NVIDIA CEOs exchange $ 1 billion in shares

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Those familiar with NVIDIA have sold more than a billion dollars from the company’s shares over the past 12 months, including a recent increase in trading, while executive officials are enthusiastically investigating artificial intelligence.

More than $ 500 million of stock sales were made this month, as the California chips designer’s share price rose to the highest level.

Investors have fallen into stocks, making them the most valuable companies in the world as they bet on the tremendous demand for chips on artificial intelligence applications. The rise in the price comes after a turbulent year in it Nafidia Commercial tensions between the United States of China and Chinese achievements that threaten demand for their products.

Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, has started selling shares this week for the first time since September.

NVIDIA said that all HUANG sales were part of a pre -arranged trading plan, which was agreed in March, which determines the prices and dates in which sales will be operated. Huang Stills maintains the vast majority of its shares in NVIDIA.

“When the arrow (dropped) decreased in the first quarter, he did not sell, (who was) was really smart,” said Ben Silverman, Vice President of Research at Veritydata.

Silverman added: “(Huang) waited for the arrow to return to the levels he felt more comfortable,” Silverman added.

Veritydata, which tracks internal sales based on organizational deposits, said in a report that the NVIDIA share exceeds $ 150 that seems to have led to Huang sales.

Huang began selling after the 90 -day cooling period for the sales plan. Managers and senior executives often agree on these plans to avoid internal commercial allegations.

Under the plan, HUANG can sell up to 6 million shares before the end of this year. At the current stock price, Huang leaves the right track to earn more than $ 900 million.

Huang’s net value is estimated at $ 138 billion, according to Forms.

The market value of NVIDIA has increased to $ 3.8 trillion within a few years, as companies and national countries flowed billions of dollars in the infrastructure behind artificial intelligence.

A number of other senior executives in NVIDIA also takes it from the company’s growth.

This includes a long -term member of the Board of Directors Mark Stevens, a former administrative partner in Sikoya Capital and was one of the first investors in Nafidia. On June 2, he announced that he would sell up to 4 million shares, at a value of $ 550 million, and since then he sold 288 million dollars.

The CEO of NVIDIA World Field Operations Company, Jay Puri-who is an old warrior in the company that sent Huang on trips to China to meet officials-sold shares worth $ 25 million on Wednesday.

Two other members of the Board of Directors, Tench Coxe and Broke Seawell, moved to the sale, with Coxe emptying about $ 143 million on June 9 and Seawell about $ 48 million this month.

Cox, the former manager of STTER Hill Ventures, is another member of the Board of Directors long ago who has been in the company from its early days. Huang participated in the establishment of the company in 1993 as a company for video game graphics cards at Denny’s Restaurant in San Jose.

SEAWELL, who joined the Board of Directors in 1997, is a partner at New Entertainment Associats and former CEO SNOPSYS Company Companyy.

NVIDIA shares have been recovered in recent weeks, with the restoration of the market value about 1.5 trillion in its lowest point in April. The stock achieved a great success after Deepseek in China and the new exporting controls of the United States on China’s artificial intelligence chips.