The highest income of Bill Gates - these are the three main companies owned by the American billionaire

With a fortune of 132.2 billion dollars, Bill Gates is the ninth richest person in the world. He also acquired that wealth by investing in shares, from which he has a daily income of 1.3 million dollars.

It is expected that during the next year there will be income of up to half a billion dollars from the shares. The shares of the three companies from which Gates generates the most income are Canadian National Railways, Microsoft, which he founded, and Waste Management.

He owns 54.8 million shares of Canadian National Railway, the current value of which is $6.6 billion. Since this company paid dividends of $2.38 per share last year, that means Gates was paid a dividend of $130 million.

There are almost 36.5 million shares in Microsoft, the current value of which is $16.13 billion. With an average dividend of three dollars per share, in the next 12 months he should earn almost $109.5 million from Microsoft shares.

In Waste Management, a company that deals with waste management in North America, he has 35.2 million shares, the current value of which is seven billion dollars. The company's annual dividend is $3 per share, which means Gates should have $105.7 million in revenue next year.

The mentioned companies are not the only companies whose shares are an important source of income for Gates.

For example, in real estate investment company Crown Castle, he has 1.4 million shares, which are expected to generate annual income of $8.8 million. /Telegraph/