What to know

• The sale was executed under a 10b5-1 trading plan, a prescheduled arrangement set up in advance rather than a discretionary decision made at the time of sale.
• Nadella reportedly retains roughly 400,000 Microsoft shares after the transaction, according to online commenters.
• The coverage is routine executive stock-sale disclosure; at least one commenter questioned why it merits attention given the prescheduled nature of the sale.

“Yea Google says he's got another 400k shares left, give or take. He's gotta schedule it via 10b5-1 like you say, so.... Not sure what the story is here.”

mattl33, Reddit commenter · Reddit · Sep 3

Satya Nadella Microsoft CEO