World’s first $4 trillion public company, Nvidia sets world record

September 5, 2025

New York City, NY, United States--Nvidia Corporation, an American technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. closed for the first time with a market cap above $4 trillion, on July 10, 2025, setting the world record for being the World’s first $4 trillion public company, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

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"Nvidia has become the first company in the world to reach a market value of $4tn," the BBC reports.

"Shares in the chip-maker rose by as much as 2.4% to $164 on Wednesday, as the company continues to benefit from the ongoing surge in demand for the tech that powers artificial intelligence (AI).

"The US-based company reached a market value of $1tn for the first time in June 2023, and has continued to climb rapidly since."

"Nvidia on Wednesday briefly hit $4 trillion in market value, making it the first publicly traded company to hit that milestone.

"Nvidia stock rose 2.76% after the market opened on Wednesday to hit an intraday record high that pushed its market value above the $4 trillion mark," the CNN reports. Nvidia then pared its gains but finished the day up by 1.8%, putting the company’s market value at just below $4 trillion."

"Nvidia and Microsoft traded places as the world’s most valuable company in recent months, before Nvidia surged ahead to reach the $4 trillion mark first. The US chipmaker has had a remarkable march to record highs and has soared around 21% this year, thanks to its leading role powering the artificial intelligence boom."

"Nvidia Corporation is an American technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. Founded in 1993 by Jensen Huang (president and CEO), Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem, it develops graphics processing units (GPUs), systems on chips (SoCs), and application programming interfaces (APIs) for data science, high-performance computing, and mobile and automotive applications.

"Originally focused on GPUs for video gaming, Nvidia broadened their use into other markets, including artificial intelligence (AI), professional visualization, and supercomputing. The company's product lines include GeForce GPUs for gaming and creative workloads, and professional GPUs for edge computing, scientific research, and industrial applications. As of the first quarter of 2025, Nvidia held a 92% share of the discrete desktop and laptop GPU market." (Wikipedia)

"On March 1, 2024, Nvidia became the third company in the history of the United States to close with a market capitalization in excess of $2 trillion. Nvidia needed only 180 days to get to $2 trillion from $1 trillion, while the first two companies, Apple and Microsoft, each took over 500 days. On March 18, Nvidia announced its new AI chip and microarchitecture Blackwell, named after mathematician David Blackwell.

"The company became the world's most valuable, surpassing Microsoft and Apple, on June 18, 2024, after its market capitalization exceeded $3.3 trillion.

"On July 10, 2025, Nvidia closed for the first time with a market cap above $4 trillion, after its market cap briefly touched and then retreated from that number during the previous day.[149] Nvidia became the first company to reach a market cap of $4 trillion.[150] At that point, Nvidia was worth more than the combined value of all publicly traded companies in the United Kingdom." (Wikipedia)

"US-based chipmaker Nvidia has become the world’s first-ever $4 trillion (£2.9tn) company after its shares rose again on Wednesday, surpassing $164 soon after trading opened," The Independent reports.

"Shares only hit a new record high as recently as two weeks ago, but a continued push from investors back into the stock markets has seen them fly even higher.

"Nvidia has been one of the companies benefitting most from the AI revolution, given their data centre business produces the semiconductor chips used by many other firms around the world. The data centre sector of Nvidia generated sales of $39.1bn (£28.5bn) in the most recent quarter."

"Nvidia stock rose on Wednesday lifting the company’s market cap briefly past $4 trillion for the first time as investors scooped up shares of the tech giant that’s building the bulk of the hardware for the generative artificial intelligence boom," the CNBC reports.

"Nvidia is the world’s most valuable company, surpassing Microsoft and Apple, both of which hit the $3 trillion mark before Nvidia. Microsoft is also one of Nvidia’s biggest and most important customers. The chipmaker is the first company to ever achieve this market value during trading.

"The California-based company, which was founded in 1993, first passed the $2 trillion mark in February 2024, and surpassed $3 trillion in June."

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"Shares in the Silicon Valley-based maker of artificial intelligence chips rose as much as 2.8 per cent on Wednesday to a peak of $164.42 to surpass the milestone, but ultimately closed 1.8 per cent higher at a valuation of $3.97tn. The group had already surpassed Apple’s $3.92tn record from last December.

"The company has become the biggest beneficiary of a tech boom that has exceeded the headiest days of the dotcom era, thanks to its dominance of the chips that fuel AI services such as ChatGPT, the OpenAI chatbot that has become the fastest-growing app of all time."