The AI stock rally is minting US millionaires at its fastest clip in 4 years

June 4, 2026

The AI-fueled stock market rally is minting millionaires at its fastest pace in four years.

The finding from consulting firm Capgemini should bring some cheer to Wall Street’s wealth managers.

The number of high-net-worth individuals, or those with $1 million or more in investable assets, rose by 2 million to 25.3 million through 2025. Over a third of them live in the US. Total wealth in the hands of these people rose 8.7% year over year to $98.3 trillion, according to Capgemini’s yearly wealth report.

This marks the fastest growth in the number and wealth of high-net-worth US individuals since 2021. Above all, it’s driven by AI-related stock market gains, per Luca Russignan, global head of the Capgemini Research Institute for Financial Services.

“AI-driven return has been the single most important structural driver of equity performance,” said Russignan.

Globally, stock allocation in these millionaires’ portfolios increased 3 percentage points last year to 25%. In the US, the stock allocation grew 5 percentage points, accounting for 27% of their total portfolio.

The report comes as investors await a string of mega AI IPOs coming down the pike this year. Their sheer size will serve as an unprecedented test of investor enthusiasm for AI.

IPOs for Elon Musk’s SpaceX (SPAX.PVT), which includes AI firm xAI, along with AI model makers Anthropic (ANTH.PVT) and OpenAI (OPAI.PVT), are expected to shatter public listing records. SpaceX revealed Wednesday that it plans to list 555,555,555 shares at $135 per share, raising $75 billion.

At the same time, the stock market’s biggest giants are opening their wallets to fund chipmaking, data centers, and other AI infrastructure. This week, Google parent company Alphabet (GOOGL) raised $85 billion in a massive follow-on equity deal.

“We are definitely in a moment where there’s more greed than there is fear,” David Solomon, CEO of Goldman Sachs, said during a Tuesday interview hosted by the Economic Club of New York. Goldman is serving as a key bank in several of these deals.

Solomon argued there’s enough liquidity and enthusiasm across the stock market to support the mega deals, saying when capital is available and needed he advises clients to “take the capital.” Additionally, gains generated by these deals could create reinforcing “flywheel” events in themselves.

“You’ve got a lot of people that have made a lot of money, and a bunch of these companies, and they’re going to be monetizing and reinvesting that into the system, into other things, and paying taxes … on those gains,” Solomon said.

While history suggests investors buying shares of a new public company on its IPO day can be a terrible entry point, Capgemini’s Russignan added that given how much insiders stand to earn, these IPOs could “meaningfully expand the high-net-worth individual population.”

Ahead of those major deals, 2026 was already looking good for Wall Street’s wealth managers. They’re on track to see a 5% bump in compensation, according to first quarter projections from consulting firm Johnson Associates.

The market rally of recent years has also intensified competition among investment advisers, private banks, family offices, alternative asset managers, and fintech platforms.

Wealthy investors are increasingly spreading their money across more firms to access specialized investments like private equity and services such as tax and estate planning.

The share of wealthy people working with one wealth manager has fallen from 39% in 2019 to 19% in 2025. The proportion using four to six managers has doubled, according to the report.

David Hollerith is a senior reporter at Yahoo Finance covering the cryptocurrency and stock markets. Follow him on X at @DsHollers.

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