MacroSnaps27 July 2026
No. 22

Nvidia is worth more than the entire stock market of any country in Europe.

Nvidia
$5.0tn
UK
$4.1tn
France
$3.6tn
Germany
$2.9tn
Switzerland
$2.3tn
Netherlands
$2.0tn

Total stock market value: Nvidia versus the whole stock market of each of Europe's five largest national markets, July 2026. Trillions of dollars. Nvidia outweighs each one on its own.

Why this is happening
  • Nvidia makes the chips that train almost every AI model, so the entire boom runs through one company's order book.
  • Europe's markets are full of banks, carmakers and drugmakers but have almost no large tech, so they have not had a run like this.
  • When one product becomes the pick-and-shovel of a gold rush, its maker can outgrow whole national economies.
The take

A single chipmaker outweighing Britain's or Germany's entire market is not normal. Europe's markets have rallied hard this year and Nvidia still tops each of them one by one, a measure of how much the world has bet that AI pays off.

Source: Company filings, CEIC and exchange data (July 2026)
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