埃隆·马斯克现在是世界上第四富有的人

埃隆·马斯克现在是世界上第四富有的人

Elon Musk is worth $96 billion, making him the fourth-richest man in the world, according to Bloomberg. He's about to get a lot richer.

据彭博社报道，埃隆·马斯克身价960亿美元，是全球第四大富豪。他将变得更加富有。

The Tesla CEO takes no regular salary, but in 2018 shareholders approved a pay package that could eventually give him 20.3 million stock options, paid in 12 equal tranches, potentially making him the richest person in the world. Thanks to the tremendous run-up in Tesla shares, Musk has qualified for two blocks of options, which on paper are worth about $2.8 billion each after he pays the exercise price.

特斯拉首席执行官不拿固定工资，但在2018年，股东们批准了一项薪酬方案，最终可能会给他2030万份股票期权，分成12等分支付，有可能让他成为世界上最富有的人。由于特斯拉股价的大幅上涨，马斯克获得了两批期权。在支付了行权价后，这些期权的账面价值约为28亿美元。

Now he's weeks away from qualifying for the third tranche of options, worth an additional $2.8 billion.

现在他距离获得价值28亿美元的第三批期权还有几周的时间。

Musk will be awarded the options as the company hits a series of targets both for financial results and market value. One of the two milestones that must be hit for those options to be exercised is that Tesla (TSLA) shares, which were valued at $372 billion at Monday's close, must maintain a $200 billion average market value over the prior six months, a target it hit over the course of the last five months.

在公司实现财务业绩和市场价值的一系列目标后，马斯克将获得这些期权。要行使这些期权，必须达到的两个里程碑之一是，特斯拉股票在周一收盘时的估值为3720亿美元，必须在前六个月保持2000亿美元的平均市值，这是它在过去五个月里实现的目标。

So even if Tesla shares lose nearly half their current value over the next month, they'd still have a six-month average of $200 billion or greater.

因此，即使特斯拉的股价在下个月缩水近一半，它们六个月的平均市值仍将达到2000亿美元或更多。

The other milestone is based upon Tesla's revenue or profit performance. And if analysts' forecasts are right, Tesla should be able to do that in the current quarter.

另一个里程碑是基于特斯拉的收入或利润表现。如果分析师的预测是正确的，特斯拉应该能够在当前季度做到这一点。

The measure of profits used to judge success must be $4.5 billion over a 12-month period. The company nearly reached that over the 12 months ending in June, when it earned $4.4 billion. Its third-quarter forecast is for earnings of $1.4 billion, up about a third from what it earned on that basis a year ago.

用来衡量成功与否的标准必须是在12个月内达到45亿美元。在截至6月的12个月里，该公司几乎达到了这个目标，当时它的收入为44亿美元。该公司第三季度的盈利预期为14亿美元，较上年同期增长约三分之一。

If he does get the options, Musk won't actually own the shares. He has yet to exercise any of the options he received this year or most of what he was awarded in prior years (He did not not receive any options in 2018 or 2019.) Typically, options are exercised only when the investor holding them is ready to sell the shares, or if they are due to expire.

即使马斯克获得了期权，他也不会真正拥有股份。他还没有行使今年获得的任何期权，也没有行使之前几年获得的大部分期权(他在2018年或2019年没有获得任何期权)。通常情况下，只有当持有期权的投资者准备出售股票，或者期权将到期时，期权才会被执行。

No matter how many options Musk gets this year, they will be only a fraction of his current Tesla stockholdings.

不管马斯克今年获得了多少期权，它们都只是他目前持有的特斯拉股票的一小部分。

He owns 34 million shares of the stock, a stake equal to about 18% of the company, which is valued $68 billion.

他持有该公司3,400万股股票，相当于公司18%的股份，价值680亿美元。

Musk qualified in May for the first tranche of options under his current pay package. At that time the options were worth about $770 million. He qualified for the second earlier this month when the company's stock price lifted the value of that block of options to $2.1 billion.

马斯克今年5月获得了目前薪酬方案下的第一批期权。当时期权价值约7.7亿美元。本月早些时候，当该公司股价将该期权的价值提升至21亿美元时，他获得了第二批资格。

As the stock continues to rise, so does the potential value of the options, which is why the two earlier blocks of options are now worth a total of $5.6 billion, while the next block would be worth $2.8 billion, at current prices.

随着股价继续上涨，期权的潜在价值也在上升，这就是为什么前两批期权目前价值总计56亿美元，而下一批期权按当前价格计算将价值28亿美元。