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Amazon became the fifth company to reach a$3 trillion market capon August 3, and its founder quickly moved to capitalize on the moment.
Jeff Bezos filedto sell roughly 15 million shares worth about $4.07 billion through Morgan Stanley, the second-largest single Form 144 he has filed by dollar value, behind the $5.4 billion filing he submitted on his wedding day in June 2025.
The disclosure is Bezos's first major sale since a separate 25-million-share program that generated nearly $5.7 billion between his June 2025 wedding day and late July 2025, when the earlier plan was completed.
The filing itself states he had no reportable sales in the prior three months.
Together, the two programs put his combined dispositions since mid-2025 at roughly $9.7 billion, still short of the $13.5 billion he sold across all of 2024, which was his personal annual record.
For a company celebrating its biggest valuation milestone in years, the timing of its founder's largest-ever stock sale drew immediate scrutinyacross Wall Street.
The filing, a Form 144 submitted to theSecurities and Exchange Commission, details a transaction arranged through Morgan Stanley Smith Barney as broker.
Bezos adopted the pre-arranged trading plan on November 14, 2025, under Rule 10b5-1, meaning the sale was scheduled months before Amazon reached $3 trillion.
Bank of America doubles down on Amazon shares after Prime Day Amazon's $8.3 billion Prime Day sends Wall Street a warning Amazon Prime Day gives Wall Street a $22B reason to take notice The shares trace back to Amazon's founding on July 5, 1994, when Bezos received his original allocation of founder stock upon incorporating the company.
Amazon closed at a record $284.02 on the day the filing appeared, up 4.58% in a single session following strong second-quarter earnings results,according to 247wallst.
Shares dropped more than 2% when markets opened on August 4 after the sale disclosure became public, briefly falling below the $280 level.
"Can't begrudge Bezos for selling $4 billion shares…but what a buzzkill," Jim Cramer, host of CNBC's "Mad Money,"wrote on X.
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