Axios: Corporate power shift. Great graphic to those who have held share portfolios over 5 decades.

Charted: Corporate power shift
 
A table showing the top 10 U.S. companies by market capitalization, every 10 years from 1985 to 2025. Most of the top companies in 2025 were new that year, such as Nvidia, Amazon and Alphabet. Microsoft has been third on the list since 2005, and Apple has been ranked first since 2015. None of the companies on the list in 1985 remained four decades later.Data: J.P. Morgan Asset Management. (Royal Dutch Shell and Shell Oil operated as two legal entities before they were integrated in 2005.) Table: Kavya Beheraj/Axios

Only four of the top 10 biggest companies in America by market cap last year were on the list a decade before: Apple, Microsoft, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase.

Why it matters: Big tech, particularly the Magnificent Seven, might seem like an enduring force, but life comes at you fast. The biggest companies change over time, Axios Markets author Emily Peck writes.📈 

Stunning stat: The top 10’s total market cap in 2025 was an astonishing $19.4 trillion.

In 2015, it was $3.2 trillion.
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Life event that changes all: Horse riding accident in Zimbabwe in 1993, a fractured skull et al including bipolar anxiety, chronic fatigue …. co-morbidities (Nietzche 'He who has the reason why can deal with any how' details my health history from 1993 to date). 17th 2017 August operation for breast cancer (no indications just an appointment came from BreastCheck through the Post). Trinity College Dublin Business Economics and Social Studies (but no degree) 1997-2003; UCD 1997/1998 night classes) essays, projects, writings. Trinity Horizon Programme 1997/98 (Centre for Women Studies Trinity College Dublin/St. Patrick's Foundation (Professor McKeon) EU Horizon funded: research study of 15 women (I was one of this group and it became the cornerstone of my journey to now 2017) over 9 mth period diagnosed with depression and their reintegration into society, with special emphasis on work, arts, further education; Notes from time at Trinity Horizon Project 1997/98; Articles written for Irishhealth.com 2003/2004; St Patricks Foundation monthly lecture notes for a specific period in time; Selection of Poetry including poems written by people I know; Quotations 1998-2017; other writings mainly with theme of social justice under the heading Citizen Journalism Ireland. Letters written to friends about life in Zimbabwe; Family history including Michael Comyn KC, my grandfather, my grandmother's family, the O'Donnellan ffrench Blake-Forsters; Moral wrong: An acrimonious divorce but the real injustice was the Catholic Church granting an annulment – you can read it and make your own judgment, I have mine. Topics I have written about include annual Brain Awareness week, Mashonaland Irish Associataion in Zimbabwe, Suicide (a life sentence to those left behind); Nostalgia: Tara Hill, Co. Meath.
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