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What Satya Nadella says in public, and what their own SEC filings show they own.

Satya Nadella

Satya Nadella

Chairman & Chief Executive Officer · Microsoft Corporation

CEO since 2014, Chairman since 2021. Led Microsoft's transformation to cloud-first, AI-first strategy. Oversaw Azure growth, OpenAI partnership, and Activision Blizzard acquisition.

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What they own

Ownership

Skin in the game
11/ 70
Level 1Steward

Nadella owns about 0% of Microsoft Corporation, worth $536.0M at the last close.

SEC filings
92
Stake 1.0M reported shares ≈ 0.0% of shares outstanding — no 13G on file, so an estimate 4/35
Founder Not assessed — whether they founded the company has not been researched Not assessed
Tenure No start date on record, so tenure scores nothing 0/10
Track record Not assessed — their prior companies have not been researched Not assessed
Direction Net seller — 86,525 shares ($43.4M) sold in the last year 0/15
Discipline 2 late Form 4s in 92 filings 7/10

Nobody has researched this person's career yet, so founder and track record are left out of the score and of the total above.

Score = stake band (35) + founder (15) + tenure (10) + track record (15) + 12-month direction (−10…15) + filing discipline (10). An axis we have not researched is left out of the score and of the total it is shown over. Every input links to a filing or to our own research; the bands are ours.

Reported · Forms 3, 4, 5 1.0M Every lot on the person's own filings, as of Sep 1, 2026
Last open-market trade Sale · $43.4M Sep 1, 2026 · 86,525 shares at $501.46 avg · under a 10b5-1 plan
Paper trail 2 late filings Form 4 covering a 2023-03-23 grant or award in STARBUCKS CORP was filed 2023-03-29, 4 business days later; Section 16 allows two.
Reported Microsoft Corporation shares Forms 3, 4 and 5 · as of 2026-09-01
01M2M3M 2011201220132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026 Sep 2026: net −86,525 shares across 1 movement (largest: sale −86,525)Aug 2026: net +217,876 shares across 2 movements (largest: award +178,622)Nov 2025: net −3,977 shares across 1 movement (largest: gift −3,977) 1.0M

Dots mark the months the activity below moved the line. Hover one for that month's net move, how many movements it folds and the largest.

How the stake is held
SecurityHeld viaShares
Common StockDirect486,762
Common StockGRAT 26-1116,300
Common StockGRAT109,720
Common StockGRAT 25-2103,985
Common StockGRAT 26-3101,459
Common StockGRAT 26-258,270
Common StockGRAT 25-151,450
Common Stockfamily LLC16,996
Reported as of 2026-09-011,044,942
Held directly
47%
Vehicles
7 trusts or entities
Last filing
Sep 2, 2026
Activity · last 12 months 4 events folded from 11 filing lines · Every filing on EDGAR ↗
DateTypeWhat happenedSharesPriceValueNote
Sep 1, 2026 Sale Open-market sale across 8 lots, $498.24–$505.20 −86,525 $501.46 avg $43.4M under a 10b5-1 plan
Aug 31, 2026 Award Grant or award +178,622 — —
Aug 31, 2026 Tax Shares withheld for tax −70,465 $513.54 $36.2M
Nov 10, 2025 Gift Gift −3,977 — —
Every issuer Satya Nadella files as an insider of
CompanyRoleReportedBeneficial% of class
MSFT MICROSOFT CORP This page Chief Executive Officer 1,044,942
2026-09-01		 — —
SBUX STARBUCKS CORP Director 27,682
2024-03-13		 — —
RVBD Riverbed Technology, Inc. Director 11,400
2013-05-22		 — —

Reported is every lot on the person's own Forms 3, 4 and 5 — direct and through trusts. Beneficial is the figure stated on the latest Schedule 13D/G cover page, which can exclude shares the person disclaims and include options exercisable within 60 days, so the two are never added together.

Paper trail

92 filings under CIK 0001513142 · captured 2026-09-05 · All filings on EDGAR ↗

On the record with shareholders

Earnings calls

  1. Q4 FY2026 Jul 29, 2026 Nadella spent the call arguing that the enterprise should own its own learning loop rather than rent one, and that Microsoft wins by making every model swappable underneath it — keep the harness, memory and context outside any one model family, mix frontier models with cheap ones, and train your own where you must. He backed it with the year's scale numbers ($331B revenue, Azure past $100B, Microsoft Cloud past $214B), with the build behind them (31 new data centers in the quarter, 88 for the year, another gigawatt added, capacity on track to roughly double in two years), and with adoption counts meant to show the loop is already running — 30 million paid Copilot seats, nearly 40 million agents registered on Agent 365, one in three GitHub pull requests now involving an agent. He conceded one business outright: Xbox is being reset, with growth promised only in fiscal 2027. Read the call · 9 quotes →
In their own words

Podcasts, interviews & articles

10 recorded appearances

2026

2025

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