On Thursday, April 25, Elon Musk’s net worth soared by $18.2 billion after Tesla Inc. shares recorded their highest day-to-day rally within months—nearly 10 percent increase.
Globally, as per the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, that makes Musk’s worth $335 billion, making him among the world’s richest.
Tesla shares were priced at $284.95 yesterday, rising by 9.8 percent due to better-than-expected quarterly earnings and a rush of analyst upgrades restoring investor confidence. However, overall for Musk, wealth for the year 2025 fell about $97.7 billion down, 22.6 percent lower than earlier highs back in January.
Also, his artificial intelligence vehicle-holding company, xAI Holdings, is rumored to be in negotiations to raise roughly $20 billion worth of new investment. According to Bloomberg, the funds will be used to expand xAI and strengthen X (previously Twitter), which Musk took private in 2022. Part of it will service the high debt generated from the Twitter buyout.
If all goes well, xAI’s fundraising could count the second largest ever recorded for a startup, with only OpenAI’s record $40 billion round earlier this year beating it, as PitchBook measures it.
Well if there’s any fact that’s irrefutable, then it definitely would be that Tesla does constitute Musks most bright fortunes. This man virtually owns about 13 percent in shares of Tesla publicly traded-both held and tied to stock options based on a 2018 compensation plan amounting to about 304 million. A Delaware court ruling, however, recently decided to void the whole deal. Yet, as it stands now, stock options continue factored in the wealth estimates pending an appeal still in progress.
This financial turn seems poised to happen as Musk maneuvers complex management positions, perhaps even more increasingly than before, across Tesla, SpaceX, X, and xAI, with considerable legal and corporate headwinds populating the landscape ahead.
