Top
image credit: Unsplash

Musk’s super stock sale is just about done: The Tesla CEO has sold nearly 17 million stocks and exercised all the Tesla stock options in his trading plan

December 29, 2021

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has exercised the last of his stock options under a prearranged trading plan.

On Tuesday, Musk exercised an option to buy about 1.6 million Tesla shares, according to a regulatory filing. According to that filing and another document also filed on Tuesday, the billionaire also sold over 934,000 shares for $1.02 billion.

Musk’s stock sales will cover taxes on the exercise of the option under a prearranged trading plan set up in September. Tuesday’s filings confirmed that the “10b5-1 trading plan” was completed on December 28, 2021.

Read More on Markets Insider