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What Is the Best Ending for Money in GTA 5?

Deathwish is the best GTA 5 ending for preserving access to all three characters’ money. The Big Score and Lester’s assassination trades determine how much you can build.
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Ending C: Deathwish, completed through the final mission The Third Way, is the best choice if you want the most money to remain accessible after GTA 5’s story. Michael, Franklin, and Trevor all survive, so you can continue playing as each character and use their individual cash, investments, properties, and remaining activities. Deathwish does not add a fixed cash bonus: the base payout comes from The Big Score and depends on your approach, crew, crew cuts, and any gold lost. [Vandal]

Which ending leaves you with the most money?

Deathwish preserves all three protagonists and their separate financial resources. The other endings permanently remove one character, making that character’s balance, investments, and character-specific access unavailable through them. That makes Ending C the strongest choice for preserving access and flexibility—not a guarantee that every account will show a larger number than in every possible playthrough.

Ending Who survives What happens to money and access
A: Something Sensible Michael and Franklin; Trevor is killed. Trevor’s remaining balance, investments, and character-specific access are no longer available through him. The Vandal ending guide says Trevor’s unpaid Big Score share is divided between Michael and Franklin. [Vandal]
B: The Time’s Come Franklin and Trevor; Michael is killed. Michael’s remaining balance, investments, and character-specific access are no longer available through him. His unpaid Big Score share goes to his family, not to Franklin or Trevor. [Vandal]
C: Deathwish / The Third Way Michael, Franklin, and Trevor. All three characters remain playable, with their own Big Score shares, balances, investments, properties, and remaining activities accessible. [Vandal]

The endings do not change The Big Score’s underlying take. Your choice of approach and crew affects the payout, including crew percentages and any gold lost during the heist. So, if you mean “Which ending gives a special extra payment?”, none does; if you mean “Which ending lets me keep using all three characters’ money?”, choose Deathwish. [Vandal]

How to maximize money with Lester’s assassination missions

The five Lester assassination missions create opportunities to trade stocks around their effects. The key timing choice is to complete the required Hotel Assassination when the story demands it, then save the other four missions until after the main story and final heist payout. A larger bankroll gives you more money to invest across all three protagonists. The following trade sequence is a guide, not a promise of fixed returns. [Vandal]

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Hotel Assassination Complete when required by the story. The guide identifies Betta Pharmaceuticals as a pre-mission opportunity and a Bilkinton recovery opportunity afterward.
Multi Target Assassination After the finale and payout, buy Debonaire before the mission; the guide then describes a later Redwood recovery trade.
Vice Assassination The guide identifies Fruit before the mission and a later Facade recovery opportunity.
Bus Assassination Buy Vapid after the mission’s price drop, not beforehand.
Construction Assassination The guide identifies GoldCoast as a pre-mission opportunity.

Check the exchange and your portfolio

Useful LCN movements are tied to events in your save. BAWSAQ relies on Rockstar online services and may be unavailable or show stale information when those services cannot be reached. Check that the exchange is displaying current listings before investing. [Vandal]

  1. Make a separate manual save before investing or starting an assassination mission, so you have a recovery point if a trade does not go as expected.
  2. Invest with each protagonist where the relevant character is available. Michael, Franklin, and Trevor have separate portfolios.
  3. Advance in-game time and check the portfolio’s displayed return. Sell when the return stops increasing rather than assuming a percentage from another playthrough will be your peak.

Stock peaks can vary by platform, version, and market state, so a quoted return is not a dependable sell trigger. Mission Replay does not apply a missed assassination trade to the persistent campaign save. [Vandal]

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Is Deathwish officially canon?

Later GTA Online continuity leaves both Trevor and Michael alive, which supports the inference that Ending C is the outcome carried forward. That is an inference from later stories, not a separate formal Rockstar announcement declaring a particular finale canon. [Vandal]

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