Bloomberg reports that JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon and Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, as well as Oracle Corp. Chief Safra Katz, were among the notable insiders to unload billions of dollars’ worth of stock before President Donald Trump’s April 2nd tariff announcements started whipping up markets.
In January and February, when the stock of his company was worth over $600 million, Zuckerberg sold 733 million dollars worth of shares through his Chan Zuckerberg Foundation. The stock peaked at $736 per share on Feb. 14th. Meta’s share price has fallen by 32% since then, reducing Zuckerberg’s wealth from $259 billion down to $178 billion.
Catz was another top seller, with 3.8 million shares valued at $705 million. According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, the sale increased Catz’s worth to $ 2.4 billion.
Catz has a habit of exercising and selling shares as stock options when they expire.
Catz, under his 10b5-1 plan of trading, sold 3.8 million stock options at $180 per share in January for a total of $705 million. The value of this stock has also fallen by 30%.

Dimon sold JPMorgan Chase shares worth $234 million in the first quarter. This brought his net worth to $3 billion according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
Another noteworthy seller: Stephen Cohen, president of Palantir Technologies, who offloaded more than 4 million shares worth $337.2 million, bringing his net worth to $3.3 billion.
All Palantir Insiders sold over $4 billion in stock between January and February 2025. Palantir has still managed to grow by 24% in 2025, despite the extreme volatility of the market.
Dimon sold 866.361 shares valued at $233.78 million on February 20. He was able to time his sale perfectly, just two days after 2025’s high.

Dimon sold another 133,639 shares for $31.5 million on April 14th. Dimon has now sold JPMorgan Chase stock worth more than $250,000,000 this year.
Ted Sarandos is another shrewd seller this year. He is the co-CEO at Netflix. Sarandos agreed to a 10b5-1 plan in October last year to sell 199,063 shares by February 2026. Sarandos sold the shares on Jan. 30 for $173m, and paid $21m to exercise his options. Netflix declined to comment on the transaction to Bloomberg.
Elon Musk’s wealth, the richest man in the world, has decreased by $129 billion over the past year due to the uncertainty that tariffs have brought about for the U.S. economy, China, and others around the globe.
In the first quarter of 2025, the total amount of insider sales was lower than the first quarter of last year, when 4,702 people sold $28.1 billion. Ten sellers sold $3.8 billion worth of stock in the first quarter of 2025.