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Jensen Huang is now worth more than $200 billion, according to Forbes estimates, as shares of Nvidia reached a new record high early Friday, after Morgan Stanley reinstated the firm as a “top pick” investment in the semiconductor sector.
Jensen Huang’s net worth topped $200 billion Friday morning. (Photo by Patrick T. Fallon / AFP) (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)
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Huang is worth an estimated $203.2 billion just after 11:45 a.m. EDT Friday morning, according to Forbes’ real-time billionaire estimates, making him the seventh-richest person in the world.
Huang, president and CEO of Nvidia, has added $3.4 billion to his fortune today as shares of his company surged to a fresh all-time high above $237 per share.
Nvidia’s shares have slightly backtracked since then, but are still up nearly 2% to a price of $235.39 as of 11:45 a.m. EDT.
The stock rally follows Morgan Stanley reinstating Nvidia as its top semiconductor stock earlier in the day, while Bloomberg also credited AI agents like Meta’s Muse driving demand for semiconductors.
“We certainly see NVIDIA as well positioned, with a very undemanding valuation,” Morgan Stanley analyst Joseph Moore wrote following meetings with Huang and Nvidia executives, citing the company’s broad customer base.
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Huang is worth $203.2 billion as of Friday morning, according to Forbes estimates. He cofounded Nvidia in 1993 and owns about 4% of the company’s stock, and he has served as its chief executive and president ever since. Nvidia became the world’s most valuable publicly traded company amid the AI boom, despite briefly being unseated by Apple over the summer. The company was the first to surpass a market capitalization of more than $5 trillion.
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