Finding companies that have transformed a simple $1,000 investment into $1 million is rare. That growth requires an investment to increase by 999 times. So, if a company goes public at a $1 billion valuation, it needs to be worth $1 trillion now.

The companies that fit this list are often older, as it takes time to put up these returns. But investors can learn many lessons from the behemoths that have achieved this feat and use them to find the next stock that could turn $1,000 into $1 million.

The three stocks I'll be focussing on that have achieved this feat are Apple (NASDAQ AAPL), (NASDAQ: MSFT), and Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN). These three are gigantic trillion-dollar companies today, but they weren't always that large.

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