A trio of growth drivers and a long history of strong execution will secure this company's membership in an elite fraternity.

The U.S. economy has undergone a paradigm shift over the past two decades. In 2005, the two largest publicly traded companies in the U.S., when measured by market cap , were energy giant ExxonMobil at $392 billion and industrial bellwether General Electric worth $375 billion. Now, just 20 years later, technology companies spearheading advances in artificial intelligence (AI) rule the roost.

Four household names top the list . AI chipmaker Nvidia is the frontrunner at $4.5 trillion (as of this writing), regularly climbing to new heights. Cloud and software provider Microsoft takes up second place, worth $3.9 trillion. iPhone maker Apple is nipping a

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