Phillip Frost
$2.01B
$1K
as of 05/17/25
About Phillip Frost
A long-time health care investor, inventor and founder, Phillip Frost now runs diagnostics-maker Opko Health.
Frost joined Key Pharmaceuticals in 1972, reformulated its asthma drug and sold the company in 1986 for $836 million.
Frost founded Ivax, a generic drugmaker, in 1987. He sold it to Teva Pharmaceuticals for $7.6 billion in 2005.
In 2018, the SEC accused him of participating in a "pump-and-dump" scheme that generated over $27 million from unlawful stock sales.
Frost denied the allegations in a personal statement. He settled with the SEC in 2018 without admitting or denying the allegations.
Personal stats
Citizenship
United States of AmericaSource of wealth
PharmaceuticalsResidence
Miami Beach, FloridaMarital status
MarriedBirth date
11/11/36 (age 88)Education
Bachelor of Arts/Science, University of Pennsylvania; Medical Doctor, Yeshiva U Albert Einstein College of MedicineSelf-made
self-madePhillip Frost’s fortune is worth
34K
troy ounces of gold
31K
median U.S. household
20K
median U.S. income
0.04%
U.S. credit card volume
0.008%
GDP of the United States
0.006%
United States debt
Net worth history
Annual ranking
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Frost and his wife, who have no children, have signed the Giving Pledge and have donated more than $130 million to the University of Miami.
Net worth over time
Real-time ranking
Financial assets
NYSE AMERICAN | ADGE-US
American DG Energy IncNYSE AMERICAN | ASXC-US
Asensus Surgical IncNASDAQ | BCDA-US
BioCardiaNASDAQ | COCP-US
Cocrystal PharmaNASDAQ | COCP-US
Cocrystal PharmaNYSE | DOUG-US
Douglas EllimanUS OTC | COMS-US
Drone AviationNASDAQ | FLNT-US
FluentNASDAQ | IGNYU-US
Ignyte Acquisition CorpNASDAQ | NXPL-US
NextPlatNASDAQ | NAGE-US
Niagen BioscienceUS OTC | NNUP-US
Nocopi TechnologiesUS OTC | NIMU-US
Non-Invasive Monitoring Systems Inc.NASDAQ | OPK-US
Opko HealthNASDAQ | OPK-US
Opko HealthNASDAQ | OPK-US
Opko HealthNASDAQ | OPK-US
Opko HealthNASDAQ | OPK-US
Opko HealthNASDAQ | OPK-US
Opko HealthNASDAQ | OPK-US
Opko HealthNASDAQ | OPK-US
Opko HealthUS OTC | PKBO-US
Peak Bio, Inc.NYSE | PFE-US
PfizerHONG KONG | 6808-HK
Sun Art Retail Group LimitedNYSE | TEVA-US
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.NYSE | VGR-US
Vector Group Ltd.NASDAQ | VERU-US
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