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No Number: Forbes Says $923.7 Billion, Bloomberg Says Up to $1.04 Trillion, and the Gap Is One Pile of Shares
In the same week of October 2026, Forbes put Elon Musk's net worth at $923.7 billion, Bloomberg's tracker printed between $971 billion and $1.04 trillion, and the 311 Institute said $843.0 billion. The spread is wider than most billionaires' entire fortunes — and about $100 billion of it is a single bookkeeping decision about 286.4 million restricted Tesla shares.