Gates Pours $927M Into Republic Services

Bill Gates filed disclosures showing he bought roughly $927 million worth of Republic Services shares across 65 transactions between 10 August and 2 September 2026. The purchases, spread across nearly four weeks of near-daily buying, make this one of the largest sustained open-market stakes on record for the waste management group. The last tranche was filed on 3 September. Gates already holds a large position in RSG and his continued accumulation points to a strong conviction in the defensive infrastructure play.

On the other side of the ledger, NVIDIA board member Mark Stevens filed sales totalling $411 million across seven transactions between 31 August and 2 September 2026, disposing of around 1.85 million shares. The trades were filed on 2 September. Director-level sales of this size at NVIDIA draw attention given the stock's elevated valuation. No 10b5-1 plan was flagged in the data, though the volume and timing are worth watching.

Uber President and COO Andrew MacDonald filed on 8 September showing he bought around $5.3 million worth of Uber stock on 4 September. Split across two tranches at market prices, the purchase is a discretionary buy by a sitting C-suite executive. That carries more weight as a bullish signal than a pre-scheduled plan sale. ORTEX's vendor data for non-US names is current to 8 September; US Form 4 filings via EDGAR cover the same window.

Elsewhere, Chime Financial saw a venture capital backer, DST Global Advisors, file a $62 million sale in mid-August shortly after CHYM listed on Nasdaq, a typical post-IPO exit by an early investor. Stryker saw director Ronda Stryker file sales worth over $80 million across two tranches in the same period.