- Insider stock sales amounted to $16 billion in 2025, according to data from Washington Service.
- Jeff Bezos cashed in nearly $6 billion of Amazon stock throughout the year.
- Detailed below are the top five sellers of 2025, ranked by proceeds.
2025 was — on the whole — a good time to cash in profits on stock positions, considering the S&P 500 finished 16% higher.
The gains were even bigger in tech, particularly for companies with their wagons hitched to the red-hot AI trade, which lifted the likes of Alphabet and Nvidia to market-beating performance.
Data from Washington Service shows that insider stock sales totaled $16 billion last year. The biggest seller of all was Jeff Bezos, who liquidated $5.7 billion.
Listed below are the details around Bezos, as well as the four other biggest sellers across the market. Note that nearly all of the sales tallied for this exercise were part of established plans, with purchases happening at pre-signaled intervals.
Jeff Bezos
Bezos
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Company: Amazon
Total shares sold: 25,000,000
Total value sold: $5.7 billion
The Amazon founder turned chairman turned many heads in 2025 with his high-profile wedding to media personality Lauren Sanchez, which pumped roughly $1.1 billion into Venice Italy's local economy.
During the year, though, Bezos also offloaded 25,000,000 shares of Amazon stock, taking home $5.7 billion. The Bloomberg Billionaires Index reveals that his most recent stock sale netted $3.5 billion. While the billionaire's net worth increased by $15 billion in 2025, he still slipped one notch on the list of the world's wealthiest people.
Safra Katz
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Company: Oracle
Total shares sold: 12,500,000
Total value sold: $2,531,343,305
Oracle enjoyed an overall strong year, despite a lackluster third-quarter earnings report that pulled the stock down in December. Former CEO Safra Katz exercised some stock options in the first half of the year, freeing up $1.8 billion.
She ended the year as the company's top insider seller, and still holds a position of 1.1 million shares.
Michael Dell
President Trump previously mentioned Michael Dell as an individual involved in the TikTok deal.
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Company: Dell Technologies
Total shares sold: 16,253,968
Total value sold: $2.2 billion
Dell Technologies CEO Michael Dell sold more than sixteen million shares, totaling $2.2 billion. His most recent sale netted $1.9 billion.
Dell and his wife Susan were in the news recently, investing $6.25 billion into "Trump Accounts," a move that inspired fellow billionaire Ray Dalio to do the same.
Jensen Huang
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Company: Nvidia
Total shares sold: 6,000,000
Total value sold: $1,048,586,165
Huang offloaded a total of 6,000,000 shares of Nvidia stock in 2025, resulting in $1 billion of proceeds. His highly profitable year helped him rise four places on the world's wealthiest list, rising from 12th place to 9th.
Ullal Jayshree
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Company: Arista Networks
Total shares sold: 7,560,143
Total value sold: $975,839,433
Jayshree may not be as high-profile as the other tech CEOs on this list, but her insider sales of Arista Networks stock landed her in the top five. She sold 7,560,143 for proceeds of $976 million.
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