By Ty Roush
Publication Date: 2026-05-11 17:27:00
Topline
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang became the world’s seventh-richest person on Monday, overtaking Dell founder Michael Dell as Nvidia rallied toward another record, bringing Huang’s fortune close to $200 billion for the first time.
Shares of the world’s largest company approached another record.
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Key Facts
Forbes’ Real-Time Billionaires List estimates Huang’s net worth at $191.5 billion as of Monday afternoon, adding $5.6 billion on the day, ranking Nvidia’s chief executive just ahead of Dell, whose fortune dropped $2.9 billion to $191.2 billion.
Huang holds roughly 3% of Nvidia, whose shares rose 2.4%, while shares of Dell—whose founder holds about a 40% stake—declined 5.5%.
The intraday movement would pace a record close for Nvidia, surpassing an earlier all-time high of $216.61, and put its market cap at an all-time record high for publicly traded companies: more than $5.3 trillion.
Nvidia also paces a four-day winning streak that has added about $550 billion to the company’s market capitalization (only 18 U.S. companies have a market cap of $550 billion or more as of Monday).
The latest advancement for Nvidia’s stock comes after Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan shared a photo of himself with Huang in a post on X, writing that Intel and Nvidia were collaborating on “exciting new products.”
Big Number
$5.36 trillion. That’s Nvidia’s market value as of Monday afternoon, ranking well ahead of Alphabet ($4.7 trillion) as the world’s largest…
