Name: Congress stock trading statistics
Creator: OQRO
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Question 1

How many stock trades do members of Congress make?

Accepted Answer

Members of the House and Senate reported 8,880 stock transactions in 2025: 4,366 purchases and 4,487 sales, filed by 136 members. The typical report arrived 28 days after the trade.

Question 2

How soon must a member of Congress report a stock trade?

Accepted Answer

The STOCK Act requires a periodic transaction report within 30 days of learning of the trade and at most 45 days after it. In 2025, 13% of the reported trades were filed more than 45 days after the trade date.

Question 3

Which stocks do members of Congress trade the most?

Accepted Answer

Since 2021, the most-traded stocks in the reports are Microsoft (588 trades), Apple (381 trades), NVIDIA (357 trades), Alphabet (287 trades), Amazon (260 trades).

Question 4

Where does the data come from?

Accepted Answer

From the periodic transaction reports that members of the House and Senate file under the STOCK Act. Each transaction line is counted once. The amounts are reported in ranges, so OQRO counts trades, not dollars.

Year	Trades	Purchases	Sales	Members	Typical delay
2026 (so far)	4,340	2,534	1,768	109	28 days
2025	8,880	4,366	4,487	136	28 days
2024	3,677	1,905	1,742	124	26 days
2023	5,362	2,380	2,962	125	31 days
2022	4,085	2,148	1,917	134	26 days
2021	5,336	2,652	2,659	133	28 days

Company	Trades	Purchases	Sales	Members
Microsoft	588	286	302	83
Apple	381	171	210	84
NVIDIA	357	203	154	60
Alphabet	287	139	148	60
Amazon	260	159	101	69
Johnson & Johnson	186	99	85	52
Berkshire Hathaway	168	89	79	45
JPMorgan Chase	168	89	79	59
Home Depot	167	105	62	40
PayPal	166	57	109	34

Member	Trades	Purchases	Sales
Josh Gottheimer house	2,496	1,011	1,484
Gilbert Cisneros house	1,705	1,010	689
Lisa McClain house	1,442	733	709
Thomas H Tuberville senate	1,438	572	866
Daniel Goldman house	1,304	382	922
Thomas R Carper senate	859	417	438
Kathy Manning house	806	458	348
Kevin Hern house	766	491	259
Thomas Suozzi house	726	340	386
Alan Armstrong senate	707	656	50

Congress stock trading statistics

Reported trades per month

Year by year

The stocks Congress trades most, since 2021

The most active members, since 2021

Common questions

Where these figures come from