Würth vs Cohen
Würth Group and Point72.
The differences
- Forbes puts Reinhold Würth about $0.6B ahead of Steve Cohen.Forbes figures from 9 Oct 2026 and 9 Oct 2026.
- Reinhold Würth: inherited and grew it. Steve Cohen: founded it.
- Reinhold Würth is about 21 years older than Steve Cohen.
- Reinhold Würth is from Germany; Steve Cohen is from United States.
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Side by side
Würth
CohenThe money
- Net worth, Forbes
- $27.3BForbes, 9 Oct 2026
- $26.7BForbes, 9 Oct 2026
- Net worth, Bloomberg
- Not stated
- $22.2BBloomberg, 11 Oct 2026
- Forbes rank
- No. 89Real-Time list, 9 Oct 2026
- No. 90Real-Time list, 9 Oct 2026
- Billionaire since
- Not stated
- 2004Earliest Forbes list in the cited sources: the 2004 World's Richest People; an earlier listing isn't ruled out
Where it came from
- How it started
- Inherited and grew itJoined his father Adolf's screw wholesaler in 1949 and took over its management in 1954, aged 19, after his father's death
- Founded itFounded S.A.C. Capital Advisors in 1992 and converted it into the Point72 family office in 2014
- Main source
- Control of the Würth Group through family trustsBloomberg: the trusts are held in the name of his three children
- His holdings in Point72's hedge fundsBloomberg: about $16.6 billion of Point72's $50.7 billion in assets (April 2026) belongs to him; he also owns 95% of the New York Mets
- Companies
- Würth GroupWürth Group: Honorary chairman of the supervisory board; chairman of the supervisory board of the Würth Group's family trusts
- Point72Point72: Founder, chairman, CEO and co-chief investment officer
- Biggest stake
- Würth GroupStake not stated
- Point72Stake not stated
The person
- Born
- 20 Apr 1935Öhringen, Germany
- 1956Great Neck, New York, United States
- Country
- GermanyLives in Künzelsau, Germany
- United States
- Education
- No universityApprenticeship as a wholesale and retail merchant, completed 1952
- Bachelor's degreeBS in economics, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (1978)
- Parents
- Father Adolf Würth founded a screw wholesaler in 1945; mother Alma Würth co-founded the company
- Father was a garment manufacturer and mother a piano teacher; the third of eight children
What they give
- Giving Pledge
- Not a signer
- Not a signer
- Foundation
- Würth FoundationEstablished with his wife Carmen Würth in 1987
- Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation
- Lifetime giving
- Not stated
- $1.5BSteven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation, 17 Oct 2026. The foundation says it has given over $1.5 billion to US public charities since 2001; Forbes says he has given more than $1 billion over his lifetime
Role and record
- Role now
- On the boardHonorary chairman of the Würth Group's supervisory board; chairman of the supervisory board of its family trusts
- Runs the companyChairman, CEO and co-CIO of Point72; chairman and CEO of the New York Mets
- Successor
- In 2025 he passed the baton to his grandchildren Benjamin, Sebastian and Maria Würth; his daughter Bettina chaired the advisory board from 2006
- Not stated
- Public office
- None found
- None found
- Legal record
- 2008: Heilbronn Local Court (Amtsgericht Heilbronn)A penalty order for tax evasion fined him and two company managers between 600 and 700 daily rates, which left him with a criminal record; the amount per daily rate was not disclosed.
- 2016: US SECSettled SEC charges that he failed reasonably to supervise a portfolio manager who engaged in insider trading, agreeing to a bar on supervising funds that manage outside money until 2018 and to SEC examinations of his family office; he neither admitted nor denied the finding.
