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Amazon crossed $3 trillion in market capitalization for the first time on Monday, capping a blowout earnings week. Within the same news cycle, founder Jeff Bezos filed to sell roughly $4 billion of his own shares under a pre-scheduled trading plan, and CNBC’s Jim Cramer summed up the optics on X: “Cant begrudge Bezos for selling $4 billion shares…but what a buzzkill.”
The $3 Trillion Moment
Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN | AMZN Price Prediction) closed at $284.02 on Monday, August 3, 2026, up 4.58% for the day, pushing the retailer into the four-comma club alongside Apple, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Alphabet. The stock is up 16.33% over the past month and 25.40% year-to-date, and has climbed roughly 20.6% since the July 30 earnings report. For context, Apple sits at $303.42 and Microsoft at $487.65. AWS reaccelerated hard and analysts fixated on a $496 billion AWS order backlog disclosed alongside the earnings report.