Sara Jacobs’s disclosed stock trades — and what copying them returned

Sara Jacobs (House) has disclosed 33 stock trades under the STOCK Act, from Mar 12, 2021 to May 20, 20263 buys and 30 sells, read straight from the official filings. The median gap between a trade and the public finding out was 49 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 Sara Jacobs’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 (Mar 15, 2021Aug 11, 2026). Fees on, position sizes equal — a filing never discloses the real amount, only a band.

Copy-return, total+108.5%
S&P 500 over the same window+109.5%
Difference-1.0%
Annualized over 5.4 years+14.6% vs +14.7% -0.1% a year against the index
Deepest fall along the way-24.6%
Positions that closed ahead0%
Disclosed buys / actually copied3 / 3

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

Most-traded tickers

QCOM (2) · TTEK (2) · PAYC (2) · FSLR (2) · AAPL (1) · VZ (1) · UPS (1) · TSCO (1) · SYK (1) · ORA (1)

Recent filings

The latest 33 disclosed trades, newest filing first. Both dates are shown because the gap between them is the whole story.

TickerTypeTradedDisclosedLagAmount band
QCOMPartial sellMay 6, 2026May 20, 202614d$500,001 - $1,000,000
QCOMPartial sellMay 7, 2026May 20, 202613d$500,001 - $1,000,000
AAPLSellJul 6, 2021Aug 17, 202142d$100,001 - $250,000
VZSellApr 9, 2021May 28, 202149d$50,001 - $100,000
UPSSellApr 9, 2021May 28, 202149d$15,001 - $50,000
TSCOSellApr 9, 2021May 28, 202149d$15,001 - $50,000
TTEKSellApr 9, 2021May 28, 202149d$15,001 - $50,000
SYKSellApr 9, 2021May 28, 202149d$15,001 - $50,000
ORASellApr 9, 2021May 28, 202149d$15,001 - $50,000
NYTSellApr 9, 2021May 28, 202149d$50,001 - $100,000
CREESellApr 9, 2021May 28, 202149d$15,001 - $50,000
ANTMSellApr 9, 2021May 28, 202149d$50,001 - $100,000
VFCSellApr 9, 2021May 28, 202149d$15,001 - $50,000
ULSellApr 9, 2021May 28, 202149d$15,001 - $50,000
TRVSellApr 9, 2021May 28, 202149d$50,001 - $100,000
TSMSellApr 9, 2021May 28, 202149d$50,001 - $100,000
PAYCSellApr 9, 2021May 28, 202149d$15,001 - $50,000
OMCLSellApr 9, 2021May 28, 202149d$50,001 - $100,000
MRKSellApr 9, 2021May 28, 202149d$50,001 - $100,000
MKCSellApr 9, 2021May 28, 202149d$15,001 - $50,000
LINSellApr 9, 2021May 28, 202149d$50,001 - $100,000
LWSellApr 9, 2021May 28, 202149d$15,001 - $50,000
HXLSellApr 9, 2021May 28, 202149d$15,001 - $50,000
FSLRSellApr 9, 2021May 28, 202149d$15,001 - $50,000
AZNSellApr 9, 2021May 28, 202149d$15,001 - $50,000
AFLSellApr 9, 2021May 28, 202149d$50,001 - $100,000
PYPLPartial sellFeb 19, 2021Mar 12, 202121d$15,001 - $50,000
FSLRPartial sellFeb 19, 2021Mar 12, 202121d$1,001 - $15,000
ADISellFeb 19, 2021Mar 12, 202121d$50,001 - $100,000
TJXBuyFeb 19, 2021Mar 12, 202121d$15,001 - $50,000
TTEKBuyFeb 19, 2021Mar 12, 202121d$15,001 - $50,000
PAYCBuyFeb 19, 2021Mar 12, 202121d$15,001 - $50,000
ASMLPartial sellFeb 19, 2021Mar 12, 202121d$15,001 - $50,000

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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.