Bill Gates Loads Up on Republic Services

Bill Gates spent over $926m buying shares in RSG (Republic Services) between 10 August and 2 September 2026, filed with regulators on 3 September. The purchases covered 4.2 million shares at prices ranging around $219 to $223 each. Gates already held a major stake as a principal shareholder. The steady, multi-week accumulation is a discretionary buy with no 10b5-1 plan attached, making it a strong signal of conviction in the waste management giant.

Elsewhere, Kenneth Dart disclosed two open-market purchases in Swedish gaming firm EVO totalling roughly $716m, filed in late August. Dart bought 10 million shares across two tranches in late July at around 690 SEK per share. As a main shareholder, the move reinforces a bullish stance at a time when Evolution has faced regulatory scrutiny in several markets.

On the sell side, a hedge fund board representative at TWLO (Twilio) filed a $124m block sale on 12 August, covering 500,000 shares at $247 each. The filing came the same day as the trade, suggesting a planned exit rather than a reactive decision.

Note: ORTEX's first-party SEC EDGAR Form 4 tables were unavailable in this query environment, so the US trades above are drawn from the vendor insider dataset. C-level granularity for US names was therefore limited.