Texas, United States.
Elon Musk, founder of the high-performance electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla, became the richest man of the world thanks to the strong rise of his company’s shares on the stock exchange, according to calculations Bloomberg News.
With the emergence of the titles of Tesla at the stock exchange, and with 18% company ownership, the 49-year-old businessman who also runs it SpaceX, thus exceeds Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, which had been since 2017 richest man in the world.
Tesla shares more than sevenfold in value in 2020 and continued to rise on Wall Street on Thursday, pushing the fortune of this engineer of South African descent $ 188.5 billion shortly after the opening of the stock market, $ 1,500 million more than the accumulated through Bezos.
On Wednesday Tesla more than 700,000 million for the first time compound dollars stock market at the end of the New York Stock Exchange with its shares up nearly 3% to $ 755.98.
Thursday morning hit the title $ 800, with an increase of 5.7%.
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However, the group’s turnover is still far from that of the traditional manufacturers from vehiclesTesla sold 499,550 vehicles in 2020, up from 11 million Volkswagen in 2019.
But Tesla benefits from investors’ optimism about the future of electric vehicles and the fact that it has been achieved to make money in five consecutive quarters, hitting the prestigious S&P 500 Index in December.