Trump traded over $50 million in 'Magnificent 7' stocks last quarter, loading up on Apple and Google and selling Tesla

Trump traded over $50 million in 'Magnificent 7' stocks last quarter, loading up on Apple and Google and selling Tesla Ben Werschkul · Washington Correspondent Updated Sun, May 24, 2026 at 3:58 PM GMT+2 3 min read GOOG President Trump made around 100 different trades of “Magnificent Seven” stocks in the first quarter of 2026, a recent ethics disclosure shows, executing millions of dollars in transactions even as he was meeting with and often promoting these top tech companies. The trades were valued over $50 million in total. The president, on net, loaded up on Apple ( AAPL ) and Alphabet ( GOOG ), while selling more Tesla ( TSLA ) stock than he bought, a Yahoo Finance analysis found.

His account also executed more than a dozen transactions each of Nvidia ( NVDA ), Meta Platforms ( META ), Microsoft ( MSFT ), and Amazon ( AMZN ), rounding out the Magnificent Seven. The disclosure only indicates stock sales in broad ranges, meaning it was unclear whether the president ended the quarter with more or fewer shares of many of these companies’ stock in his portfolio. President Trump shakes hands with Apple CEO Tim Cook during a meeting with business leaders in Tokyo in 2025.

(Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) The Magnificent Seven trading patterns were part of Trump’s first quarter ethics disclosure , encompassing more than 3,700 trades made under the president's name. Trump’s account is managed by his company, the Trump Organization, which said trades are overseen by third-party financial institutions without any input from Trump or his family. “Neither President Trump, his family, nor The Trump Organization plays any role in selecting, directing, or approving specific investments,” the Trump Organization said after the disclosure.

“They receive no advance notice of trading activity and provide no input regarding investment decisions or portfolio management of any kind. ” The Trump Organization didn’t respond to questions from Yahoo Finance about the Magnificent Seven trades in particular. The trading activity has raised conflict of interest concerns after the disclosure revealed trades being executed in proximity to the president discussing the companies and major news being revealed.

“Presidents are not supposed to be day traders,” watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington said of the disclosures . One notable Magnificent Seven trade was a purchase of at least $1 million in Nvidia stock on Feb. 10, about one week before Nvidia announced a strategic partnership with Meta .

An array of Magnificent 7 transactions Two stocks the president most clearly added to his portfolio in the first quarter were Apple and Alphabet. Trump’s Apple transactions include eight purchases against just one sale, leading to net purchases of between $2 million and $7. 2 million.

The Alphabet transactions in this period were all purchases and represented another $1. 5 million to $3. 1 million.

Tesla, meanwhile, was a Magnificent Seven stock that Trump definitely sold in the first quarter, according to the records. The president sold somewhere between $30,000 and $330,000 in Tesla during the quarter. Story Continues All told, millions of dollars’ worth of shares flowed in and out of the president’s account over the course of the quarter.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk gestures next to Apple CEO Tim Cook, Blackstone CEO Stephen A. Schwarzman, and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang prior to a welcome ceremony for President Trump at the Great Hall of the People on May 14 in China. (Alex Wong/Getty Images) Feb.

10 was a particularly notable trading day for the president. In addition to a sizable purchase of Nvidia, the records show Trump sold between $10 million and $50 million in Microsoft and Amazon stock in two separate transactions, each worth between $5 million and $25 million. Many of the trades of the Magnificent Seven — and across Trump’s overall portfolio — were also noted as “unsolicited” trades.

The standard definition of an unsolicited trade is a transaction initiated by the client, with the broker’s role as simply carrying it out. The Trump Organization didn’t respond to a request to clarify how its denial of any Trump family involvement in the trades squared with the scores of unsolicited trades in the disclosure. Twenty-seven of the trades of Magnificent Seven stocks were listed as unsolicited, including three purchases of more than $1 million each.

This story has been updated. Ben Werschkul is a Washington correspondent for Yahoo Finance.