Edited by Peter Hillerberg1 min readStories are generated from ORTEX data and reviewed by the ORTEX team. How we publish
The most notable US insider activity in the latest available data shows Bill Gates making a series of large open-market purchases in RSG, Republic Services. Three separate filings in early September show Gates bought $34.5M, $32.3M and $27.4M worth of shares across consecutive trading days in late August and early September 2026. Combined, that is roughly $94M added to his position in under a week. Gates is listed as a main shareholder, and these are discretionary buys, not compensation grants.
Republic Services is the second-largest solid waste company in the US. The purchases came as inflation remained elevated. The US CPI-U all-items index hit 336.94 in September 2026, a record for that month since 1997. Waste and environmental services companies often pass through cost increases, which may have made the stock attractive at those levels.
Elsewhere, Li Ning's controlling holding company Viva China added over $130M in three tranches across the Hong Kong exchange during the same period, a sign of confidence from the top.
Note: the ORTEX insider database for this analysis is current to 8 September 2026. More recent filings, including any SEC Form 4 activity filed in October, could not be retrieved from the primary EDGAR tables in this environment.
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