Pat Roberts’s disclosed stock trades — and what copying them returned

Pat Roberts (Senate) has disclosed 445 stock trades under the STOCK Act, from Jan 5, 2015 to Jan 14, 2021279 buys and 166 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 Pat Roberts’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 (Jan 6, 2015Aug 11, 2026). Fees on, position sizes equal — a filing never discloses the real amount, only a band.

Copy-return, total+375.1%
S&P 500 over the same window+367.3%
Difference+7.8%
Annualized over 11.6 years+14.4% vs +14.2% +0.2% a year against the index
Deepest fall along the way-33.1%
Positions that closed ahead64%
Disclosed buys / actually copied279 / 253

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

Most-traded tickers

NFLX (49) · AAPL (45) · BA (27) · NVDA (27) · BAC (24) · AMZN (23) · NOC (19) · FB (17) · COST (13) · ETY (13)

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
DISBuyNov 10, 2020Jan 14, 202165d$1,001 - $15,000
BABuyNov 16, 2020Jan 14, 202159d$15,001 - $50,000
DALBuyNov 16, 2020Jan 14, 202159d$1,001 - $15,000
WBuyNov 17, 2020Jan 14, 202158d$15,001 - $50,000
NVDASellNov 4, 2020Jan 14, 202171d$15,001 - $50,000
BASellNov 9, 2020Jan 14, 202166d$15,001 - $50,000
COSTSellNov 4, 2020Jan 14, 202171d$15,001 - $50,000
COSTBuyNov 24, 2020Jan 14, 202151d$15,001 - $50,000
VBuyNov 16, 2020Jan 14, 202159d$15,001 - $50,000
FBBuyAug 31, 2020Jan 14, 2021136d$15,001 - $50,000
ZMBuyDec 2, 2020Dec 31, 202029d$15,001 - $50,000
AAPLPartial sellDec 16, 2020Dec 31, 202015d$100,001 - $250,000
AAPLBuyDec 22, 2020Dec 31, 20209d$15,001 - $50,000
COSTBuyDec 22, 2020Dec 31, 20209d$15,001 - $50,000
BASellDec 4, 2020Dec 31, 202027d$15,001 - $50,000
TSLABuyDec 7, 2020Dec 31, 202024d$1,001 - $15,000
BABuyDec 7, 2020Dec 31, 202024d$15,001 - $50,000
TSLABuyDec 11, 2020Dec 31, 202020d$1,001 - $15,000
TSLASellDec 21, 2020Dec 31, 202010d$1,001 - $15,000
WSellDec 21, 2020Dec 31, 202010d$50,001 - $100,000
ETYPartial sellDec 21, 2020Dec 31, 202010d$100,001 - $250,000
EXPIBuyDec 21, 2020Dec 31, 202010d$1,001 - $15,000
NVDABuyDec 21, 2020Dec 31, 202010d$50,001 - $100,000
BABuyDec 21, 2020Dec 31, 202010d$15,001 - $50,000
SQBuyDec 22, 2020Dec 31, 20209d$15,001 - $50,000
PLUGBuyDec 22, 2020Dec 31, 20209d$1,001 - $15,000
BABuyDec 22, 2020Dec 31, 20209d$15,001 - $50,000
DISBuyNov 10, 2020Dec 3, 202023d$1,001 - $15,000
DALBuyNov 16, 2020Dec 3, 202017d$1,001 - $15,000
WBuyNov 17, 2020Dec 3, 202016d$15,001 - $50,000
NVDASellNov 4, 2020Dec 3, 202029d$15,001 - $50,000
BASellNov 9, 2020Dec 3, 202024d$15,001 - $50,000
COSTSellNov 4, 2020Dec 3, 202029d$15,001 - $50,000
COSTBuyNov 24, 2020Dec 3, 20209d$15,001 - $50,000
VBuyNov 16, 2020Dec 3, 202017d$15,001 - $50,000
BABuyNov 16, 2020Dec 3, 202017d$15,001 - $50,000
NVAXSellOct 13, 2020Nov 5, 202023d$1,001 - $15,000
BBYSellOct 13, 2020Nov 5, 202023d$1,001 - $15,000
AAPLBuySep 3, 2020Sep 30, 202027d$15,001 - $50,000
MSFTBuySep 3, 2020Sep 30, 202027d$15,001 - $50,000
MSFTSellSep 4, 2020Sep 30, 202026d$50,001 - $100,000
ZMBuySep 9, 2020Sep 30, 202021d$15,001 - $50,000
AAPLBuySep 9, 2020Sep 30, 202021d$15,001 - $50,000
WBuySep 16, 2020Sep 30, 202014d$15,001 - $50,000
NVDASellSep 4, 2020Sep 30, 202026d$15,001 - $50,000
TSLASellSep 1, 2020Sep 30, 202029d$50,001 - $100,000
AAPLBuySep 2, 2020Sep 30, 202028d$50,001 - $100,000
AAPLBuySep 3, 2020Sep 30, 202027d$15,001 - $50,000
NVDASellSep 4, 2020Sep 30, 202026d$15,001 - $50,000
BYNDSellSep 4, 2020Sep 30, 202026d$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.