In the complex world of stock markets, prices fluctuate like the tides. Yet, amidst this ever-shifting landscape, some stocks stand out as very expensive.
Have you ever wondered which company has the priciest stock in the world? It’s not too hard to find out, but it does involve checking a lot of companies worldwide with high stock prices.
To make things easier, we have compiled a list of the most expensive stocks in the world. It’s important to note that “expensive” here refers only to the price of a single share of a publicly traded company, not necessarily its value or quality.
To keep things simple, we have converted all figures into United States dollars.
Did you know?
The NYSE, the world’s largest stock exchange by market capitalization, lists over 2,220 companies. Of these, 1,700+ are domestic, and 560+ are international. Their combined market cap is over $30 trillion.
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19. Monolithic Power Systems Inc
52-Week High Stock Price: $1,123Market Cap: $48.13 billion
Exchange: NYSE
Monolithic Power Systems’ (MPS) mission is to reduce energy and material consumption and improve quality of life through highly-integrated power electronics.
Its technologies are critical in markets such as cloud computing, AI hardware, automotive electrification, and industrial power systems. MPS’s solutions are embedded in products from major customers like Apple, Dell, Amazon Web Services, Tesla, and Nvidia, highlighting its strong presence in high-growth sectors.
In FY 2025, the company generated over $2.5 billion in revenue, maintaining a gross margin exceeding 55% and operating margin near 25%, which are exceptional figures for a semiconductor company.
The company is evolving its business model: moving from being a “chip-only semiconductor supplier” to a “full-service, silicon-based solutions provider.” It aims to deliver more system-level modules, including advanced packaging and integration that go beyond traditional integrated circuits.
18. Fair Isaac Corp
52-Week High Stock Price: $2,402Market Cap: $39.83 billion
Exchange: NYSE
Fair Isaac Corporation (FICO) is one of the world’s most influential analytics and decision-management companies, founded by engineer Bill Fair and mathematician Earl Isaac.
The company pioneered the use of data analytics and algorithms for credit risk assessment. Its flagship creation, the FICO Score, is arguably the most widely used consumer credit score in the USA.
It holds more than 200 patents and has built a broad platform that spans beyond simple credit scoring into decision automation, fraud detection, collections, insurance claims, customer management, etc.
FICO’s financial performance has been characterized by consistent earnings growth and exceptional stock appreciation over the past decade. Its revenue grew from about $850 million in 2015 to over $1.9 billion in 2025.
17. BlackRock
Market Cap: $167.94 billion
Exchange: NYSE
BlackRock is the world’s largest asset management firm, overseeing more than $13.5 trillion in client assets across virtually every asset class. It manages assets for institutional investors, governments, and individual clients in 100+ countries.
The company distinguishes itself through its risk management expertise. Its proprietary analytics platform, Aladdin, became the backbone of its risk evaluation process and is now widely used across the global investment community.
BlackRock has a dominant position in the exchange-traded fund (ETF) market through its iShares platform, which alone manages over $5 trillion in assets under management (AUM).
In 2024, the firm reported net inflows of $641 billion. Thanks to its massive scale and strong cash flow, BlackRock is able to invest aggressively in new platforms, acquisitions, and technological advancements.
16. Texas Pacific Land Corp
52-Week High Stock Price: $1,769Market Cap: $21.68 billion
Exchange: NYSE
The Texas Pacific Land Corporation is a real estate operating company that owns more than 880,000 acres in 20 West Texas counties. It is among the largest private landowners in Texas.
The company earns most of its revenue from royalties and lease payments on its mineral rights, as well as from land sales and other real estate activities. In 2023, it reported annual revenue of about $743 million.
It has delivered excellent results in the last decade — its stock went from $20 in 2013 to $1,769 in 2024.
In 2025, Texas Pacific Land announced the completion of a $500 million revolving credit facility, providing the company with greater financial flexibility to fund capital expenditures, acquisitions, and growth initiatives — a notable change from its previously minimal-debt approach.
15. Graham Holdings Company
52-Week High Stock Price: $1,012Market Cap: $4.42 billion
Exchange: NYSE
The Graham Holdings Company is a US-based holding conglomerate that owns or has majority stakes in various newspapers, cable television, and websites. In 2013, the company sold its flagship newspaper, The Washington Post, to Nash Holdings, owned by Jeff Bezos, for $250 million.
Its other prized assets include Kaplan Inc. and The Slate Group, which runs the popular Slate Magazine. Through its media arm, Graham Holdings controls six television stations operating in six US states.
The company is actively reshaping its portfolio by divesting less-strategic digital and lifestyle web operations (WGB) and acquiring complementary industrial assets. Its education and healthcare segments are driving growth, while traditional segments are experiencing more challenging conditions.
14. First Citizens BancShares Inc (Class A)
52-Week High Stock Price: $2412 (Class A)Market Cap: $23.5 billion
Exchange: NASDAQ
First Citizens BancShares is a financial holding company with operations primarily in the Southeastern United States. It operates more than 550 branches in 23 states.
The company has $200 billion worth of total assets. In FY 2025, its annual revenue stood at $14.6 billion, with a gross profit of $9.5 billion.
In terms of market performance, the company’s stock price surged from $200 in 2013 to $2,400 in 2024. By November 2024, it hit an all-time high of $2,412.92.
13. MRF
Market Cap: $7.52 billion
Exchange: NSE (India)
MRF, short for Madras Rubber Factory Limited, is India’s largest multinational tire manufacturer, which also produces conveyor belts, paints, tubes, and toys.
The company was started as a toy balloon manufacturer in 1946 at Tiruvottiyur, Chennai, before entering the tread rubber industry in 1952. It didn’t enter the Nylon tire manufacturing business until 1973.
MRF has never split its shares or issued a bonus, which is why the value of a single share is so high. It reached its all-time high in October 2025.
12. Markel Group
Markel Building in Virginia
Market Cap: $24.9 billion
Exchange: NYSE
Markel Group is a US-based holding company engaged in insurance and investment activities worldwide. It went public in 1986, trading at $8.33 per share, valuing the company at $15 million.
Since its inception, Markel Co. has acquired multiple companies in different sectors through its investment arm. Globally, it has more than 76 offices in over 18 nations. It entered the Fortune 500 for the first time in 2016.
The Group actively allocates capital through share repurchases and, as of 2025, has reduced its share count to around 12.6 million.
11. Mettler-Toledo International
A Teldo Scale
Market Cap: $29.17 billion
Exchange: NYSE
Mettler Toledo specializes in manufacturing different types of analytical and scientific instruments. It’s one of the largest suppliers of weighing instruments used in industrial complexes, labs, and retail stores.
The company holds 598 patents worldwide, with 335 granted and over 86% currently active. Most of its sales come from European and American markets. The operations are organized into five segments: US Operations, Swiss Operations, Western European Operations, Chinese Operations, and Other.
In FY 2025, the company generated $3.86 billion in annual revenue and $830 million in net income. Their stock price rose from $250 in 2014 to an all-time high of $1700 in 2021 (adjusted for splits).
10. MercadoLibre
52-Week High Stock Price: $2,645MercadoLibre has been compounding the intrinsic value per share:
•Earnings per share has grown to $19.6 (31.80% CAGR)
•Operating cash flow per share has grown to $100.8 (41.38% CAGR)
•Free cash flow per share has grown to $90.8 (42.77% CAGR) pic.twitter.com/b32Fpcx3zb— Invest In Assets (@InvestInAssets) April 8, 2024
Market Cap: $118 billion
Exchange: NASDAQ
MercadoLibre, often called the “Amazon of Latin America,” is a top e-commerce and fintech company in the region.
In addition to being an online marketplace, it provides online payment solutions and digital wallet services. It serves as a payment processor for transactions on the MercadoLibre marketplace and beyond.
According to Semrush, mercadolibre.com.mx receives over 156 million monthly visitors, with an average session lasting about 12 minutes and 43 seconds.
In 2023, they recorded $14.4 billion in annual revenue and $7.2 billion in annual gross profit. That same year, Time magazine recognized them as one of the world’s 100 most influential companies.
In FY 2025, the company’s revenue rose to $24 billion, reflecting a 35.81% year-over-year increase, while net income climbed to $2.05 billion, up 46.75% from the previous year.
9. White Mountains Insurance Group
52-Week High Stock Price: $2,023Market Cap: $4.84 billion
Exchange: NYSE
Headquartered in Hamilton, Bermuda, White Mountains Insurance Group is a financial services holding company that owns or has significant stakes in brokerages, life insurers, and reinsurance companies. It also has interests in tech companies that engage in the insurance business.
According to its official website, the group holds total assets of about $12.0 billion, with common shareholders’ equity of $4.6 billion and a book value per share of $1,804.
8. Hermes International SCA
Market Cap: $263.38 billion
Exchange: EPA (Paris)
Hermes International SCA is a French luxury goods manufacturer and retailer, famous for leather goods, ready-to-wear fashion, perfumes, accessories, and other luxury items. Some of its iconic products include the Birkin and Kelly handbags, the H belt buckle, and the silk scarves.
Founded in 1837 by Thierry Hermès, the company has a rich heritage spanning over 185 years. It remained a family-owned company throughout its history.
The Hermès family owns about 65% of the share capital and is actively involved in its management.
In 2024, Hermes International reported an annual revenue of $16 billion, a 13% increase at current exchange rates compared to the previous year. They hold total assets worth $26.77 billion.
7. Broadcom
52-Week High Stock Price: $386.48 (after stock split)OpenAI and Broadcom will co-develop systems that include accelerators and Ethernet solutions from Broadcom for scale-up and scale-out.
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— Broadcom (@Broadcom) October 13, 2025
Market Cap: $1.75 trillion
Exchange: NASDAQ
Broadcom designs, develops, and supplies a range of semiconductor and infrastructure software solutions. About 79% of their revenue comes from semiconductor-based products, while 21% comes from their infrastructure software products and services.
The company has pursued an aggressive acquisition strategy to expand its product offerings and market reach. Key acquisitions include Avago Technologies, Symantec Enterprise Security Business, and CA Technologies. In 2023, they acquired VMware (a cloud computing and virtualization technology company) for $69 billion.
In that same year, they generated $35.8 billion in annual revenue and $24.6 billion in gross profit, marking increases of 7.8% and 11.7%, respectively, compared to 2022. Over the past five years, the company’s stock price has nearly septupled, rising from $250 in 2019 to $1400 in 2024.
In July 2024, Broadcom completed a 10-for-1 stock split, which made the stock more accessible to a wider range of investors by lowering the per-share price.
In FY 2025, the company recorded $59.92 billion in revenue, marking an impressive 28% YoY increase. Its gross profit rose to $40.04 billion, up 33.87% from the previous year.
6. AutoZone
52-Week High Stock Price: $4,388I often think of Lowe’s stock as a cross between Home Depot and AutoZone. Like Home Depot, they provide high dividend growth. Like AutoZone, they buy back a large number of shares each year. And to top it all off, they’re a dividend king with 60 years of increases. $LOW pic.twitter.com/WunZunf8Wi
— Durable Value Creators (@DurableCreators) February 9, 2023
Market Cap: $61.12 billion
Exchange: NYSE
AutoZone is the largest retailer of auto parts in the United States, ahead of its domestic competitor Advance Auto Parts. In addition to its more than 6,000 retail outlets in the United States, the company has divisions in Puerto Rico, Mexico, and Brazil.
AutoZone’s stock has consistently performed well over the past 30 years, with minimal downturns. It has generated immense wealth for its long-term investors, rising from $7 in 1991 to $4,388 in 2025.
5. The Booking Holdings
52-Week High Stock Price: $5,839Excited to share that @Bookingcom is one of the first apps available in ChatGPT, which makes it even easier for travelers to explore the wide range of hotels, homes and unique places to stay on https://t.co/rJ0Ip1pYii. https://t.co/ht59luzAFm
— Booking Holdings (@BookingHoldings) October 8, 2025
Market Cap: $163.67 billion
Exchange: NASDAQ
Booking Holdings was launched in 1997 as a single website, Priceline.com, that allows users to buy travel packages at discounted rates. In just two years, in 1999, the company went public, making its founder a big-time billionaire.
In 2013, the company bought Kayak.com, a travel metasearch engine, for $1.8 billion, then changed its name to Priceline Group. Its most significant acquisition to date, however, came a year later when it bought OpenTable, an online restaurant reservation company, for $2.6 billion.
Furthermore, the company acquired Momondo Group, Cheapflights, and Rentalcars.com to expand its business. Its name was finally changed to Booking Holdings in 2018.
According to Semrush, booking.com attracts approximately 536 million visits per month, with an average duration of 12 minutes and 52 seconds. In 2023, users booked over 1 billion room nights of accommodation, 74 million rental car days, and 36 million airplane tickets through websites and apps owned by Booking Holdings.
In 2024, the company reported more than $8 billion in adjusted EBITDA and a record 83 million rental car bookings.
4. Seaboard Corporation
Market Cap: $3.23 billion
Exchange: NYSE
Seaboard Corporation is a multinational conglomerate specializing in agribusiness and transportation. The company has interests in pork and sugar production, commodity trading, cargo shipping, and the power sector.
From 2009 to 2013, the company’s total sales nearly doubled from $3.6 billion to $6.6 billion. The stock reached its all-time high in March 2015, hitting $4,600 for the first time. However, it hasn’t surpassed that mark since then.
As of 2025, the company’s annual revenue stood at $9.81 billion, with an annual income of $397 million.
3. NVR Inc
Market Cap: $20.63 billion
Exchange: NYSE
One of the most expensive stocks in the world, NVR, Inc., is a US-based construction and mortgage company established in 1980 and went public in 1993. The company has three direct subsidiaries —NVHomes, Rymarc Homes, and Heartland Homes — through which it conducts all its business.
NVR’s primary focus is on the Eastern markets, mostly for single-family homes, townhomes, and condominiums.
In 2017, it outperformed major indices, with its stock price more than doubling from $1,700 in January 2017 to $3,508 by December 29. In 2024, the stock price reached an all-time high of $9,527.85.
2. Lindt & Sprüngli AG
An issued stock of the Chocoladefabrik Lindt & Sprüngli AG in 1930
Market Cap: $35.25 billion
Exchange: SWX (Switzerland)
Lindt & Sprüngli is a Swiss multinational confectionery company that now owns five of the biggest chocolate-producing establishments in the world, including Russell Stover Candies, maker of the popular Whitman’s Chocolate, which was acquired for about $1.5 billion in 2014.
Ranked among the top ten chocolate producers worldwide alongside Mars Inc., Nestlé, and Hershey Co., Lindt & Sprüngli reported impressive organic growth, achieving $6.79 billion in annual sales in 2024, a 7.8% sales increase from the previous year.
The company’s stock has demonstrated consistent performance over the last three decades, climbing from $320 in 1995 to $17,000 in 2025.
1. Berkshire Hathaway
Berkshire routinely features Coca-Cola products
Market Cap: $1 trillion+
Industry: Insurance and holding company
Berkshire Hathaway is the most expensive stock in the world. At one of the company’s annual shareholder meetings, Warren Buffett, its chairman, admitted that buying Berkshire Hathaway back in 1964 was one of the biggest mistakes of his investing career.
He explained that if he had invested that money directly in the insurance business instead of buying more Berkshire shares, it would likely have earned higher profits.
But here we are: Berkshire Hathaway now owns more than 60 companies in various sectors and holds majority stakes in several big corporations, including Coca-Cola Company, BOA (Bank of America), and Apple. It is currently among the 11 largest publicly traded companies (by market capitalization) in the world.
In FY 2025, Berkshire Hathaway reported annual revenue of $370.1 billion and a gross profit of $290.8 billion. The company’s total assets grew 4.9% year-over-year, reaching $1.16 trillion.
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