Since this decade began, Wall Street's major stock indexes have oscillated between bear and bull markets in successive years. When volatility arises, investors have a tendency to seek out the safety of the market's top-performing businesses. Over the past year, the "Magnificent Seven" have fit the bill.

Aside from sporting well-defined competitive advantages, these seven components have handily outperformed the benchmark S&P 500 over the trailing decade. Currently, all but one of the Magnificent Seven members have a trillion-dollar market cap. The all-important question is: Which companies are next to join the exclusive trillion-dollar club?

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