The ranking confirms how Silicon Valley’s tech giants have not only not been harmed by the coronavirus pandemic, but have come out strengthened. The lockdowns that have forced billions of people around the world into their homes have in fact favored them, pushing the shares of their companies to Wall Street, where they are now the undisputed protagonists.
In particular, Amazon – like the entire e-commerce sector – has benefited from the health emergency: online purchases have in fact skyrocketed by making stocks fly. Since the beginning of the year, they have gained 80%, allowing Bezos – who controls 11% of Amazon – to amass unparalleled wealth.
A milestone that the Amazon boss has achieved despite a record divorce, the most expensive in history. To ex-wife MacKenzie Scott, Bezos has in fact transferred 25% of his share of Amazon: a stake that is now worth 63 billion dollars and with which Scott has become overnight the second richest woman in the world. behind the heiress Francoise Bettencourt Meyers, and the thirteenth in general ahead of the patron of Zara Amancio Ortega and Jack Ma of Alibaba.
However, Bezos is not the only one to have taken advantage of the pandemic. Facebook’s above-expected second-quarter results also boosted Mark Zuckerberg’s equity. The situation is different for Elon Musk: braving the virus, the recession and the analysts, Tesla has closed four consecutive quarters in profit and has seen its market capitalization soar to overtake even Toyota and become the queen car manufacturer in the world. A leap that has enriched Musk, in the running for a record fee of $ 2.1 billion.
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