Texas, United States.
Elon Musk, the founder of the state-of-the-art electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla, became this Thursday the richest man from world thanks to the increase of his company’s shares on the stock market, according to the calculations Bloomberg News.
With the rise of titles Tesla on the market, and with 18% ownership of the company, the 49-year-old businessman who also runs SpaceX thus exceeds Jeff Bezos, founder Amazon, which has been since 2017 the richest man in the world.
Tesla stocked more than seven times its value in 2020 and continued to climb Wall Street on Thursday, bringing fortune of this engineer of affected South African origin $ 188.5 billion shortly after the opening of the stock market, with 1,500 million dollars more than the accumulated by Bezos.
Wednesday adze for the first time it exceeded 700,000 million composing dollars the stock market closed at the close of the New York Stock Exchange, with an increase of almost 3% of its shares to $ 755.98.
On Thursday morning, the title was reached $ 800, with an increase of 5.7%.
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However, the group’s sales are still very far from those of traditional producers of vehicles: Tesla sold 499,550 vehicles in 2020, down from 11 million Volkswagen in 2019.
But adze benefits from the optimism of investors for the future of electric vehicles and the fact that it has achieved to earn money in five consecutive quarters, which helped it enter the prestigious S&P 500 index in December.