Tesla Inc. CEO Elon Musk sold shares worth $963.2 million on Thursday, as per filings made with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
What Happened: Musk sold 934,091 shares of Tesla and also exercised options to purchase 2.17 million shares of the automaker at $6.24.
As per the filings, the shares were “sold solely to satisfy the reporting person’s tax withholding obligations.”
Why It Matters: At the beginning of the month, Musk sold Tesla shares worth $1.01 billion and exercised options to buy 2.1 million shares.
Musk polled his Twitter audience in early November if he should sell 10 percent of his holdings in Tesla.
Across the S&P500, insiders have sold $63.5 billion in shares through November. This is a rise of 50 percent compared with 2020, reported The Wall Street Journal.
The technology sector dominated these sales with $41 billion in sales across the market, as per the Journal.
Musk’s 31-day total sales amount to 11.0 million shares, 64.7 percent of target. The sales amount to $11.8 billion at an average price of $1,073, according to a Twitter post by Gary Black, the managing partner at The Future Fund LLC, an SEC-registered investment advisor.
@elonmusk sold 934,091 $tsla shares today at an avg price of $1,031 (total $963M), bringing his 31-day total sales to 11.0M shares (64.7% of target) for $11.8B (avg price $1,073). The sales were to pay taxes on a 2.17M options (total 12.8M, 56.1% or total) under his 10b5-1 plan. pic.twitter.com/IfSiWX9a2q
— Gary Black (@garyblack00) December 10, 2021
Black said he hoped Musk will stop allowing Tesla shorts to “front run” his sales each week. “No other CEO selling this amount of stock would enable HFs to jump in front of sales,” Black said in a separate tweet.
Notably, the Tesla CEO does not receive a salary and is compensated instead through a stock options plan.
By Shivdeep Dhaliwal
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