Amancio Ortega learned how difficult it is to enter the top 10 of greatest fortunes. Has also learned how easy it is to go out

Amancio Ortega is not having the best welcome to the summer and, for the second consecutive week, it records negative figures in the assessment of its heritage for the stagnation of the price of its main source of income: Inditex.

The Spanish millionaire has lost two positions in the last fifteen days and, with it, he leaves, the least provisionally, the “top 10” of greater fortunes of the planet that Forbes updates in real time.

The difficult thing is not to arrive, it is to stay

At the beginning of 2024, the Millionaire Leones based in La Coruña, became part of the select 100,000 million clubas prelude to sneak between the top 10 of the greatest fortunes in the world. The founder of Inditex had to wait almost a year to finally, ascend until the tenth position in the List of greater fortunes of Forbes.

Since then, Ortega has changed his position to the stock bursatiles caused by the Trump tariff war. However, the veteran investor had remained more or less stable between the eighth and ninth position thanks to the stability they provided Your real estate investments With Pontegadea, which contributed to maintaining its fortune at about 131.8 billion dollars.

However, the assessment of his fortune has not stopped suffer setbacks Since Inditex presented its quarterly accounts. Although the results were positive, with a growth of 1.5%, to 8,247 million euros, the investors of the multinational textile believe that They are not good enough for its low growth.

As a consequence, the firm’s actions initiated a bearish rally dragging in its fall to the fortune of its main shareholder, with 59,294% assigned to their societies put investments (50.010%) and Partler 2006 (9,284%).

Inditex is still decisive for Ortega

To put the fall in context In your quotethe day before the presentation of results, the price of the action closed at 49.21 euros, today the action is quoted at 43.39 euros, its lowest price since April 2025. With this data, the firm led By Marta Ortega It is left 13.73% so far this year.

This progressive fall of this asset has had a direct impact on the assessment of fortune. In the last hours He has registered falls estimated at more than 2.3 billion dollars, placing its fortune at 117.6 billion dollars.

After this fall in the assessment of his heritage, the Spanish millionaire is in the twelfth position behind Michael Dell, which with an estimated heritage of 121.1 billion stands in the eleventh position of the Forbes ranking. However, Ortega is fair ahead of Bill Gates, which with 116.5 billion dollars as a fortune is in the thirteenth position.

The place of Amancio Ortega in the Top 10 of Millionaires of Forbes It occupies it Now Jensen Huang, co -founder and CEO of Nvidia, which amounts to the tenth place with a fortune of 134,500 after adding 5,500 million to the estimation of its heritage.

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