Mo Brooks’s disclosed stock trades — and what copying them returned

Mo Brooks (House) has disclosed 26 stock trades under the STOCK Act, from Oct 20, 2014 to Aug 17, 202218 buys and 8 sells, read straight from the official filings. The median gap between a trade and the public finding out was 15 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 Mo Brooks’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 (Feb 23, 2016Aug 11, 2026). Fees on, position sizes equal — a filing never discloses the real amount, only a band.

Copy-return, total+381.7%
S&P 500 over the same window+375.7%
Difference+6.0%
Annualized over 10.5 years+16.2% vs +16.1% +0.1% a year against the index
Deepest fall along the way-33.7%
Positions that closed ahead88%
Disclosed buys / actually copied18 / 16

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

Most-traded tickers

T (4) · D (4) · PFE (3) · TCX (3) · VZ (2) · BRK.B (2) · AATC (1) · TFC (1) · CSCO (1) · VTRS (1)

Recent filings

The latest 26 disclosed trades, newest filing first. Both dates are shown because the gap between them is the whole story.

TickerTypeTradedDisclosedLagAmount band
AATCBuyJul 22, 2022Aug 17, 202226d$1,001 - $15,000
VZSellJul 22, 2022Aug 17, 202226d$1,001 - $15,000
TSellOct 12, 2021May 11, 2022211d$1,001 - $15,000
VZPartial sellApr 11, 2022Apr 26, 202215d$1,001 - $15,000
PFESellAug 16, 2021Oct 14, 202159d$15,001 - $50,000
TBuyOct 12, 2021Oct 14, 20212d$1,001 - $15,000
DBuySep 29, 2021Oct 14, 202115d$15,001 - $50,000
BRK.BBuyMar 24, 2021Apr 20, 202127d$1,001 - $15,000
TFCSellFeb 8, 2021Feb 16, 20218d$1,001 - $15,000
TSellFeb 8, 2021Feb 16, 20218d$1,001 - $15,000
CSCOSellFeb 8, 2021Feb 16, 20218d$1,001 - $15,000
VTRSSellDec 1, 2020Jan 26, 202156d$1,001 - $15,000
PFEBuySep 16, 2020Nov 8, 202053d$1,001 - $15,000
PFEBuyJul 1, 2020Jul 11, 202010d$1,001 - $15,000
DBuyJun 1, 2020Jul 11, 202040d$15,001 - $50,000
DBuyJun 8, 2020Jul 11, 202033d$15,001 - $50,000
DBuyApr 29, 2020May 22, 202023d$15,001 - $50,000
BRK.BBuyMay 25, 2018Jun 16, 201822d$15,001 - $50,000
KOBuySep 19, 2016Oct 10, 201621d$1,001 - $15,000
TBuyOct 10, 2016Oct 10, 20160d$1,001 - $15,000
TCXBuySep 28, 2016Oct 10, 201612d$1,001 - $15,000
TCXBuyAug 12, 2016Aug 25, 201613d$1,001 - $15,000
WFCBuyAug 23, 2016Aug 25, 20162d$1,001 - $15,000
TCXBuyFeb 16, 2016Feb 22, 20166d$1,001 - $15,000
SDLPBuyNov 3, 2014Nov 3, 20140d$1,001 - $15,000
DRADBuyOct 20, 2014Oct 20, 20140d$1,001 - $15,000

Full history, sorting and the CSV export live in Pulse. Open Congress in Pulse.

Hear about the next filing the day it lands

A filing is only useful in the days after it appears — exactly when nobody is watching the disclosure sites. Follow Mo Brooks in Pulse and you get an email as soon as their next report is parsed: the trades in it, both dates, and how long they sat on it.

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.