Mitchell McConnell’s disclosed stock trades — and what copying them returned

Mitchell McConnell (Senate) has disclosed 40 stock trades under the STOCK Act, from May 15, 2018 to Jun 30, 202636 buys and 4 sells, read straight from the official filings. The median gap between a trade and the public finding out was 13 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 Mitchell McConnell’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 (May 16, 2018Aug 11, 2026). Fees on, position sizes equal — a filing never discloses the real amount, only a band.

Copy-return, total+216.7%
S&P 500 over the same window+221.4%
Difference-4.7%
Annualized over 8.2 years+15.0% vs +15.2% -0.2% a year against the index
Deepest fall along the way-34.1%
Positions that closed ahead63%
Disclosed buys / actually copied36 / 36

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

Most-traded tickers

WFC (35) · LAZR (2) · KR (1) · IR (1) · VMC (1)

Recent filings

The latest 40 disclosed trades, newest filing first. Both dates are shown because the gap between them is the whole story.

TickerTypeTradedDisclosedLagAmount band
WFCBuyJun 1, 2026Jun 30, 202629d$1,001 - $15,000
WFCBuyMar 1, 2026Mar 19, 202618d$1,001 - $15,000
LAZRPartial sellDec 24, 2025Jan 13, 202620d$1,001 - $15,000
WFCBuyDec 1, 2025Dec 19, 202518d$1,001 - $15,000
WFCBuySep 1, 2025Sep 12, 202511d$1,001 - $15,000
LAZRPartial sellJun 26, 2025Jul 7, 202511d$15,001 - $50,000
WFCBuyJun 1, 2025Jun 19, 202518d$1,001 - $15,000
WFCBuyMar 3, 2025Mar 12, 20259d$1,001 - $15,000
WFCBuyDec 2, 2024Jan 4, 202533d$1,001 - $15,000
WFCBuySep 1, 2024Sep 16, 202415d$1,001 - $15,000
WFCBuyJun 4, 2024Jun 13, 20249d$1,001 - $15,000
WFCBuyMar 5, 2024Mar 19, 202414d$1,001 - $15,000
WFCBuyDec 5, 2023Dec 18, 202313d$1,001 - $15,000
WFCBuySep 1, 2023Sep 15, 202314d$1,001 - $15,000
WFCBuyJun 5, 2023Jun 14, 20239d$1,001 - $15,000
WFCBuyMar 3, 2023Mar 28, 202325d$1,001 - $15,000
WFCBuyDec 5, 2022Dec 29, 202224d$1,001 - $15,000
KRBuyNov 29, 2022Dec 29, 202230d$1,001 - $15,000
WFCBuySep 6, 2022Sep 26, 202220d$1,001 - $15,000
WFCBuyJun 3, 2022Jun 13, 202210d$1,001 - $15,000
WFCBuyMar 3, 2022Mar 14, 202211d$1,001 - $15,000
WFCBuyDec 3, 2021Dec 16, 202113d$1,001 - $15,000
WFCBuyJun 3, 2021Jun 7, 20214d$1,001 - $15,000
WFCBuyMar 3, 2021Mar 16, 202113d$1,001 - $15,000
WFCBuyDec 3, 2020Dec 7, 20204d$1,001 - $15,000
WFCBuySep 2, 2020Sep 11, 20209d$1,001 - $15,000
WFCBuyJun 3, 2020Jun 23, 202020d$1,001 - $15,000
WFCBuyMar 4, 2020Mar 11, 20207d$1,001 - $15,000
WFCBuyDec 4, 2019Dec 12, 20198d$1,001 - $15,000
WFCBuySep 1, 2019Sep 16, 201915d$1,001 - $15,000
WFCBuyJun 1, 2019Jun 21, 201920d$1,001 - $15,000
IRSellJun 3, 2019Jun 14, 201911d$250,001 - $500,000
VMCSellJun 3, 2019Jun 14, 201911d$250,001 - $500,000
WFCBuyMar 5, 2019Mar 6, 20191d$1,001 - $15,000
WFCBuyDec 5, 2018Dec 17, 201812d$1,001 - $15,000
WFCBuySep 6, 2018Sep 14, 20188d$1,001 - $15,000
WFCBuyJun 1, 2018Jun 13, 201812d$1,001 - $15,000
WFCBuySep 7, 2017May 15, 2018250d$1,001 - $15,000
WFCBuyDec 5, 2017May 15, 2018161d$1,001 - $15,000
WFCBuyMar 5, 2018May 15, 201871d$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.