William H. Gates III

Major Shareholder (10%+) · REPUBLIC SERVICES, INC.

Rank #7 SEC EDGAR (United States) ↗ Files from United States

Details

Beneficial owner of more than 10% of a class of sharesUtilitiesRSGSEC CIK 0000902012

Computed from SEC EDGAR filings and closing prices — not copied from any wealth ranking. Dataset . How we calculate this.

Disclosed holdings
$34.2B
1-day change
▼ 0.64%
Positions on file
4
issuers disclosed in Forms 3/4/5 and Schedules 13D/G

Disclosed holdings over time 53 weekly points

What the 4 currently disclosed positions would have been worth at each week’s closing price. A rising line means the shares got more valuable, not that this person bought more.

How the line is built

Share counts are as last reported to the SEC and held constant; only prices move.

2025-09-05$30.9B – $35.6B2026-09-04

Insider activity Oct 1, 2024 – Sep 11, 2025

William H. Gates III is recorded in filings to the U.S. SEC via EDGAR as beneficial owner of more than 10% of a class of shares, and reported 56 transactions between Oct 1, 2024 and Sep 11, 2025. The buy and sell totals below count only codes P, S.

Why the other codes are excluded

Share awards (A), shares withheld to pay tax (F), option exercises (M) and gifts (G) also appear in the table, but they are consequences of a pay package or a private transfer, not a decision to buy or sell on the open market. Counting them would turn this into a compensation ranking.

Open-market buys (code P)
$1.00M
1 purchase on file priced rows only
Open-market sales (code S)
$506.15M
54 sales on file priced rows only
All reported transactions
56
every code, including awards and exercises
Pattern
Net seller in the final 12 months of the window
last 12 months of the window

Reported transactions

Price 0.00 is a real reported figure on gifts (G) and share awards (A) — not a missing number. The 25 most recent rows are grouped into 11 lines by date, company and transaction type — open a line to see every lot with its own source link. We hold 56 on file in total. See the full history on EDGAR ↗

How to read this list

Every row is one line of one Form 4 or Form 5, with the filing it came from. Where the record carries no price at all we leave the cell empty instead of guessing one.

The shares and money on a grouped line add up only the lots listed inside that line, and only when every one of them carries the figure. Where a group mixes more than one reporting currency we leave the money blank rather than convert — no source publishes the rate that conversion would need.

  1. Evolv Technologies Holdings, Inc. EVLV S Open-market sale 776,236 shares $6.37M at $8.20 SEC filing ↗
  2. Evolv Technologies Holdings, Inc. EVLV S Open-market sale 694,464 shares $5.58M at $8.03 SEC filing ↗
  3. REPUBLIC SERVICES, INC. RSG P Open-market purchase 4,258 shares $1.00M at $234.91 SEC filing ↗
  4. ECOLAB INC. ECL S Open-market sale × 3 70,000 shares $17.22M
    The 3 lots that make up this line, each with the source behind it.
    Shares Price Value Filing
    116 $246.85 $28.6K SEC filing ↗
    52,965 $246.15 $13.04M SEC filing ↗
    16,919 $245.34 $4.15M SEC filing ↗
  5. ECOLAB INC. ECL S Open-market sale × 2 100,000 shares $24.28M
    The 2 lots that make up this line, each with the source behind it.
    Shares Price Value Filing
    28,249 $242.21 $6.84M SEC filing ↗
    71,751 $243.02 $17.44M SEC filing ↗
  6. ECOLAB INC. ECL S Open-market sale × 4 106,542 shares $25.70M
    The 4 lots that make up this line, each with the source behind it.
    Shares Price Value Filing
    44,960 $241.59 $10.86M SEC filing ↗
    52,684 $240.66 $12.68M SEC filing ↗
    1,200 $243.65 $292.4K SEC filing ↗
    7,698 $242.42 $1.87M SEC filing ↗
  7. ECOLAB INC. ECL S Open-market sale × 3 79,585 shares $19.46M
    The 3 lots that make up this line, each with the source behind it.
    Shares Price Value Filing
    8,785 $243.32 $2.14M SEC filing ↗
    42,460 $244.35 $10.38M SEC filing ↗
    28,340 $245.03 $6.94M SEC filing ↗
  8. ECOLAB INC. ECL S Open-market sale × 2 83,873 shares $20.63M
    The 2 lots that make up this line, each with the source behind it.
    Shares Price Value Filing
    72,725 $245.89 $17.88M SEC filing ↗
    11,148 $246.38 $2.75M SEC filing ↗
  9. ECOLAB INC. ECL S Open-market sale × 2 100,000 shares $24.52M
    The 2 lots that make up this line, each with the source behind it.
    Shares Price Value Filing
    74,049 $245.04 $18.14M SEC filing ↗
    25,951 $245.75 $6.38M SEC filing ↗
  10. ECOLAB INC. ECL S Open-market sale × 3 100,000 shares $24.81M
    The 3 lots that make up this line, each with the source behind it.
    Shares Price Value Filing
    10,535 $249.68 $2.63M SEC filing ↗
    81,253 $247.72 $20.13M SEC filing ↗
    8,212 $249.31 $2.05M SEC filing ↗
  11. ECOLAB INC. ECL S Open-market sale × 3 177,892 shares $44.37M
    The 3 lots that make up this line, each with the source behind it.
    Shares Price Value Filing
    17,611 $249.95 $4.40M SEC filing ↗
    114,465 $249.58 $28.57M SEC filing ↗
    45,816 $248.73 $11.40M SEC filing ↗

Disclosed holdings

Shares is the amount on the form; value is that amount times the closing price shown. Rows with no closing price are left blank, so they may add up to less than the headline figure.

What is not counted here

Each row is one filing you can open. Private companies, real estate, bonds and crypto are not in SEC insider filings and are therefore not counted here.

Equity positions disclosed to the SEC, with the source filing behind each row.
Issuer Ticker Security Shares Close Value Form Reported Filing
REPUBLIC SERVICES, INC. RSG Common stock 109,816,832 $222.71 $24.5B 4 EDGAR ↗
ECOLAB INC. ECL Common Stock (indirect) 29,178,741 $279.28 $8.1B 4 EDGAR ↗
AUTONATION, INC. AN Common stock 7,062,629 $212.36 $1.5B 4 EDGAR ↗
Evolv Technologies Holdings, Inc. EVLV Class A common stock 17,189,096 $5.00 $85.9M 4 EDGAR ↗

Other insiders at the same companies

People who also file with the SEC at a company where William H. Gates III reports shares.

Sharing a filing does not mean they work together day to day — it means both names appear on the same issuer’s insider record.

Coverage on this site

  1. Bill Gates Expresses Profound Regret Over “Foolish” Association with Jeffrey Epstein Amidst New Document Revelations
  2. Jeffrey Epstein Files Allege Bill Gates’ STI Cover-Up Attempt, Philanthropist’s Spokesperson Labels Claims “Absurd”
  3. Bill Gates Embraces Grandfatherhood as Daughter Jennifer Shares Heartfelt Birthday Tribute
  4. Bill Gates Calls for Climate Fight to Prioritize Human Suffering, Sparking Debate

Sources

The filings linked in the tables above are the sources for every figure on this page.

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Profile record last refreshed Sep 8, 2026.