Bill Gates founded the software company Microsoft Corporation with his friend
Gates remains one of the largest shareholders in Microsoft MSFT, with 103 million shares in the company that amount to a 1.38% stake, according to FactSet.
Bill Gates still owns more than 1% of Microsoft's shares, worth around twenty billion dollars. Gates has a lot of his financial investments held by a family office known as Cascade Investments. He also has substantial real estate holdings and an extensive collection of collectibles.
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust Bought Up Amazon, Apple, and Twitter Stock. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust made large initial stock purchases in the first quarter, a period marked with coronavirus-induced volatility.
Institutional investors hold a majority ownership of MSFT through the 72.38% of the outstanding shares that they control. This interest is also higher than at almost any other company in the Packaged Software industry.
Microsoft converted all of its shares into common stock by 2001, giving it roughly 18.1 million shares of Apple. And by the year 2003, Microsoft had sold its entire stake in Apple for $550 million.
Bill Gates Walmart Inc
That's 1.21% of their equity portfolio (9th largest holding). The first Walmart trade was made in Q2 2006. Since then Bill Gates bought shares eight more times and sold shares on five occasions. The stake costed the investor $163 Million, netting the investor a gain of 184% so far.
Who owns Google? Google (NASDAQ: GOOGL) is owned by 62.59% institutional shareholders, 3.42% Google insiders, and 33.99% retail investors. Brin Sergey is the largest individual Google shareholder, owning 367.31M shares representing 2.89% of the company. Brin Sergey's Google shares are currently valued at $45.37B.
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As of September 2021, Gates' net worth is estimated to be around $125 billion. If his fortune were converted to gold, he would have approximately 2,500 metric tons of the metal. That's equivalent to about two Olympic-sized swimming pools filled with gold.
DE C.V. - ADR. 2023-02-10 - Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust has filed an SC 13G/A form with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) disclosing ownership of 6,228,804 shares of Coca-Cola Femsa S.A.B. DE C.V. - ADR (US:KOF). This represents 11.9 percent ownership of the company.
The three top individual/insider shareholders in Pfizer are Frank A. D'Amelio, Mikael Dolsten, and Albert Bourla. The three top institutional shareholders are Vanguard Group Inc., BlackRock Inc., and State Street Corp. Pfizer's third quarter 2022 revenue was $22.6 billion.
McDonald's is a publicly-traded company, with a considerable percentage of its shareholders being institutional. The top 5 institutions with the most significant stake in McDonald's include The Vanguard Group Inc, SSgA Funds Management Inc, BlackRock Fund Advisors, Wellington Management Co.
The three largest individual shareholders of Apple are Tim Cook (CEO), Arthur D. Levinson (Independent Chairman), and Albert Arnold Gore (Independent Director and former U.S. Vice President).
Bill Gates started to build up the position in Alphabet in Q1 2020. Since then they sold 862 Thousand shares. The investor completely sold their stake between Q4 2020 and Q1 2022.
Gates invested in Hampton Creek Foods, a startup company working on plant protein based egg substitutes, and has praised Beyond Meat, a meat substitute company. Thiel gave a grant to Modern Meadow, a company using animal stem cells in what it calls "tissue engineering" to create meat and leather via 3D printing.
Bill Gates Costco Wholesale Corp
The first Costco Wholesale trade was made in Q3 2002. Since then Bill Gates bought shares ten more times and sold shares on four occasions. The investor sold all their shares in Q4 2012 and doesn't own any shares in Costco Wholesale anymore.
Gates currently uses Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 4 and before this he used Galaxy Z Fold 3 as his primary phone. Gates seemed quite impressed with the Fold 4's “screen size” which –according to him, allows him the freedom to not use “a tablet but just the phone and my portable PC.”
Microsoft has been a publicly-traded corporation since March 13th, 1986. That means that rather than being owned by a single individual or by its CEO, Microsoft is owned by its shareholders.
Gates didn't elaborate on why he continues to have a preference for Android over iPhone. During an interview in 2021, however, Gates said that it comes down to Android manufacturers being “more flexible” with software integration.
Institutional investors own over 50% of the company, so together than can probably strongly influence board decisions. We note that hedge funds don't have a meaningful investment in Microsoft.
Amazon is owned by its shareholders. The largest one is its founder Jeff Bezos, who owns 9.7% of the company. Other large owners are asset manager Vanguard with 7.0% ownership and BlackRock, with 5.8% share. The sizable individual owner is also MacKenzie Scott, with 2.6% ownership.
In 2015, Google was reorganized as a wholly owned subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. Google is Alphabet's largest subsidiary and is a holding company for Alphabet's internet properties and interests.
Pfizer is making its largest-ever debt issuance.