Bill Gates filed to disclose he bought over $740 million worth of RSG stock across 51 transactions between mid-August and early September. The filings, recorded as recently as September 3, show him steadily accumulating shares in Republic Services, the waste management giant. The purchases spanned three weeks. That kind of persistence suggests deliberate conviction, not a one-off bet.
Republic Services carries a market cap of $65 billion. Short interest is just 1.7% of free float, so this is not a crowded short trade that Gates is leaning against. He is simply buying more of a company he has owned for years, and doing it at scale.
On the other side of the ledger, NVDA director Mark Stevens filed on September 2 to report selling $411 million across seven transactions. The trades ran from August 31 to September 2. Stevens is an independent director, not a C-level executive, and the dataset does not flag a 10b5-1 plan. At that size, the filing is hard to ignore, even if the signal from a non-executive director is less direct than a CEO trade.
Separately, Ronda Stryker, an independent director at SYK, filed in August to report $118 million in sales across 20 transactions. She is a member of the founding family, which adds some context, but the volume is still notable.
Taiwan's August export orders hit a record $103 billion, nearly double the year-ago level, per ORTEX Alt Data. That backdrop keeps semiconductor demand well supported, making the Stevens NVDA sales a point worth watching.
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