CARY – As North Carolina gains a new billionaire, the fortunes of Jim Goodnight and John Sall, co-founders of international software firm SAS, haven’t changed much over the past year. So says Forbes in its latest billionaires report.
But in “real time” calculations, the news is different.
Calculating the net worth of billionaires based on its metrics and up-to-date information, Forbes calculates as of Wednesday sunrise that Goodnight’s fortune is worth $9.7 billion. And Sall is worth $4.9 billion.
Both figures are up significantly from figures Forbes used to calculate fortunes for ranking in its report which showed Goodnight at $9 billion and Sall at $4.5 billion.
Goodnight’s net worth actually fell from $9.4 billion a year ago; Sall’s was virtually the same.
North Carolina’s new billionaire is Dennis Gillings, the founder and former CEO as well as chair of healthcare giant Quintiles. He launched the firm in 1982, merged it with IMS Health in2016, and began stepping away from the merged firm QuintilesIMS. It is now known as Iqvia.
Forbes calculates Gillings’ fortune at $1.2 billion.
Gillings has over time sold much of his holdings in Iqvia but still owns 5 percent of its shares, according to Forbes.
North Carolina’s other billionaire is Charlotte’s Clemmie Spangler, Jr., at $4.2 billion.
Goodnight ranks No. 172, Sall No. 466, Spangler No. 514 and Gillings No. 1867.
