{"id":1026813,"date":"2026-08-06T11:08:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T05:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1026813"},"modified":"2026-08-06T11:08:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T05:38:28","slug":"amazon-shares-fall-after-tech-giant-crossed-the-3-trillion-market-cap-analysts-link-it-to-jeff-bezos-plan-to-sell-15-million-amazon-shares-heres-what-filing-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/06\/amazon-shares-fall-after-tech-giant-crossed-the-3-trillion-market-cap-analysts-link-it-to-jeff-bezos-plan-to-sell-15-million-amazon-shares-heres-what-filing-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon shares fall after tech giant crossed the $3 trillion market-cap, analysts link it to Jeff Bezos plan to sell 15 million Amazon shares, here&#8217;s what filing shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon briefly crossed the $3 trillion market-cap threshold on August 3, closing more than 4.5% higher at a record price. But in overnight trading, the shares slipped about 1% after a regulatory filing revealed founder Jeff Bezos plans to sell 15 million shares valued at $4.07 billion. The timing cooled investor enthusiasm just hours after the historic rally. According to a report by Stocktwits, the filling listed August 3 as the approximate sale date. The shares were acquired as founder stock in July 1994 and will be sold under a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan adopted in November 2025. If completed, Bezos\u2019 stake would fall from 884 million shares to 869 million, or about 8.1% of Amazon\u2019s 10.79 billion outstanding shares. His remaining stake would still be worth around $244 billion at current prices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon briefly crossed the $3 trillion market-cap threshold on August 3, closing more than 4.5% higher at a record price. But in overnight trading, the shares slipped about 1% after a regulatory filing revealed founder Jeff Bezos plans to sell 15 million shares valued at $4.07 billion. The timing cooled investor enthusiasm just hours after the historic rally. According to a report by Stocktwits, the filling listed August 3 as the approximate sale date. The shares were acquired as founder stock in July 1994 and will be sold under a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan adopted in November 2025. If completed, [&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-1026813","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\/1026813","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=1026813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1026814,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026813\/revisions\/1026814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}