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Elon Musk, founder of the manufacturer of high-end electric vehicles Tesla, became the richest man in the world on Thursday thanks to the rise in his company’s stock in the stock market, according to calculations by the Bloomberg bureau.
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, who has been the richest man in the world since 2017, according to the agency that has a ranking of billionaires.
Tesla stock more than seven times higher in value in 2020 and continued to rise Wall Street Thursday brings the fortune of this South African-born engineer to $ 188.5 billion shortly after opening the bag, $ 1.5 billion above the ones collected by Bezos.
By how much did Tesla beat Amazon?
On Wednesday Tesla for the first time more than $ 700 billion in market cap at the end of the New York Stock Exchange with an increase of nearly 3% of its shares to $ 755.98.
Thursday morning, the stock was close to $ 800, up 5.7%.
However, the group’s sales are still far from those of traditional car manufacturers: Tesla sold 499,550 vehicles in 2020, far from Volkswagen’s 11 million in 2019.
But Tesla is taking advantage of investors’ optimism about the future of electric vehicles and the fact that it made money in five consecutive quarters, hitting the prestigious S&P 500 index in December.
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