Stocks continue to soar, rich Vietnamese billionaires get richer

(Dan Tri) - VN-Index has continuously increased strongly in recent times, how have the assets of Vietnamese billionaires fluctuated?

Recently, the Vietnamese stock market has had many brilliant sessions of increase. In today's session, the VN-Index exceeded the 1,500 point threshold at many times, however, selling pressure increased at the end of the morning session, causing the index to reverse and decrease.

At the close of trading on July 17, the VN-Index increased by 7.27 points, equivalent to 0.49%, surpassing the 1,497.28 point mark. The VN30-Index also increased by 9.21 points; the HNX-Index increased by 1.68 points; and the UPCoM-Index increased by 0.53 points.

Trading atmosphere on 3 floors was bustling. Liquidity quickly surpassed the 34,000 billion VND mark. The board was filled with green with 171 stocks increasing in price; 57 stocks remaining unchanged and 147 stocks decreasing in price.

The assets of Vietnamese billionaires also fluctuate significantly according to stock price movements.

According to the latest update of Forbes, as of the afternoon of July 18, Vietnam has 5 USD billionaires including Mr. Pham Nhat Vuong - Chairman of Vingroup, Ms. Nguyen Thi Phuong Thao - Chairwoman of Vietjet, Mr. Ho Hung Anh - Chairman of Techcombank, Mr. Tran Dinh Long - Chairman of Hoa Phat and Mr. Nguyen Dang Quang - Chairman of Masan .

Of these, Mr. Pham Nhat Vuong recorded the strongest increase, adding 129 million USD, bringing his total assets to 12.3 billion USD and ranking 215th on the list. Mr. Ho Hung Anh's assets increased by 97 million USD, reaching 2.4 billion USD. Mr. Nguyen Dang Quang also added 59 million USD, bringing his total assets to 1.2 billion USD.

Fluctuations in assets of Vietnamese billionaires (Photo: Forbes).

On the contrary, Ms. Nguyen Thi Phuong Thao's assets decreased by 40 million USD, down to 2.7 billion USD. "Steel King" Tran Dinh Long also decreased by 21 million USD, down to 2.6 billion USD.

To be included in the list, the method chosen by Forbes is to evaluate the size of an individual's assets based on stock prices and daily exchange rates.

In today's trading session, TCB led the group of stocks that positively affected the index. In addition, other bank stocks such as STB, LPB, VPB, MBB, EIB... also appeared in this group.

Foreign investors continued to net sell today. FPT was the stock that foreign investors sold the most with a value of more than 180 billion VND, followed by VCB, GEX, GMD, DXG, CTG... On the other hand, foreign investors net bought stocks such as NVL, HPG, MSN, SSI, HDB...

Source: https://dantri.com.vn/kinh-doanh/co-phieu-lien-tuc-tang-boc-ty-phu-viet-giau-cang-them-giau-20250718172340900.htm