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The 3 Biggest Market Cap Companies + Horrible Financial Advice 11-17-25
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In this episode, Scott Becker reviews the soaring performance of the three largest market cap companies and pushes back on trending financial advice that encourages aggressive spending instead of long-term saving.
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This is Scott Becker from the Becker Private Equity and Becker Business podcast. Today's discussion, we're going to talk about the 3 big market cap companies, plus some financial advice from X that we think is horrible advice. And we're going to give you a couple of these different podcasts today. Hopefully you enjoy this. So the three biggest market cap companies currently are Nvidia, which is up about 42% year to date, has a market cap of 4.63 trillion. Nvidia is reporting earnings today or this week. And so this could change a lot depending on how that goes. Apple is up about 8.78% year to date and has a market cap of 4.03 trillion. It's rebounded a lot since the start of the year. And finally, Microsoft is up 21% and has a market cap of about 3.8 trillion. So those are the three biggest. The thing, I'll tell you just a couple other points on these two. Two of these. Nvidia is reporting earnings shortly and Apple is starting to look for its successor to Tim Cook, who's just done a brilliant job in lead Apple. Second, there's a great piece today on how Berkshire Hathaway has disclosed that it's invested about $5 billion in Alphabet. Alphabet is Google. It's up about 46% year to date. So that's, that's the big three by market cap plus Berkshire investing in Google, Alphabet about $5 billion. Google continued to hit it out of the park. Finally, the other thing I'll talk about is this. There's this concept on Twitter that people talk about constantly, which is you better spend money while you're alive because essentially you can't take it with you and so forth and so on. And again, of course, there's a lot of truth to that in like communism. It sounds good on its face. Everybody's equal to things. Perfect. The reality is if you get to my age, and I think many of these people writing on Twitter must be 20, 30 or 40, I don't know. And that's no negativity towards that. But the older you get, the more you see so many people that don't have money in old age that have outlived their money. So let me give you a different piece of advice is save as much as you fucking can and keep putting away money while you can and hope that you don't outlive your money. But this concept of, I agree with spending money to enjoy it, but the concept of spending money foolishly with the concept that you're going to live or have so much money when you die is literally insane for most people. Trend this horrendous advice. Thank you for listening to the Becker Business and the Becker Private Equity Podcast. Thank you for joining us.