Chairman, CEO and President Jeffrey P. Bezos sold 1,000,000 shares for $3,022.84, generating $3.02 billion from the sale.
Other notable Amazon Insider Sales:
CEO Amazon Web Services Andrew R. Jassy sold 6,945 shares for $3,061.74, generating $21.26 million from the sale. CEO Worldwide Consumer Jeffrey A. Wilke sold 2,000 shares for $3,011.40, generating $6.02 million from the sale. These shares were sold indirectly through a trust. Director Jonathan Rubinstein sold 329 shares for $3,061.74, generating $1 million from the sale.
Jeff Bezos has been a big seller of Amazon.com stock this year, starting with a large 2 million shares sale worth $4.07 billion in February and then another 1 million shares sale in August worth $3.13 billion, as you can see here. In total, he sold 4 million shares worth $10.22 billion this year. To put this in perspective, the median market cap of the 505 constituents of the S&P 500 index is $22.34 billion. He sold 1.5 million shares worth $2.83 billion last year and just 20,164 shares in 2018.
(from SeekingAlpha)
We joke about this, but its true. Do you know how hard it is to sell stocks? You have to login to an account and click a few buttons. Those simpletons just don't understand what we Economics Understanders have to go through in order to keep our heads above water.