Magnificent 7 Wealth Wipeout: Here's How Much The 10 Richest People Lost In 2026

The Magnificent Seven stocks are all trading down in 2026, after 2025 saw all seven trade in the green, with six of the seven up by double-digit percentages last year. The declines are having a big impact on the overall stock market and the wealth of the world's richest people.

Top 10 Billionaires See Wealth Drop in 2026

The 10 richest people in the world added $578.64 billion to their wealth in 2025. In 2024, the top 10 richest people added $518 billion to their wealth.

More than one trillion dollars has been added to the wealth of the top 10 richest people in the world over the last two years.

With 2026 nearly two months over, the top 10 richest have a long way to go to keep up with the trends of the last two years, with their combined wealth currently down $45.6 billion year-to-date.

Here are the current 10 richest people in the world, as ranked by Bloomberg, with their year-to-date gains or losses:

1. Elon Musk: $672 billion, +$52.7 billion year-to-date
2. Larry Page: $262 billion, -$7.3 billion
3. Sergey Brin: $243 billion, -$6.7 billion
4. Jeff Bezos: $231 billion, -$22.7 billion
5. Mark Zuckerberg: $228 billion, -$5.7 billion
6. Larry Ellison: $208 billion, -$39.0 billion
7. Bernard Arnault: $178 billion, -$30.0 billion
8. Jensen Huang: $156 billion, +$1.2 billion
9. Jim Walton: $151 billion, +$14.6 billion
10. Warren Buffett: $149 billion, -$2.7 billion

Many of the names on the list have been impacted by Magnificent Seven stocks trading lower in 2026. Musk (Tesla), Page (Alphabet), Brin (Alphabet), Bezos (Amazon), Zuckerberg (Meta) and Huang (Nvidia) are all founders or CEOs of a Magnificent Seven company and hold stakes in the companies.

Here are the current year-to-date losses for the Magnificent Seven stocks

• Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL): -2.9%
• Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN): -10.3%
• Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL): -4.5%
• Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META): -1.4%
• Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT): -15.4%
• NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA): -1.5%
• Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA): -7.5%

Outside of the Magnificent Seven stocks, losses for Oracle (NYSE:ORCL), LVMH (OTC:LVMUY) and Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK) have taken the wealth of Ellison, Arnault and Buffett lower.

The only gainers year-to-date are Musk, Huang and Walton. Musk's wealth is up in 2026 due to the rising valuation of his non-Tesla companies with SpaceX and xAI recently merging. Walton and several other Walmart heirs are moving up the billionaires list with WMT stock up 14.1% year-to-date in 2026.

What's Next for Magnificent Seven Stocks

The Magnificent Seven stocks continue to be among the most tracked stocks for investors and several big names are changing their exposure to some of the seven components.

Berkshire Hathaway's latest 13F filing showed that the conglomerate sold 77% of its Amazon stake in the fourth quarter.

Meanwhile, Bill Ackman's Pershing Square Capital took a new stake in Meta shares in the fourth quarter, while also increasing its Amazon exposure by 65%. Pershing Square sold Alphabet shares, both Class A and Class C in the fourth quarter.

Amazon was the worst-performing Magnificent Seven stock in 2025, with a gain of 4.8%, while Alphabet was the top gainer, with a 65.2% gain in 2025.

Freedom Capital Markets Chief Market Strategist Jay Woods previously told Benzinga in September 2025 that Alphabet and Tesla were the Magnificent Seven stocks to watch in the fourth quarter and going forward.

"I think Tesla's a story to watch in 2026," Woods previously said.

Roundhill CEO Dave Mazza, who leads the company with the Roundhill Magnificent Seven ETF (BATS:MAGS), previously told Benzinga that Alphabet stood out with the best setup into 2026. Mazza said Apple and Microsoft also had "interesting" setups for 2026.

"Neither company has lost strategic relevance, so the risk-reward is starting to look better," Mazza said.

The Magnificent Seven stocks will likely continue to be popular with investors and could impact the wealth of the richest people throughout 2026.

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