Bezos Sells $4 Billion In Amazon Stock As It Hits $3 Trillion For First Time.
Cramer Calls It A “Buzzkill.” Quick Read – AMZN crossed $3 trillion market cap for the first time as AWS grew 37% to $42 billion, its fastest pace in 18 quarters. – Bezos’s $4 billion sale was pre-scheduled in November 2025, making the $3 trillion timing purely coincidental rather than a bearish signal. – Amazon’s $5.75 EPS crushed the $1.82 estimate, but roughly $53 billion of net income came from a non-cash Anthropic mark-to-market gain. – Amazon crossed $3 trillion in market capitalization for the first time on Monday, capping a blowout earnings week
Within the same news cycle, founder Jeff Bezos filed to sell roughly $4 billion of his own shares under a pre-scheduled trading plan, and CNBC’s Jim Cramer summed up the optics on X: “Cant begrudge Bezos for selling $4 billion shares…but what a buzzkill.” The $3 Trillion Moment Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) closed at $284.02 on Monday, August 3, 2026, up 4.58% for the day, pushing the retailer into the four-comma club alongside Apple, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Alphabet. The stock is up 16.33% over the past month and 25.40% year-to-date, and has climbed roughly 20.6% since the July 30 earnings report. For context, Apple sits at $303.42 and Microsoft at $487.65.
AWS reaccelerated hard and analysts fixated on a $496 billion AWS order backlog disclosed alongside the earnings report. The Earnings, Cleanly Explained Q2 revenue landed at $200.61 billion, versus a $196.46 billion estimate, the first quarter Amazon topped $200 billion. AWS revenue of $42.2 billion grew 37% year-over-year, its fastest pace in 18 quarters, with AWS operating income of $16.6 billion, up from $10.2 billion a year earlier, at a 39.4% operating margin.