1 Unstoppable Stock to Buy Before It Joins Nvidia, Apple, Microsoft, and Alphabet in the $3 Trillion Club
Nine American companies have achieved valuations of $1 trillion or more, but only four of them have entered the ultra-exclusive $3 trillion club:
Nvidia: 4.6 trillion dollars
Alphabet: 4.1 trillion dollars
Apple: 3.8 trillion dollars
Microsoft: 3.2 trillion dollars
According to me Meta Platforms(NASDAQ:META) may join them in the coming years artificial intelligence (AI) is increasing engagement on social media applications such as Facebook and Instagram, resulting in rapid growth in operating results.
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As I write this, the company’s market cap is $1.8 trillion, so investors who are buying commodity stock If it joins the $3 trillion club today, it could generate a 67% return.
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Almost 3.6 billion people use at least one of Meta’s social networks every day. Since this already represents nearly half the planet, it becomes difficult for the company to grow its user base. This poses a risk to the advertising business from which it derives most of its revenue.
That’s why Meta is now focusing more on increasing engagement. It uses tools like artificial intelligence to learn what kind of content each user likes to see on Facebook and Instagram, so it can feed them more content to keep them online longer. This means they see more ads, which ultimately leads to more revenue.
In the third quarter of 2025 (ended September 30), AI-powered recommendations led to a 30% (year-over-year) increase in the time users spent watching Reels on Instagram, so this strategy was a huge success.
However, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants to take his artificial intelligence strategy one step further. He believes that soon every user will have a personalized AI agent that understands their interests, so they will be greeted with even more specific content every time they open Facebook or Instagram. He even thinks that these representatives will have the capacity to produce new content for each user; I think this will accelerate the transition of social networks from places for connecting with friends to platforms for pure entertainment.
Meta generated total revenue of $200.9 billion in 2025, an increase of 22% compared to the previous year. However, the company’s earnings shrank It rose 2% to $23.49 per share, but that was mainly due to the massive one-time tax provision caused by the Trump administration’s “big beautiful bill.”
If this provision were at the same level as in 2024, Meta’s 2025 earnings would actually be grown rose 26% to $30.16 per share.
Moving on, one of the key factors investors watched in Meta’s last earnings report was capex (capital expenditures), which reflects the amount of money the company is spending on data center infrastructure, chips, and components for AI projects. It reached $72.2 billion, a record figure for the year; This represents a whopping 84% increase compared to 2024.
Meta wouldn’t have spent this much money if it didn’t foresee a return at some point in the future; thus, the increase in capital expenditures can be interpreted as a measure of confidence in the potential success of AI. In this context, the company plans to spend even more in 2026, with management predicting that capital expenditures will be between $115 billion and $135 billion.
Based on Meta’s 2025 earnings per share of $23.49, its shares are trading at a price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 30.5. This is a slight discount Nasdaq-100 The index currently has a P/E ratio of 32.9, so you could argue that Meta is cheap relative to its big tech peers.
According to Wall Street’s consensus estimate (provided by Yahoo! Finance), Meta’s earnings could rise to $29.56 per share in 2026, followed by $34.30 in 2027, and the stock’s forward P/E ratios would be 23.9 and 20.6, respectively.
This means Meta shares would need to rise 48% before the end of 2027 to maintain its current P/E ratio of 30.5, which would increase its market cap to $2.66 trillion. If Meta’s P/E ratio were to match the Nasdaq-100’s P/E ratio, its shares would have to rise by 60% over the same period. This would increase its market cap to $2.88 trillion; This is a stone’s throw away from the coveted $3 trillion milestone.
Therefore, as long as Meta delivers at least 4.2% earnings growth in 2028, it could enter the $3 trillion club that year. However, if Wall Street’s 2028 forecasts look strong, investors are likely to start pricing upside in 2027, which could allow the company to reach its valuation milestone sooner.
In summary, I think it is only a matter of time before Meta becomes a member of the exclusive $3 trillion club.
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