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Nvidia is the first company to pass $5.5 trillion in market cap.

05/17/2026

Many people say the S&P 500 is concentrated in just 7 stocks (the Mag 7) — but that framing misses the point entirely.

The Mag 7 isn’t 7 companies. It’s roughly 850.
Google alone has acquired 270 businesses. YouTube — just one of them — would rank as a top-20 US stock if spun out tomorrow. DeepMind, Waymo, Android, Maps, Google Cloud — each a category leader hidden inside one ticker.

Microsoft owns LinkedIn (the world’s professional network), GitHub (where every developer lives), Activision Blizzard ($69B gaming empire), Xbox, and Azure.

Meta owns Instagram (bought for $1B, now worth $500B+) and WhatsApp (3 billion users).

Amazon owns Whole Foods, MGM Studios, Twitch, Ring, Zappos, and AWS — itself larger than most Fortune 500 companies.

Apple has quietly acquired over 100 companies. The chip in your iPhone traces back to P.A. Semi. Siri, Beats, Shazam — all acquisitions.

Nvidia owns Mellanox (networking backbone of AI data centers) and ARM-adjacent IP across the stack.

When you buy the Mag 7, you’re not buying 7 stocks. You’re buying 850 businesses wearing 7 tickers. That’s diversification — disguised as concentration.