Google's parent company, Alphabet, is now worth $3 trillion, a feat only achieved by three other tech giants: Nvidia , Microsoft , and Apple .

Alphabet shares gained more than 4% in value on Monday, allowing the company to achieve a historic market capitalization of $3.03 trillion at the time of writing. Market capitalization measures the total value of a company by multiplying its share price by the number of outstanding shares.

Alphabet hit the $3 trillion mark just over two decades after Google first went public in 2004, and more than 10 years after its own creation as Google's parent company.

Alphabet's market cap has grown tremendously, more than 70%, from a low of $1.8 trillion in April . The recent surge value is partially due to an antitrust ruling earlier this

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