Jeff Bezos completes $5.7 billion worth of Amazon stocks sale. Here’s why and how much he still owns…
According to the Bloomberg report, Jeff Bezos, the third richest man in the world, has sold Cumulative $ 5.7 billion of Amazon shares since June in June.
Applications with the US SEC showed that the 61 -year -old billionaire has reduced 4.2 million shares worth $ 954 million on July 23; After a value of $ 737 million, sold for a while near the Venice wedding in June 2025.
The report added that representatives of Amazon and Jeff Bezos did not respond immediately to the queries on the subject.
Amazon Stocks: How much did Jeff bezos sell? How much does he still have?
In 2024, he sold 75 million Amazon shares of 13.6 billion dollars of handsome.
According to a Barron report, on 21 and 22 July 2025, he sold 6.6 million dollars worth $ 1.5 billion. Before that, Jeff Bezos reportedly sold a rabbit worth $ 737 million in the e-commerce giant in June.
Bloomberg data has shown that Jeff Bezos has sold more than $ 50 billion Amazon shares since 2002. In fact, since the company was founded in 2002, only the first and acquisition of Amazon shares have purchased a share for $ 114,77 in 2023.
Despite fixed sales, Jeff Bezos remains the largest shareholders of the company’s total shares of more than 884 million Amazon. In particular, his shares in the Amazon constitute a large part of the Bloomberg Billionaire Index (BBI) data of $ 252.3 billion.
Why did Jeff Bezos sell the Amazon shares?
In the report, the US SEC. After the trade plan, the company, which was accepted up to 25 million shares in March, climbed over 8 percent due to US market -supported rallies.
However, investors came to Amazon’s artificial intelligence (AI) heavy expenditures after investors waiting for quarter results, the company’s share of 38 percent (since April Lows) increased as it increased.
What is 10b5-1 trade plan?
According to the BB report, all of Jeff Bezos’s Amazon stock sales were often carried out by the administrators within the scope of the 10B5-1 trade plan used to avoid violating the trade laws from the inside.
The Barrons report said that çalıştırısında In order to eliminate the appearance that can benefit from access to information that is not open to public information, predetermined plans that automatically carry out transactions when preset conditions such as price, volume and timing are met ”.
Jeff Bezos sells Amazon shares: Where will income be used?
According to the Bloomberg report, Jeff Bezos used historically revenues from Amazon stock sales to finance the space company Blue Origin or to direct them to filanthorphic efforts.
So far, in 2025, various non -profit organizations gave 190 million dollars. In March, the stocks of approximately $ 60 million were reported and in May, another stock package worth approximately $ 125 million, and then provided 5 million dollars in June.
The biggest utilities were Bezos World Fund, which is a commitment of 10 billion dollars to combat climate change, and a 2 billion dollars of attempt to focus on homelessness.
(With inputs from agencies)
