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Elon Musk, the founder of the manufacturer of Tesla high-end electric vehicles, became the richest man in the world on Thursday due to the growth of his company’s shares on the stock market, according to Bloomberg’s calculations.
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, the founder Amazon, who was the richest man in the world since 2017, according to the agency that has a ranking of billionaires.
Tesla’s value was more than seven times higher in value in 2020 and continued to grow Wall Street On Thursday, bringing the fortune of this South African engineer $ 188.5 billion shortly after opening the bag, $ 1.5 billion above those accumulated by Bezos.
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Wednesday adze for the first time it exceeded $ 700 billion in market capitalization at the end of the year Wall Street with a nearly 3% increase in its shares to $ 755.98.
On Thursday morning, the stock was close to USD 800, up 5.7%.
However, the group’s sales are still very far from those of traditional vehicle manufacturers: Tesla sold 499,550 vehicles in 2020, far from Volkswagen’s 11 million in 2019.
But Tesla is benefiting from investor optimism for the future of electric vehicles and the fact that it has made money in five consecutive quarters, which helped it enter the prestigious S&P 500 index in December.
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