{"id":1008535,"date":"2026-05-18T11:26:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T05:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1008535"},"modified":"2026-05-18T11:26:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T05:56:19","slug":"bill-gates-foundation-reduces-its-microsoft-stake-to-zero-from-28-5-million-a-move-driven-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/18\/bill-gates-foundation-reduces-its-microsoft-stake-to-zero-from-28-5-million-a-move-driven-by\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates Foundation reduces its Microsoft stake to Zero from 28.5 million, a move driven by\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Gates&#8217; charity foundation no longer owns a single share of Microsoft (MSFT)\u2014the first time that&#8217;s been true since the foundation was set up in 2000. The Gates Foundation Trust sold its final 7.7 million MSFT shares in Q1 2026, a stake worth $3.2 billion, capping a two-year wind-down that began with 28.5 million shares. The 13F filing landed on May 15, and Microsoft stock slipped 0.42% to $422.07 the same day, even as billionaire investor Bill Ackman disclosed a fresh $2.3 billion Microsoft buy on the very same day.<\/p>\n<p>Why the Gates Foundation Trust sold its entire Microsoft stake in Q1 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Gates&#8217; charity foundation no longer owns a single share of Microsoft (MSFT)\u2014the first time that&#8217;s been true since the foundation was set up in 2000. The Gates Foundation Trust sold its final 7.7 million MSFT shares in Q1 2026, a stake worth $3.2 billion, capping a two-year wind-down that began with 28.5 million shares. The 13F filing landed on May 15, and Microsoft stock slipped 0.42% to $422.07 the same day, even as billionaire investor Bill Ackman disclosed a fresh $2.3 billion Microsoft buy on the very same day. Why the Gates Foundation Trust sold its entire Microsoft stake [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1008535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}