Amazon founder and chairman Jeff Bezos has completed a massive round of stock sales worth nearly $5.7 billion, marking one of the largest insider divestments of 2025.
Bezos began the sell-off shortly after tying the knot in Venice in June, initially unloading $737 million worth of Amazon shares.
According to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Friday, he sold the final batch, about 4.2 million shares valued at $954 million, on Wednesday and Thursday this week.
The sales were executed under a pre-arranged 10b5-1 trading plan, allowing corporate insiders to sell stock over time without violating insider trading laws.
In total, the billionaire sold 25 million shares this year under the plan, capitalising on Amazon’s recent share price rally.
Bezos is no stranger to offloading Amazon stock. Last year, he sold 75 million shares for $13.6 billion, with much of the proceeds typically funneled into his other ventures like space exploration company Blue Origin.
He has also donated shares worth approximately $190 million to nonprofit organizations in 2025 alone. Notably, Bezos has only made one Amazon share purchase in more than two decades—a symbolic single share bought for $114.77 in 2023.
His recent $5.7 billion cash-out far exceeds that of other top executives in 2025. Oracle CEO Safra Catz sold $2.5 billion worth of shares in the first half of the year, while Dell Technologies founder Michael Dell offloaded a $1.2 billion stake.