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Tim Cook Net Worth (2026)
Tim Cook is Chief Executive Officer of Apple (AAPL). Most of a public-company CEO’s on-paper wealth is their stake in that company — anchored here on the number you can verify.
ESTIMATED NET WORTH
$2.4 billion
Source: Forbes, 2025*
Of that, we can independently verify $1.1B: 3,280,418 AAPL shares in their latest Form 4 (SEC ↗). The rest is the third-party estimate.
WHAT WE KNOW · FROM FILINGS
$1.1B
3,280,418 AAPL shares (Form 4, 2026-04-02) × $333.26. Verify on SEC ↗
WHAT WE ESTIMATE
varies
Past cash compensation, sold shares, real estate, and other public holdings — estimable from records, but not exact.
WHAT CAN’T BE KNOWN
private
Private company stakes, trusts, cash, debts, and undisclosed assets. Anyone publishing these as a single number is guessing.
At a glance
| Company | Apple (AAPL) |
| Title | Chief Executive Officer |
| Verified stake | $1.1B |
| Shares owned | 3,280,418 |
| Latest total pay | $75M breakdown → |
| Age | ~66 |
HOW THIS IS CALCULATED
We take the shares Tim Cook reports owning in their most recent SEC Form 4 and multiply by the latest share price. That gives a stake value you can check against the filing itself. Everything beyond that stake — real estate, private holdings, cash, past compensation — is estimated or simply not public, and we say so rather than roll it into one number.
BIOGRAPHY
Tim Cook was born in Mobile, Alabama, in 1960 and grew up in the small town of Robertsdale, the son of a shipyard worker and a pharmacy employee. It was a working-class Gulf Coast childhood, and Cook has said watching a cross being burned near a Black family’s home as a boy shaped his sense of fairness. He was the salutatorian of his high school class.
He studied industrial engineering at Auburn University and later earned an MBA from Duke. His early career ran through IBM, where he spent 12 years, and then operations roles at Intelligent Electronics and Compaq, sharpening the manufacturing and logistics expertise that would define him. Steve Jobs recruited him to Apple in 1998.
Cook rebuilt Apple’s supply chain into the tightest in the industry, the quiet machinery behind the iPhone’s scale. He ran daily operations as chief operating officer, stood in during Jobs’s medical leaves, and became chief executive in August 2011, weeks before Jobs died. Apple grew from roughly a 350 billion dollar company into the first worth 3 trillion on his watch.
Cook owns a modest slice of Apple, built from years of stock grants rather than a founder’s stake. His wealth is large by any normal measure yet tiny against the company he runs, which is the honest distinction this page keeps.
Born 1960 · Auburn University (BS); Duke University (MBA)
CAREER
NOTABLE
- Signed the Giving Pledge and has said he intends to give away essentially all his wealth.
- Came out as gay in 2014, the first chief executive of a Fortune 500 company to do so publicly.
COMPENSATION HISTORY · from SEC proxy statements
| Fiscal year | Total pay |
|---|---|
| 2024 | $75M |
| 2023 | $63M |
| 2022 | $99M |
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*Estimated net worth is a third-party figure from Forbes (2025), not our own calculation; it is an estimate that changes with the market. The stake value is filing-derived and verifiable; any broader “net worth” is an estimate. Photo: Tessa Bury, CC BY 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons). Share counts are the latest reported on SEC filings and change as the executive trades; the price is the last close, so the stake value moves with the market. This is not an official or complete accounting of anyone’s wealth. Educational only — not investment advice.
