Bill Gates: 19 Caterpillar transactions (Bill & Melinda Gates (2024)

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How much of Caterpillar does Bill Gates own? ›

Bill Gates added to his holdings in McDonald's Corporation by 10.13%. His purchase prices were between $93.27 and $98.92, with an estimated average price of $96.07. The impact to his portfolio due to this purchase was 0.49%. His holdings were 10,872,500 shares as of 12/31/2013.

How Bill and Melinda Gates helped save 122m lives – and what they want to solve next. It was the biggest philanthropic gesture ever, the billionaire investor equivalent of Batman and Superman joining forces to fight world crime.

The new grants will be distributed through her organization, Pivotal Ventures, to groups such as the National Women's Law Center, the National Domestic Workers Alliance and the Center for Reproductive Rights.

Largest shareholders include Vanguard Group Inc, State Street Corp, BlackRock Inc., Capital World Investors, State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co, VTSMX - Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund Investor Shares, VFINX - Vanguard 500 Index Fund Investor Shares, Geode Capital Management, Llc, Fisher Asset Management, ...

Microsoft Corp (MSFT. O) co-founder Bill Gates' investment vehicle Cascade Investment LLC has become the largest shareholder in farm machinery maker Deere & Co (DE. N), with a 5% stake, according to a regulatory filing.

Bill Gates Costco Wholesale Corp

The first Costco Wholesale trade was made in Q3 2002. Since then Bill Gates bought shares ten more times and sold shares on four occasions. The investor sold all their shares in Q4 2012 and doesn't own any shares in Costco Wholesale anymore.

Bullish on this entire logistics and supply chain market, regardless of the competitive differences, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation now owns through Cascade Investment 1.53 million shares of FedEx Corp. This is worth $392 million.

Microsoft Corporation, founded in 1975 and headquartered in Redmond, WA, develops, manufactures, and sells both software and hardware to businesses and consumers. Microsoft is a mega-cap stock with a market capitalization of $3.1 trillion.

The majority of his financial assets are held by Cascade Investment LLC, an entity controlled by Gates to manage his investments. Although Cascade is not a public company, some of its investment activity must be disclosed to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

How many kids has Bill Gates saved? ›

Bill reports, “More children survived in 2015 than in 2014. More survived in 2014 than in 2013, and so on. If you add it all up, 122 million children under age five have been saved over the past 25 years.”

128.6 billion USD (2024)

Bill Gates / Net worth

In her op-ed, French Gates said she was once told to set her own agenda before someone else sets it — and that's why she chose to leave the Gates Foundation. She said naysayers about charitable efforts to empower women have frustrated her with their shortsightedness.

She came on as a marketing manager and developed multimedia products such as; Microsoft Cinemania, Publisher, Word, and Expedia.com. She was later promoted to General Manager of Information Products and held that position until she left Microsoft in 1996.

During their marriage, she was able to quit working her job to raise a family and focus on philanthropic endeavors. She currently has a net worth of about $10.2 billion. She received about $2 billion of that total amount in the form of stocks from Bill after their divorce.

BILL GATES: We have two dogs. One is Oreo and the other is Nilla. I will say I spend less time with the dogs than the kids do but I really like them (when they are not barking at night and not eating things they are not supposed to and when they are well house trained).

Caterpillar share holder equity for 2023 was $19.503B, a 22.73% increase from 2022. Caterpillar share holder equity for 2022 was $15.891B, a 3.78% decline from 2021. Caterpillar share holder equity for 2021 was $16.516B, a 7.4% increase from 2020.

Caterpillar has a market cap or net worth of $165.91 billion as of May 30, 2024. Its market cap has increased by 50.09% in one year.