Mark Zuckerberg sells Meta shares worth $428 million. Know why stock prices plummeted

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Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg sold the shares of his company every day during November and December last year..

In the meantime, the price of Meta shares went up by 194%..

The stock sales of Meta boss are subject to the federal capital gains tax of approximately 24%, and an additional 13.3% state tax in California, where Zuckerberg maintains a $37 million estate...

Besides, Zuckerbergs peer in the tech world, Marc Benioff also sold shares nearly every day in the second half of 2023..

Meta shares plummeted to a seven-year low in 2022 after Zuckerberg spent billions on a widely panned shift toward the metaverse...

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