In Graphics: Inside Elon Musk’s wealth surge

With a sharp 20% jump in SpaceX’s stock price on Monday, Elon Musk’s net worth rose even further to $1.3 trillion, shows Forbes data.

The newly minted trillionaire’s net worth rose by $164.8 billion in a single day. For most people, that single-day gain isn’t even how much they have made in a lifetime.

For context, only eight people are worth more than that; legendary investor Warren Buffett is worth $146 billion.


In September 2025, Musk briefly lost his title of the world’s wealthiest person to Larry Ellison, when his net worth was still short of $400 billion.

But since then, Musk’s notional wealth has zoomed rapidly, way past anyone else’s reach. His rise has led to an unprecedented “inequality” between the two richest persons of the world: now, even the net worth of the 2nd-ranked billionaire is dwarfed by that of Tesla CEO.

ET explains the dramatic scale of growth.