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Reddit post argues market-cap ceilings have repeatedly been called ridiculous

A Reddit r/stocks post argues that people have repeatedly called market-cap ceilings ridiculous over decades, citing the first $1 trillion public company and talk of companies approaching $6 trillion. It also notes market caps compound in percentages rather than trillion-dollar increments.

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  • Only community or trader posts: r/stocks

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What the sources claim

  1. The poster says people act as if a company approaching $6 trillion means the market has lost its mind, and argues this same argument has repeated throughout stock-market history.

    “I keep seeing posts acting like a company approaching $6 trillion automatically means the market has lost its mind.”
    r/stocks
  2. The poster says that within 18 years of 2000 there would be the first $1 trillion public company, and not long after, talk of companies approaching $6 trillion.

    “within 18 years we’d have our first $1 trillion public company, and not long after that we’d be talking about companies approaching $6 trillion”
    r/stocks
  3. The poster says market caps compound in percentages, not in neat trillion-dollar increments.

    “Market caps compound in percentages, not in neat trillion-dollar increments.”
    r/stocks

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Summary and claims extracted by deepseek/deepseek-flash with prompt analyze-story@3 on 2026-10-07 04:10 UTC. Labels are computed from the sources, not by the model.