By Billy Leung
Publication Date: 2025-11-18 18:00:00
Apple overtook Microsoft in size to become the world’s second-largest company after reporting record revenue of just over $1 billion in the first quarter of fiscal 2025-26, driving its shares to a record high of $277 after the company gained about 28 percent in six months.
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Alphabet has also achieved significant milestones. The Google owner recently announced that the AI-driven cloud boom pushed its quarterly revenue past $100 billion for the first time in the first quarter of fiscal 25-26. Shares of the owner of the ubiquitous Gmail, Chrome, Gemini and Google Meet apps hit a new record high of $291.59 and are up around 70 percent in six months.
Chipmaker Broadcom made Meta the sixth-largest company in the world for good reason. More than 99 percent of all Internet traffic passes through at least one Broadcom computer chip.
The company has teamed up with Alphabet and OpenAI to make custom computer chips for both, and its shares have risen 41 percent in six months, also…
