Arthur Blank Tops Georgia Forbes 400 With $13.2 Billion as Cathy Family Slips to No. 116
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Updated · WSB Atlanta · Sep 17
Arthur Blank Tops Georgia Forbes 400 With $13.2 Billion as Cathy Family Slips to No. 116
3 articles · Updated · WSB Atlanta · Sep 17
Summary
Arthur Blank ranked No. 99 on the new Forbes 400, becoming Georgia’s richest resident with a net worth of $13.2 billion, up from $11.4 billion a year earlier.
That gain lifted the Home Depot co-founder and sports owner above last year’s Georgia leaders — Bubba Cathy, Dan Cathy and Trudy Cathy White — whose combined fortune was listed at $12 billion at No. 116.
Georgia placed at least seven entries on the list, including Jim Kennedy at No. 224 with $7.6 billion, John Brown at No. 251 with $6.9 billion, and Gary Rollins and family at No. 293 with $5.8 billion.
The broader 2026 Forbes 400 was buoyed by a strong stock market and the AI-data center boom, with Elon Musk leading nationally at $908 billion and the cutoff rising to $4.4 billion.