Skip to navigationSkip to main contentSkip to right columnADVERTISEMENTDamilola EsebameSun, August 9, 2026 at 4:07 PM GMT+2 5 min readAmazon became the fifth company to reach a $3 trillion market cap on August 3, and its founder quickly moved to capitalize on the moment.Jeff Bezos filed to 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 scrutiny across Wall Street.Bezos files $4 billion sale as Amazon stock hits record closeThe filing, a Form 144 submitted to the Securities 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.More Amazon:Bank of America doubles down on Amazon shares after Prime Day