In a slow-motion race of two retail behemoths, Amazon's trump card was its lucrative cloud-computing business.

The shuffle underscores the rivalry between the two retailers, particularly as Walmart expands its advertising and third-party marketplace businesses.

Amazon dethroned Walmart as the world's top company based on their respective sales in 2025 after 13 years of the Bentonville, Arkansas, company surpassing its competition.

For the first time since 2009, though, Walmart's reign as the highest-revenue-generating company on the market has ended. In its fiscal year 2026 (ended Jan. 31), Walmart brought in $713.2 billion in ...

New York (CNN) — Amazon has surpassed Walmart as the world’s largest company, measured by sales, breaking Walmart’s 13-year streak at the top of the list. Amazon posted $717 billion in sales in 2025.

Amazon (AMZN) has officially passed Walmart (WMT) to become the largest company in the world by annual sales. It is a milestone that would have seemed far-fetched not long ago, and one that tells a ...

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Diversified ecommerce pioneer Amazon has surpassed Walmart as the largest company in the world, based on annual revenues for the most recent fiscal year. Walmart on Thursday reported $713.2 billion in ...

Amazon.com Inc. has officially dethroned Walmart Inc. as the biggest global company by revenue, a milestone attesting to the massive scale the e-commerce and cloud-computing giant has achieved since ...