Greg Gianforte’s disclosed stock trades — and what copying them returned

Greg Gianforte (House) has disclosed 697 stock trades under the STOCK Act, from Jul 19, 2017 to Dec 29, 2020329 buys and 368 sells, read straight from the official filings. The median gap between a trade and the public finding out was 20 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 Greg Gianforte’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 (Aug 8, 2017Aug 11, 2026). Fees on, position sizes equal — a filing never discloses the real amount, only a band.

Copy-return, total+239.4%
S&P 500 over the same window+258.9%
Difference-19.5%
Annualized over 9 years+14.5% vs +15.2% -0.7% a year against the index
Deepest fall along the way-35.4%
Positions that closed ahead64%
Disclosed buys / actually copied329 / 233

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 Greg Gianforte’s own return — the disclosure lag means a copier never got their entry price.

Most-traded tickers

IFNNY (12) · VSAT (10) · CXW (9) · AMN (7) · KMPR (7) · EVH (7) · AYI (7) · SNA (7) · WAGE (7) · CHL (6)

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
CHLSellDec 21, 2020Dec 29, 20208d$100,001 - $250,000
WIXBuyDec 1, 2020Dec 23, 202022d$1,001 - $15,000
WWBuyDec 15, 2020Dec 23, 20208d$100,001 - $250,000
VSATBuyDec 18, 2020Dec 23, 20205d$100,001 - $250,000
OSWBuyDec 15, 2020Dec 23, 20208d$100,001 - $250,000
IWNSellDec 18, 2020Dec 23, 20205d$250,001 - $500,000
IFNNYPartial sellDec 7, 2020Dec 23, 202016d$50,001 - $100,000
CATMSellDec 17, 2020Dec 23, 20206d$1,001 - $15,000
AZNBuyDec 1, 2020Dec 23, 202022d$1,001 - $15,000
VSATPartial sellNov 16, 2020Dec 3, 202017d$1,001 - $15,000
IWNBuyNov 16, 2020Dec 3, 202017d$1,001 - $15,000
STAYBuyNov 17, 2020Dec 3, 202016d$50,001 - $100,000
STAYBuyNov 18, 2020Dec 3, 202015d$15,001 - $50,000
JAPSYPartial sellNov 13, 2020Dec 2, 202019d$1,001 - $15,000
IPXHYPartial sellNov 13, 2020Dec 2, 202019d$1,001 - $15,000
HSNGYPartial sellNov 13, 2020Dec 2, 202019d$1,001 - $15,000
CAJPartial sellNov 13, 2020Dec 2, 202019d$1,001 - $15,000
TOTPartial sellNov 13, 2020Dec 2, 202019d$15,001 - $50,000
IXBuyNov 13, 2020Dec 2, 202019d$15,001 - $50,000
EQNRPartial sellNov 13, 2020Dec 2, 202019d$15,001 - $50,000
AGESYBuyNov 13, 2020Dec 2, 202019d$15,001 - $50,000
AEGPartial sellNov 13, 2020Dec 2, 202019d$1,001 - $15,000
WWPartial sellNov 12, 2020Dec 2, 202020d$100,001 - $250,000
WOPEYPartial sellNov 13, 2020Dec 2, 202019d$1,001 - $15,000
WIXBuyNov 13, 2020Dec 2, 202019d$15,001 - $50,000
WJRYYPartial sellNov 13, 2020Dec 2, 202019d$15,001 - $50,000
VSATPartial sellNov 12, 2020Dec 2, 202020d$100,001 - $250,000
TRYIYPartial sellNov 13, 2020Dec 2, 202019d$15,001 - $50,000
TEVABuyNov 13, 2020Dec 2, 202019d$15,001 - $50,000
TEFPartial sellNov 13, 2020Dec 2, 202019d$1,001 - $15,000
SWRAYPartial sellNov 13, 2020Dec 2, 202019d$15,001 - $50,000
SMFGPartial sellNov 13, 2020Dec 2, 202019d$15,001 - $50,000
SOMMYPartial sellNov 13, 2020Dec 2, 202019d$15,001 - $50,000
SKFRYBuyNov 13, 2020Dec 2, 202019d$15,001 - $50,000
RYCEYPartial sellNov 13, 2020Dec 2, 202019d$1,001 - $15,000
ORANPartial sellNov 13, 2020Dec 2, 202019d$15,001 - $50,000
OMVKYBuyNov 13, 2020Dec 2, 202019d$15,001 - $50,000
NINOYPartial sellNov 13, 2020Dec 2, 202019d$15,001 - $50,000
NWGBuyNov 13, 2020Dec 2, 202019d$15,001 - $50,000
MITSYBuyNov 13, 2020Dec 2, 202019d$1,001 - $15,000
MFGPPartial sellNov 13, 2020Dec 2, 202019d$1,001 - $15,000
VOPKYBuyNov 13, 2020Dec 2, 202019d$15,001 - $50,000
JAPAYBuyNov 13, 2020Dec 2, 202019d$50,001 - $100,000
ISNPYPartial sellNov 13, 2020Dec 2, 202019d$1,001 - $15,000
INGPartial sellNov 13, 2020Dec 2, 202019d$1,001 - $15,000
HHCPartial sellNov 12, 2020Dec 2, 202020d$100,001 - $250,000
FINMYPartial sellNov 13, 2020Dec 2, 202019d$1,001 - $15,000
EPartial sellNov 13, 2020Dec 2, 202019d$1,001 - $15,000
EJPRYPartial sellNov 13, 2020Dec 2, 202019d$15,001 - $50,000
CRARYBuyNov 13, 2020Dec 2, 202019d$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.