Elon Musk exercises more options, sells another $1 billion in Tesla stock
After a lull, Elon Musk sold another $1 billion in Tesla Inc. stock, continuing a nearly month-long sell-off that was expected to continue.
Based on file with On Thursday, Musk exercised a call option on 2.1 million shares at $6.24 per share and immediately sold more than 934,000 of them at prices starting at $1,058 by the Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday. to 1,112 USD, earning about 1.01 billion USD.
The sale is the first for a Tesla executive since November 23, following a flurry of sales in the previous weeks.
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Musk has sold about 10.1 million shares worth about $10.86 billion since November 8, a day later. Musk’s Twitter Poll Decides He Should Sell 10% Of His Tesla Shares. Some stock purchases were going well before the poll was published.
Assuming Musk intends to sell his 10% stake, he’s already more than half way through. Before the sale started, his 10% stake amounted to about 17 million shares – so after Thursday’s sale, he has about 6.9 million shares left.
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Musk, the world’s richest man, has millions of stock options he needs to exercise by August 2022, and in September Musk said in September that he plans to sell a large chunk of the stock. in the fourth quarter. CNBC reported last month that Musk faces $15 billion in taxes on those options.
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