David Perdue’s disclosed stock trades — and what copying them returned

David Perdue (Senate) has disclosed 3375 stock trades under the STOCK Act, from Jun 4, 2015 to May 2, 20211578 buys and 1785 sells, read straight from the official filings. The median gap between a trade and the public finding out was 24 days — which is why every number below starts at the disclosure date, the earliest day anyone could actually have copied a trade.

What copying every disclosed buy would have returned

Our engine bought at the first opening price after each of David Perdue’s disclosed purchases became public, held until the matching sale was disclosed, and marked the book against simply holding the S&P 500 over the same window (Jun 5, 2015Aug 11, 2026). Fees on, position sizes equal — a filing never discloses the real amount, only a band.

Copy-return, total+381.4%
S&P 500 over the same window+343.1%
Difference+38.3%
Annualized over 11.2 years+15.1% vs +14.2% +0.8% a year against the index
Deepest fall along the way-41.9%
Positions that closed ahead69%
Disclosed buys / actually copied1578 / 1038

Read the fill count before the return: a figure built on a handful of copied positions is an anecdote, whatever it says. And a copy-return is not David Perdue’s own return — the disclosure lag means a copier never got their entry price.

Most-traded tickers

PFE (113) · DISCA (109) · CZR (77) · FDC (76) · WPX (70) · KN (69) · AAPL (66) · URBN (66) · FEYE (64) · LYV (59)

Recent filings

The latest 50 disclosed trades, newest filing first. Both dates are shown because the gap between them is the whole story.

TickerTypeTradedDisclosedLagAmount band
NSCSellApr 16, 2020May 2, 2021381d$1,001 - $15,000
NKESellApr 16, 2020May 2, 2021381d$1,001 - $15,000
PMSellApr 16, 2020May 2, 2021381d$1,001 - $15,000
PYPLSellApr 16, 2020May 2, 2021381d$1,001 - $15,000
MSFTSellApr 16, 2020May 2, 2021381d$50,001 - $100,000
LLYSellApr 16, 2020May 2, 2021381d$1,001 - $15,000
INTCSellApr 16, 2020May 2, 2021381d$1,001 - $15,000
JPMSellApr 16, 2020May 2, 2021381d$1,001 - $15,000
PGSellApr 16, 2020May 2, 2021381d$1,001 - $15,000
MRKSellApr 16, 2020May 2, 2021381d$1,001 - $15,000
SOSellApr 16, 2020May 2, 2021381d$1,001 - $15,000
VZSellApr 16, 2020May 2, 2021381d$1,001 - $15,000
WFCSellApr 16, 2020May 2, 2021381d$1,001 - $15,000
URISellApr 16, 2020May 2, 2021381d$1,001 - $15,000
SYYSellApr 16, 2020May 2, 2021381d$1,001 - $15,000
JNJSellApr 16, 2020May 2, 2021381d$1,001 - $15,000
BASellApr 16, 2020May 2, 2021381d$1,001 - $15,000
BXSellApr 16, 2020May 2, 2021381d$1,001 - $15,000
AFLSellApr 16, 2020May 2, 2021381d$1,001 - $15,000
TSellApr 16, 2020May 2, 2021381d$1,001 - $15,000
AAPLSellApr 16, 2020May 2, 2021381d$15,001 - $50,000
BPSellApr 16, 2020May 2, 2021381d$1,001 - $15,000
CATSellApr 16, 2020May 2, 2021381d$1,001 - $15,000
BMYSellApr 16, 2020May 2, 2021381d$1,001 - $15,000
GISSellApr 16, 2020May 2, 2021381d$1,001 - $15,000
HDSellApr 16, 2020May 2, 2021381d$15,001 - $50,000
CSellApr 16, 2020May 2, 2021381d$1,001 - $15,000
DDSellApr 16, 2020May 2, 2021381d$1,001 - $15,000
KOSellApr 16, 2020May 2, 2021381d$1,001 - $15,000
COPSellApr 16, 2020May 2, 2021381d$1,001 - $15,000
DISSellApr 16, 2020May 2, 2021381d$1,001 - $15,000
ETSellApr 15, 2020May 2, 2021382d$15,001 - $50,000
MPLXSellApr 15, 2020May 2, 2021382d$15,001 - $50,000
TRGPSellApr 15, 2020May 2, 2021382d$1,001 - $15,000
WMBSellApr 15, 2020May 2, 2021382d$15,001 - $50,000
SHLXSellApr 15, 2020May 2, 2021382d$1,001 - $15,000
PBASellApr 15, 2020May 2, 2021382d$1,001 - $15,000
ENBSellApr 15, 2020May 2, 2021382d$1,001 - $15,000
PAASellApr 15, 2020May 2, 2021382d$15,001 - $50,000
OKESellApr 15, 2020May 2, 2021382d$1,001 - $15,000
MMPSellApr 15, 2020May 2, 2021382d$15,001 - $50,000
TRPSellApr 15, 2020May 2, 2021382d$1,001 - $15,000
LNGSellApr 15, 2020May 2, 2021382d$15,001 - $50,000
EPDSellApr 15, 2020May 2, 2021382d$50,001 - $100,000
KMISellApr 15, 2020May 2, 2021382d$1,001 - $15,000
TCPSellApr 15, 2020May 2, 2021382d$1,001 - $15,000
SUNSellApr 15, 2020May 2, 2021382d$1,001 - $15,000
PSXPSellApr 15, 2020May 2, 2021382d$1,001 - $15,000
PAGPSellApr 15, 2020May 2, 2021382d$1,001 - $15,000
EAFSellApr 14, 2020May 2, 2021383d$1,001 - $15,000

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See plans All members and how the ranking works

Entries are at the first open AFTER the disclosure date — the earliest any copier could act. The member's own entry was up to 45 days earlier. Disclosed amounts are bands, not sizes; every position is sized at your chosen % of portfolio, which is not how the member sized it. Option purchases are copied as the underlying shares. A filing discloses no strike and no expiry, so an option cannot be mirrored — buying the stock is the closest a reader could get. It is 1.6% of all disclosed buys, but for some members it is a quarter to a half of everything they file, so their figure describes copying the filing rather than what the position itself did. Dividends are treated as reinvested (adjusted closes). Fees and taxes are not modeled. Positions are sized from equity at the time of each entry, so gains compound into later position sizes and most of the account sits in cash between filings. Read the drawdown next to the exposure figures: a portfolio that is mostly cash shows a small whole-portfolio drawdown even when its holdings fell hard. Absolute returns are model outputs, not achievable returns. Past disclosures are no promise of future filings — members stop trading, leave office, or file late in batches.