Mega-Cap Stocks

The world's largest public companies, each valued above $200 billion. These industry titans drive global market trends.

84 stocks Updated Aug 8, 2026
$1,621.75T Total Market Cap
38.9 Avg P/E Ratio
$290.51 Avg Share Price
+1.96% Avg Daily Change

Mega-cap stocks are the largest publicly traded companies in the world, each with a market capitalization exceeding $200 billion. These corporate giants dominate their industries and collectively account for a substantial portion of major indices like the S&P 500. Names like Apple, Microsoft, and Nvidia have become synonymous with market leadership and drive significant market movements on any given day.

Investing in mega-caps offers relative stability compared to smaller companies, with the trade-off of typically slower growth rates. These firms generate massive cash flows, maintain strong balance sheets, and often return capital to shareholders through dividends and share buybacks. Their scale provides competitive moats that are extremely difficult for challengers to breach.

However, mega-cap concentration poses risks to passive investors. The top 10 stocks now represent a historically large share of the S&P 500's total value, meaning broad index funds are heavily tilted toward these names. This list tracks all stocks above the $200 billion threshold with daily-updated prices, P/E ratios, and 52-week ranges.

# Symbol Name Price Change % Market Cap P/E 52W High 52W Low
1 SSNLF Samsung Electronics $140.00 +114.69% 1,371.15T 31.0 $223,000.00 $53,700.00
2 TSM Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing $420.23 +0.49% 54.07T 28.0 $2,100.00 $816.00
3 TM Toyota Motor Corporation $188.49 +1.40% 44.21T 12.0 $4,000.00 $2,409.00
4 MUFG Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group $22.49 -0.13% 32.95T 17.1 $3,087.00 $1,630.50
5 SONY Sony Group Corporation $23.42 +1.39% 20.41T $4,776.00 $3,136.00
6 HDB HDFC Bank Limited $23.63 -0.59% 12.27T 16.5 $1,020.50 $726.65
7 IBN ICICI Bank Limited $30.22 -0.85% 9.17T 17.3 $1,500.00 $1,187.60
8 INFY Infosys Limited $12.53 +1.38% 5.40T 19.3 $1,728.00 $1,215.10
9 NVDA NVIDIA Corp $223.96 +2.27% 5.38T 33.7 $236.54 $164.07
10 TCEHY Tencent Holdings $60.73 -1.35% 4.68T 18.7 $683.00 $440.20
11 AAPL Apple Inc $313.33 +0.29% 4.57T 35.4 $344.57 $205.59
12 GOOGL Alphabet Inc $354.30 -0.96% 4.34T 17.8 $408.61 $193.67
13 GOOG Alphabet Inc-Cl C $353.47 -0.88% 4.34T 17.8 $408.61 $193.67
14 MSFT Microsoft Corp $499.99 +0.03% 3.74T 28.0 $553.72 $349.20
15 AMZN Amazon.com Inc $274.48 +0.82% 2.98T 22.1 $287.20 $196.00
16 IDCBY Industrial & Commercial Bank of China $18.31 +0.39% 2.54T 6.9 $8.40 $6.77
17 ACGBY Agricultural Bank of China $18.87 +0.37% 2.40T 8.2 $8.68 $5.11
18 WIT Wipro Limited $2.02 +1.51% 2.13T 16.0 $273.10 $186.50
19 AVGO Broadcom Inc. $427.76 +1.71% 2.02T 69.0 $495.00 $281.87
20 ASX ASE Technology Holding Co $37.39 +0.38% 1.97T 48.5 $463.00 $127.00
21 BACHY Bank of China Limited $16.79 +0.63% 1.72T 7.1 $6.39 $5.13
22 META Meta Platforms Inc $592.10 +0.37% 1.50T 22.1 $796.25 $520.26
23 TSLA Tesla Inc $328.58 +2.83% 1.30T 341.0 $498.83 $297.38
24 NVO Novo Nordisk A/S $47.26 +2.81% 1.14T 11.2 $533.40 $224.25
25 LLY Eli Lilly and Co. $1,185.71 -0.52% 1.11T 41.4 $1,249.45 $623.78
26 RDY Dr. Reddy's Laboratories $12.22 +0.91% 1.01T 18.2 $1,379.70 $1,020.00
27 BRK.B Berkshire Hathaway Inc $521.80 -0.54% 1.01T 14.0 $788,294.90 $693,021.00
28 MU Micron Technology Inc $877.57 -0.44% 985.62B 19.5 $1,255.00 $106.75
29 JPM JPMorgan Chase & Co $357.52 +0.34% 958.14B 14.7 $363.00 $279.10
30 EQNR Equinor ASA $39.35 -0.28% 903.95B 19.1 $422.30 $226.40
31 WMT Walmart Inc $111.85 -0.20% 891.86B 39.2 $135.16 $95.42
32 AMD Advanced Micro Devices Inc $483.36 -1.21% 783.26B 121.7 $584.73 $149.22
33 V Visa Inc $362.50 -2.15% 691.69B 30.6 $373.97 $293.89
34 XOM Exxon Mobil Corp $153.04 -1.16% 636.70B 19.4 $176.41 $105.53
35 JNJ Johnson & Johnson $259.24 +0.88% 617.08B 29.3 $274.90 $169.68
36 INTC Intel Corp $101.65 +1.84% 511.36B $142.35 $19.60
37 MA Mastercard Inc $562.95 -2.26% 498.79B 30.7 $601.77 $464.52
38 CSCO Cisco Systems Inc $121.43 +0.46% 478.61B 40.0 $130.37 $65.75
39 ASML ASML Holding N.V. $1,733.05 +1.68% 467.01B 45.7 $1,312.80 $548.90
40 BAC Bank of America Corp $63.17 +0.27% 439.91B 13.1 $63.97 $44.78
41 AMAT Applied Materials Inc $539.14 +2.21% 431.39B 50.7 $739.67 $154.47
42 ABBV Abbvie Inc $246.04 +0.89% 430.95B 118.6 $267.47 $190.75
43 ORCL Oracle Corporation $147.02 +2.47% 417.52B 24.4 $345.72 $114.50
44 COST Costco Wholesale Corp. $947.82 -0.14% 417.29B 47.2 $1,096.50 $844.06
45 PLTR Palantir Technologies $172.01 +10.32% 413.36B 137.0 $207.52 $106.37
46 RY Royal Bank Of Canada $211.08 -0.18% 412.15B 18.6 $306.38 $177.75
47 LRCX Lam Research Corp $311.35 +1.82% 391.87B 53.9 $438.50 $94.11
48 GE GE Aerospace $370.08 -1.19% 389.71B 43.5 $388.84 $263.80
49 CAT Caterpillar Inc. $842.19 -1.72% 387.45B 35.7 $1,073.46 $405.46
50 CVX Chevron Corporation $186.56 -1.41% 373.07B 18.1 $214.71 $146.49
51 KO Coca-Cola Co. $87.05 +0.23% 372.99B 26.1 $90.92 $65.35
52 UNH UnitedHealth Group Inc $407.08 +0.77% 370.03B 26.2 $461.62 $239.50
53 HD Home Depot Inc $355.62 +1.75% 351.52B 25.1 $426.75 $289.10
54 PG Procter & Gamble Co $145.79 -0.80% 338.45B 20.4 $167.25 $137.62
55 MS Morgan Stanley $216.33 +1.21% 337.31B 16.7 $232.25 $140.51
56 MRK Merck & Co. Inc. $128.58 +0.16% 315.27B 99.4 $135.05 $77.58
57 JD JD.com Inc $32.92 +0.34% 312.29B 13.9 $149.50 $95.90
58 NFLX Netflix Inc $74.14 +0.61% 309.65B 22.7 $126.71 $65.08
59 GS Goldman Sachs Group $1,039.61 +0.68% 304.26B 14.5 $1,153.99 $705.55
60 RTX Rtx Corp $223.03 -0.10% 300.37B 38.8 $225.65 $150.61
61 CBAUF Commonwealth Bank of Australia $125.60 +2.72% 297.76B 28.8 $192.00 $146.98
62 PM Philip Morris International $189.57 +0.81% 295.33B 27.2 $207.76 $142.11
63 DELL Dell Technologies -C $453.77 +3.68% 293.76B 34.9 $485.70 $110.22
64 PANW Palo Alto Networks Inc $363.86 +1.22% 292.98B 347.6 $376.98 $139.57
65 BABA Alibaba Group Holding Limited $126.59 -1.51% 292.44B 21.5 $192.67 $103.71
66 TD Toronto-Dominion Bank $121.31 +0.11% 287.16B 19.3 $175.33 $100.01
67 BHP BHP Group Limited $90.41 +2.86% 284.11B 19.9 $59.39 $35.52
68 WFC Wells Fargo & Co $87.25 -0.39% 264.87B 11.7 $97.76 $72.78
69 GEV Ge Vernova Inc $990.32 -1.00% 263.76B 27.7 $1,195.94 $530.16
70 TXN Texas Instruments Inc $286.08 +2.76% 260.37B 43.0 $334.03 $152.73
71 KLAC Kla Corp $198.11 +2.53% 257.05B 53.2 $307.37 $83.22
72 ANET Arista Networks Inc $188.67 -1.90% 242.56B 60.0 $214.89 $114.52
73 LVMUY LVMH Moët Hennessy $110.85 -0.71% 240.62B 22.1 $654.70 $436.55
74 C Citigroup Inc $135.00 +0.88% 231.29B 13.0 $147.96 $90.68
75 AZN AstraZeneca PLC $160.46 -0.64% 230.48B 30.5 $15,730.00 $9,651.00
76 HSBC HSBC Holdings plc $103.48 +0.90% 229.95B 11.3 $1,410.40 $781.60
77 AXP American Express Co $340.91 -0.49% 229.75B 20.1 $387.49 $290.63
78 LIN Linde Plc $489.98 -0.03% 225.87B 31.2 $548.20 $387.78
79 IBM Intl Business Machines Corp $237.28 +1.65% 221.15B 20.6 $332.46 $199.19
80 AMGN Amgen Inc $410.95 +1.51% 219.39B 25.1 $418.40 $269.77
81 CRWD Crowdstrike Holdings Inc - A $214.42 +3.39% 216.88B $219.35 $85.68
82 TMO Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc $594.00 +2.41% 216.08B 31.0 $643.99 $435.27
83 NVS Novartis AG $154.21 -0.15% 216.04B 19.7 $131.00 $87.20
84 APH Amphenol Corp-Cl A $169.18 -0.84% 212.44B 41.3 $178.52 $104.71

Frequently Asked Questions

What are mega-cap stocks?
Mega-cap stocks are companies with market capitalizations above $200 billion. There is no official regulatory definition, but this threshold is widely used by financial professionals. As of 2026, roughly 30-40 U.S.-listed companies qualify as mega-caps. These include technology giants, major financial institutions, healthcare conglomerates, and energy leaders. Mega-caps are the most liquid stocks in the world, with billions of dollars traded daily.
Are mega-cap stocks safe investments?
Mega-caps are generally less volatile than smaller stocks and have lower bankruptcy risk, but they are not risk-free. Even mega-caps can lose 30-50% during bear markets — Apple fell 40% in the 2022 downturn. Their size provides advantages like diversified revenue streams, strong balance sheets, and pricing power, but regulatory risk, industry disruption, and valuation compression can still cause significant losses. Safety is relative, not absolute.
What is the Magnificent 7?
The Magnificent 7 refers to Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet (Google), Meta, Nvidia, and Tesla — seven mega-cap technology companies that have driven the majority of S&P 500 returns in recent years. These stocks collectively represent over 30% of the S&P 500 by weight. Their outsized market influence has raised concentration concerns, as the performance of the broad market has become heavily dependent on just these seven names.
Do mega-cap stocks pay dividends?
Many mega-caps pay dividends, though yields are typically modest at 0.5-2.5%. Companies like Apple, Microsoft, and JPMorgan Chase pay regular dividends while also conducting massive share buyback programs. Some mega-caps like Amazon, Tesla, and Meta have historically not paid dividends, preferring to reinvest profits into growth. The total shareholder return from mega-caps often combines capital appreciation with dividends and buybacks.
How much of the S&P 500 are mega-cap stocks?
Mega-cap stocks represent approximately 35-40% of the S&P 500's total market value, with the top 10 stocks alone accounting for over 30%. This concentration level is historically elevated and means that S&P 500 index fund investors have significant mega-cap exposure whether they intend to or not. Equal-weight versions of the S&P 500 provide more balanced exposure across all 500 components.
Can mega-cap stocks still grow?
Despite their size, many mega-caps continue to grow meaningfully. Companies like Nvidia and Meta have delivered 50%+ revenue growth even at massive scale. The key is whether a company can expand into new markets and product categories — cloud computing, AI, digital advertising, and electric vehicles have provided growth avenues for existing mega-caps. However, the law of large numbers makes sustaining high growth rates increasingly difficult above $1 trillion in market cap.
What is the difference between mega-cap and large-cap stocks?
Mega-cap stocks exceed $200 billion in market value, while large-caps typically range from $10 billion to $200 billion. Mega-caps are a subset of large-caps — all mega-caps are large-caps, but not all large-caps are mega-caps. Mega-caps tend to have higher liquidity, more analyst coverage, and greater index influence. Large-caps outside the mega-cap range often offer more growth potential but with slightly less stability and market dominance.
Should I invest in mega-cap stocks or index funds?
For most investors, broad index funds already provide substantial mega-cap exposure since these stocks dominate major indices. If you want additional mega-cap concentration, the Vanguard Mega Cap ETF (MGC) or individual stock positions are options. The advantage of individual mega-caps is selecting specific companies you believe will outperform. The advantage of index funds is automatic diversification and rebalancing without the risk of picking the wrong mega-cap.

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