Bill Gates cleared Microsoft's stock? Non-existent, absolutely non-existent The Gates Foundation is selling stocks But what many people don't know is that the foundation's holdings were donated by Bill Gates for charitable purposes. According to FactSet data, Bill Gates' current personal shareholding value is still $43 billion. All the stocks sold this time are for charity and comprehensive strategic transformation. Gates mentioned last year that a single high concentration of stock holdings is not conducive to quick monetization, and called for an increase in the amount and speed of charitable donations from the foundation. It's not that Bill Gates is not optimistic about Microsoft, and Wall Street's Ackerman and Whale Rock both increased their holdings in the first quarter. Sometimes we really can't be misled by news.