The Race to the Trillion-Dollar Market Cap

Summer is a busy time for the country's biggest tech giants. This year Apple and Google each rolled out a slew of new products at their respective developers' conferences, and Amazon and Microsoft continue to buy and integrate more companies under their massive umbrellas. The moves all feed the same ultimate goal of making these companies more money.

The big four are marching toward the next major profitability milestone: the trillion-dollar market capitalization. Statista aggregated data from Wolfram'Alpha Knowledgebase, Xignite, and Morningstar to chart how close Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, and Microsoft are to reaching the capitalist Holy Grail.

As of May 29, Apple is the clear frontrunner as the only company with a market cap of over $900 billion. Amazon is in a distant second with $782 billion, as it continues to integrate acquisitions such as Whole Foods; Alphabet and Microsoft aren't far behind with each hovering around the $750 billion mark.

According to NASDAQ's most recent rankings, though, Apple has lost a bit but still sits over $900 billion in a comfortable lead, Alphabet has crossed the $800 billion mark, and Microsoft now sits around $771 billion following its $7.5 billion deal to buy GitHub. In the home stretch, it's still Apple's race to lose.

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