Founder and former CEO of Amazon, Jeff Bezos plans to sell up to $4.75 billion worth of the company’s stock over the next 12 months. According to new regulatory filings, the planned sale of 25 million shares will take place through an orderly trading plan that runs until the end of May 2026. The timing of the filing was in line with Amazon's warning regarding the effect of US President Donald Trump's global trade war.
Bezos, who directly owned over 909.4 million Amazon shares as of March 3, 2025, has previously sold Amazon stock through similar trading plans. In February 2024, he divested 50 million shares, generating over $8.5 billion.
Despite these substantial sales, Bezos still holds over 926 million shares, representing just under 9% of Amazon's total stock. These transactions are part of Bezos’s ongoing strategy to liquidate stock holdings to fund his space venture, Blue Origin.
The world’s second-richest man has gradually shifted his attention away from the ecommerce company he founded in 1994, paying renewed focus on his space venture Blue Origin and US newspaper The Washington Post.
Bezos, who stepped down as Seattle-based tech group’s chief executive in mid-2021, will sell up to 25mn shares via an orderly trading plan running through to the end of May 2026.
In recent months Bezos has also engaged in a concerted effort to mend his relationship with a US president he once criticised as a “threat to democracy”.
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