Zuckerberg’s wealth drops after Meta stock plunge

Mark Zuckerberg dropped to fifth on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index after Meta’s shares fell 11%, the biggest single-day decline since 2022.

Meta announced plans to raise US$30 billion through a bond sale to fund AI research, and its stock price slid following the news, cutting Zuckerberg’s net worth to US$235.2 billion.

Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Alphabet’s Larry Page both surpassed Zuckerberg on the list, a shift not seen since October 2023.

Alphabet’s shares rose 2.5% after it reported higher-than-expected revenue, driven by demand for cloud and AI services.

Zuckerberg’s wealth fell by US$29.2 billion in one day, marking the fourth-largest single-day drop tracked by Bloomberg’s index.

Meta’s stock had climbed 28% earlier this year, but concerns about rising AI spending led at least two analysts to downgrade the stock.

🔗 Source: Bloomberg

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The bonds carry an A+ rating from Standard & Poor’s (S&P), mature in 2049, and price at about 225 basis points (2.25 percentage points) over U.S. Treasuries 1.
This differs from Meta’s $25 billion general corporate bond sale, which sits on the balance sheet 1 2. The SPV model gives hyperscalers (the largest cloud and data center operators) a way to fund AI buildouts without denting credit ratings 1 2.

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Meta’s 2025 value chain (supply chain) emissions reduction Request for Proposals (RFP) targets specific sectors 3. Detailed requirements sit behind a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA), which gives infrastructure vendors a direct path to match bids with its sustainability goals 3.
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