After Taking A Thanksgiving Break, Elon Musk Is Back To Selling Tesla Stock

Now that the post-Thanksgiving food coma has worn off, Elon Musk has resumed selling Tesla shares with unprecedented vigor. He exercised options to buy 2.1 million shares on Thursday, according to Securities and Exchange Commission filings, and immediately unloaded 924,091 shares, worth about $1 billion, to cover the tax bill from the transaction.  All told, Musk has shed about 10.1 million Tesla shares, worth nearly $11 billion. Roughly $5 billion of that sum has gone toward taxes owed from options exercising; the remaining money—an estimated $4.4 billion after taxes—has gone into Musk’s pockets. After taking a week off from jettisoning Tesla shares, Elon Musk has resumed his unprecedented selling spree…. Click below to read the full story from Forbes
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