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Unconventional lessons from trillion-dollar stocks

More than a handful of mega-cap stocks have undergone business transformations, charting new paths of growth

    • Trillion-dollar companies such as Apple and Microsoft have found new paths of growth beyond where they started.
    • Trillion-dollar companies such as Apple and Microsoft have found new paths of growth beyond where they started. PHOTO: REUTERS
    Published Tue, May 14, 2024 · 05:37 PM

    TRILLION-DOLLAR stocks are a rare breed.

    At the moment, there are only six listed US companies that made the mark, namely Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta Platforms, Microsoft and Nvidia. I count myself as fortunate to own five of these six unconventional stocks.

    My oldest holding is Apple, bought in 2010 – 14 years ago. More recently, I purchased shares of Microsoft in 2020, four years ago. You can learn a great deal from holding stocks for years, even decades.