Jeff Bezos will offload up to 25 million Amazon shares, according to a new Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing.
Amazon said Friday in its quarterly report filed with the SEC that its billionaire founder adopted a trading plan "intended to satisfy Rule 10b5-1(c)" early last month to part ways with up to that many shares.
Billionaire American businessman Jeff Bezos arrives for his meeting with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson at the UK diplomatic residence in New York City on Sept. 20, 2021. (Michael M. Santiago/Pool via REUTERS / Reuters Photos)
The 25 million Amazon shares had a value of over $4.7 billion as of Friday morning.
The plan enables Bezos, who founded Amazon more than three decades ago and serves as the company’s executive chair, to sell the shares "over a period ending on May 29, 2026, subject to certain conditions," per the quarterly report.
A separate SEC filing indicated Bezos directly owned over 909.4 million shares of the e-commerce giant as of March 3.
The Amazon founder has taken up trading plans to sell Amazon shares in various instances in the past.
Under one of the prior ones he adopted, he shed 50 million shares through multiple rounds of sales over several weeks in February 2024, fetching over $8.5 billion.
Bezos derives a major portion of his 12-figure net worth from his Amazon stake.
The Amazon logo is displayed outside Amazon UK MAN8 Warehouse on Oct. 15, 2023 in Haydock, United Kingdom. (Nathan Stirk/Getty Images / Getty Images)
The Amazon founder had a personal fortune of $205.4 billion as of Friday morning by Forbes’ measure. With that figure, he ranked as the second-richest person on Earth, surpassed only by Tesla CEO Elon Musk.
Bezos is also the owner of the Washington Post and created Blue Origin.