The present invention provides an high beta, high speed operational amplifier output stage (100). The advantages of the operational amplifier output stage over conventional methods disclosed is up to &bgr;2 rather than a single beta. The present invention achieves this using an pre-driver sub-stage (122) having a plurality of translinear loops so that there is no net signal loss to the final sub-stage (123). The output of the disclosed operational amplifier output stage takes the form: &dgr;Io≈&bgr;n*&bgr;p*&dgr;Iin. When used with a localized feedback circuitry, speed performance is increased and bandwidth is extended.