How Much You’d Have If 15 Years Ago You Invested $100 in Each of These 11 Companies Owned by Top Billionaires

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The total combined wealth of the 20 wealthiest billionaires hovers at around $3.8 trillion, according to Visual Capitalist. That’s more than the gross domestic product of France.

Many of these billionaires have made their fortune through partial (or complete) ownership of select companies in fields like tech, artificial intelligence (AI) and real estate. And while you can’t go back in time and make the same investment decisions they did, you might’ve wondered where your own net worth would be sitting right now if you could.

Using data from Forbes, GOBankingRates determined the main companies the world’s wealthiest folk have invested in. We then used the data to figure out what a $100 investment in each of these companies 15 years ago would be today — and whether or not it would’ve been a smart investment.

These are the results.

Main Companies Owned by the 10 Richest Billionaires

According to Forbes, the following are the world’s wealthiest people and their primary company holdings.

• Elon Musk ($777.4 billion net worth): Tesla, SpaceX, xAI
• Larry Page ($276 billion net worth): Alphabet/Google
• Sergey Brin ($254.6 billion net worth): Alphabet/Google
• Jeff Bezos ($250.4 billion net worth): Amazon
• Mark Zuckerberg ($245.8 billion net worth): Facebook/Meta
• Larry Ellison ($211.9 billion net worth): Oracle
• Berard Arnault and family ($169.4 billion net worth): Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy (LVMH), Agache, Christian Dior
• Jensen Huang ($166.9 billion net worth): Nvidia
• Amancio Ortega ($145.3 billion net worth): Inditex/Zara
• Warren Buffett  ($142 billion net worth): Berkshire Hathaway, Inc.

Calculating a $100 Investment Made 15 Years Ago in These Companies

Here’s a rundown of how much you’d have today if you’d invested $100 in each of these companies a decade and a half ago (or as soon as they went public).

Tesla (TSLA)

• Stock value 15 years ago: $1.54
• Stock value today: $435.09
• Number of stocks originally purchased with $100: 64
• Your investment’s worth today: $27,846

SpaceX

• Not publicly traded

xAI

• Not publicly traded

Alphabet/Google (GOOG)

• Stock value 12 years ago (first publicly traded): $27.92
• Stock value today: $339.29
• Number of stocks originally purchased with $100: 3
• Your investment’s worth today: $1,017.87

Amazon (AMZN)

• Stock value 15 years ago: $8.56
• Stock value today: $240.54
• Number of stocks originally purchased with $100: 11
• Your investment’s worth today: $2,645.94

Facebook/Meta Platforms (META)

• Stock value 14 (first publicly traded) years ago: $38.23
• Stock value today: $717.75
• Number of stocks originally purchased with $100: 2
• Your investment’s worth today: $1,435.50

Oracle (ORCL)

• Stock value 15 years ago: $33.47
• Stock value today: $165.37
• Number of stocks originally purchased with $100: 2
• Your investment’s worth today: $330.74

Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton (OTCMKTS: LVMUY)

• Stock value 15 years ago: $30.66
• Stock value today: $129.26
• Number of stocks originally purchased with $100: 3
• Your investment’s worth today: $387.78

Nvidia (NVDA)

• Stock value 15 years ago: 56 cents
• Stock value today: $191.23
• Number of stocks originally purchased with $100: 178
• Your investment’s worth today: $34,039

Inditex (IDEXY)

• Stock value 15 years ago: $3.72
• Stock value today: $16.21
• Number of stocks originally purchased with $100: 26
• Your investment’s worth today: $421.46

Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B)

• Stock value 15 years ago: $81.56
• Stock value today: $479.40
• Number of stocks originally purchased with $100: 1
• Your investment’s worth today: $479.40

Editor’s note: Each stock’s data was sourced from Macrotrends.

This article is for informational purposes only and does not constitute financial advice. Investing involves risk, including the possible loss of principal. Always consider your individual circumstances and consult with a qualified financial advisor before making investment decisions.

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