Elon Musk's Investment Strategy

By Lyle Daly – Updated Oct 31, 2025 at 10:02 PM | Fact-checked by Robin Hartill, CFP

Key Points

Elon Musk invests mainly in his own ventures, avoiding external public stocks.
Musk's key holdings include significant stakes in Tesla and SpaceX.
He recommends buying stocks you believe in and cautions against panic selling.

Elon Musk is, by many metrics, the most successful entrepreneur of modern times. He had a net worth of $484 billion as of October 2025, making him the richest person in the world.

A natural question among investors is where Musk chooses to invest his money. Let's take a look at Elon Musk's investments (and the businesses he starts and acquires), the type of investments he avoids, and what you should know about his strategy.

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Elon Musk on stage by the Tesla Roadster. — Image source: Tesla.

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Publicly Traded Company

A company that issues shares that are publicly traded, meaning the shares are available for anyone to buy and sell on the stock market.

Even when Musk took a 9.2% stake in social media platform Twitter in April 2022, his ultimate goal was to buy the company and take it private. He rejected a seat on Twitter's board of directors for that reason. After ample back-and-forth, the deal went through in late October 2022, with Musk buying Twitter for $44 billion. He rebranded Twitter as X in 2023.

Musk's investments are highly concentrated in his entrepreneurial endeavors. The first category consists of publicly traded stock investments, and the second includes private companies that he founded and in which he continues to hold an investment. With that in mind, here's a breakdown of what we know about Musk's investments.

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Although Elon Musk is very wealthy, most of his net worth is tied up in a single stock (Tesla) and private companies that you or I likely cannot invest in. Besides buying Tesla stock, if you want to invest like Elon Musk, becoming an entrepreneur might be the best way to go about emulating his style.

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About the Author

Lyle Daly is a contributing Motley Fool stock market analyst covering information technology and cryptocurrency. Lyle has been a contributor at the financial services company since 2018. His work has been featured on USA Today, Yahoo Finance, MSN, Fox Business, and Nasdaq. Before joining The Motley Fool, he wrote for financial brands including Intuit.

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