The year has just begun, and entrepreneur and CEO of Tesla and SpaceX Elon Musk is now richer by nearly $ 33 billion. This is shown by the calculations of the American magazine Forbes.
By the end of January 3, the total fortune of the American billionaire has already reached the level of 304.2 billion dollars. That brings him back above the $ 300 billion threshold he briefly crossed for the first time in November.
Musk is convincingly at the top of the list of the richest people in the world, and his difference with the second – the French industrialist and founder of the Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy business empire Bernard Arnault, is estimated at about 103.6 billion dollars.
Only in third place remains the former №1 in global wealth Jeff Bezos, who last year left the post of CEO of global online retailer Amazon.
As usual, Musk should be thankful for this growth in his own wealth of shares in the electric car company Tesla. On Sunday, they announced that in 2021 they had delivered more than 936,000 electric cars to their new owners, exceeding all analysts’ estimates.
This statement led to a quick reaction among investors and on Monday Tesla shares jumped more than 13% in the markets.
Forbes notes that the news of exceeded sales forecasts has outweighed other information coming from the company in recent days. On December 30, it became clear that Tesla had withdrawn more than 475,000 electric vehicles manufactured between 2014 and 2021 due to security risks.
However, this information does not seem to have caused as much concern as some analysts have suggested, and the company’s market value has again crossed the $ 1 trillion mark.
However, Musk, who is Tesla’s chief executive and owns about 15.6% of its shares, continues to sell small chunks of his ownership of the company.
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At the end of December, he ended the year by unloading nearly 3 million shares on the open market to cover his taxes. Musk announced on Twitter in December that he would pay about $ 11 billion to the US government in taxes for 2021, which could make him one of the largest individual taxpayers in US history.
He sold a total of 15.7 million shares of Tesla worth more than $ 16 billion during the year.
However, Musk’s condition continues to increase. It rose by more than $ 200 billion in 2020 and 2021, adding $ 116 billion to his fortune last year alone, setting a record for the billionaire’s biggest one-year profit ever recorded by Forbes magazine.
Musk can hope for another potential contingency later this month, when Tesla is due to report fourth-quarter earnings.
If the company achieves certain operational goals, as analysts often expect, Musk will gain millions of lucrative stock options that could back billions of dollars.
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