing, Jensen Huang, Huang, Sundar Pichai, Pichai, Andy Jassy
Organizations:
Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia, Nasdaq, Allianz, Big Tech, CNBC, Wall, OpenAI, Bloomberg, Amazon
Locations:
California, Nvidia's