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Never Mind Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s Stock Sales. Look What Microsoft’s CEO Just Did.

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November 30, 2021
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Satya Nadella.

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A lot has been made of

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Tesla

CEO Elon Musk’s stock sales, but


Microsoft

CEO Satya Nadella recently sold a chunk of stock that is a much larger portion of his total holdings.

Nadella sold about half his stake in Microsoft (ticker: MSFT), according to recent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The CEO unloaded 838,584 shares on Nov. 22 and 23, netting him about $285 million. He has about 831,000 Microsoft shares left, worth roughly $280 million.

It isn’t clear why he sold. Microsoft didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment on the sales or to make Nadella available to discuss them. Investors are left to debate whether Nadella is diversifying his holdings, paying capital-gains taxes in 2021, ahead of potential tax increases proposed by the Biden administration, or selling for another reason.

Regardless of the reason, the sale is significant. It represents a large portion of his total pay and holdings. Nadella’s total reported compensation over the past three years amounts to about $137 million, including more than $93 million worth of stock.

Microsoft doesn’t award stock options any longer. The company has shifted to performance stock awards that are earned when certain time or performance milestones are hit.

Nadella’s base salary is $2.5 million. That’s cash.

He has been CEO since early 2014. Microsoft stock has returned about 35% a year on average since then, while the

S&P 500
and

Dow Jones Industrial Average
have returned about 16% and 14% a year on average, respectively, over the same span.

The Nadella sales take the CEO pay-and-taxation spotlight away from Musk for the moment. Musk started selling Tesla stock after asking


Twitter

(TWTR) followers if he should sell 10% of his holdings to accelerate paying taxes on unrealized capital gains. Twitter voted yes and the sales commenced.

Musk has sold about 8.6 million shares worth $9.2 billion in recent weeks. He appears to be about half way through the 10% sale his Twitter followers voted for. It’s hard to say exactly, however. Some sales have been stock received as Musk has exercised stock options, while other sales have been from his existing holdings.

Most of Musk’s pay comes in the form of management stock options. Musk, excluding his options, owns about 17% of Tesla stock. Nadella owns about 0.01% of Microsoft stock outstanding.

Microsoft shares aren’t doing much in response to the news. Shares were 0.6% lower in early trading Tuesday, while the S&P 500 and Dow were both down about 0.7%.

Write to Al Root at allen.root@dowjones.com

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