Nancy Pelosi stock trades: what was bought and how it did

Nancy Pelosi (D-CA, House) has disclosed 21 priced stock buys since 2020, averaging +13.3% per buy under Hillscore's Composite score — ranking 34 of 60.

What the data shows

• Their strongest disclosed buy on a three-month view was AVGO (2025-06-20), up +38.0% three months on.
• The weakest was PYPL (2022-01-21), down -47.4% over the same window.
• AAPL is their most frequently disclosed holding, appearing in 10 separate filings.
• Their disclosed buying is concentrated in Technology, which accounts for 57% of their priced trades.
• 14 of their buys are marked Cluster. A buy is marked Cluster when at least one other tracked member of Congress bought the same stock within 30 days of it, regardless of committee membership. What that means.

Against their sectors

The three questions the site asks of Congress as a whole, asked of Nancy Pelosi: every buy from the last five years, measured three months after purchase against the stock's own sector ETF over the same period. How the groups are defined.

Their positions against the same money in their sectors

The solid line is how Nancy Pelosi's positions performed, week by week, over the last five years. The dashed line puts the same money, on the same dates, into each stock's sector ETF instead. Where the solid line runs above the dashed one, their picks were beating their sectors. Both are time-weighted: each week's return is measured across the positions held right through it and chained onto the last, so buying more never moves a line on the day it happens. Sales are matched oldest-first and a sold position is fixed at what it went out for. Only positions whose sector has a benchmark are included, on both lines.

Against their sectors, by type of trade

Each line is already net of its own sector ETFs: above zero, that group of trades was beating its sectors; below, trailing them. Where each line ends today is shown in the rankings. Groups with fewer than five positions are left out, since one or two trades would swing the line.

Estimated profit

Money made rather than percentage returned, across the 43 positions we can match and price.

How this is worked out. Buys and sells in the same stock are matched oldest-first into positions, so a sale closes the earliest purchase still open. Each position's gain is its size multiplied by the move between the closing price on the day it was bought and the closing price on the day it was sold — or today's close if it is still held. Realised totals the positions Nancy Pelosi has closed, Still held the paper gain on those left open, and Amount committed is what all of them cost to buy.

Every figure here is an estimate, which is what the “c.” stands for. Filings disclose amount bands, never exact sums, so each trade is counted at the midpoint of its band — a $1,001–$15,000 buy as $8,000. For a member trading mostly in the widest bands the true total could be several times larger, or a fraction of what is shown, so these are rounded hard rather than given to the dollar. Percentages elsewhere on this page survive that imprecision far better, because the ratio between entry and exit price stays right even when the size attached to it is wrong. That is why they lead and this does not.

Return at each checkpoint

Each buy's return that many days after its own purchase date. A buy sold between checkpoints counts at each checkpoint it was still held for, then at its sale price in the first checkpoint after the sale, and in none after that. Figures are split into all buys, Notable and everything else. Notable covers buys in a sector one of Nancy Pelosi's own committees oversees; everything else sits in the last column. Buy counts are in brackets: where the flagged column rests on a handful of trades, treat it as an observation rather than a pattern. These are a reference view and don't feed the Composite score above.

Recent disclosed trades

What Nancy Pelosi disclosed, and what we score

Everything filed in the last five years, by instrument. Only purchases of common stock carry a return: the rest are disclosed here because leaving them out would make the scored figures look like the whole picture.

Values are the midpoints of the disclosed bands, which is all a filing gives — never an exact figure, and never the price paid. Sales of positions we never saw bought cannot be scored because there is no purchase to measure from; they are exits from holdings that predate our data.

Options trades

Nancy Pelosi disclosed 26 options trades in this period. None is scored: the premium paid is not disclosed, so there is no cost to measure a return from. The figures below are the stock's move after the trade date, not the contract's return. Buy and Sell mean the contract was acquired or disposed of. The contract terms themselves — call or put, strike and expiry — are set out in the table further down, read from the original filings. Why that distinction matters.

Option contracts, from the original filings

Our data supplier gives us the ticker and the amount band for an options trade, and nothing else. Nancy Pelosi's filings with the House Clerk describe every transaction in full, so for this member — and only this member — we read the filings directly and publish the terms. Most members leave the description blank: across a sample of 27, only 11% of transactions carried one. Where a member says more, we show more.

"Stock vs strike" is not a profit, and is not the figure on the options page. That one asks how far below the market each strike was set on the day the contract was bought — 44% on average, which is what a deep in-the-money call is. This one asks where the stock finished against the strike, at the other end of the contract, and divides the other way round. Bloom Energy's $100 strike was 40% under the stock when bought and the stock is 189% over it now; both describe the same contract. For a contract that has run its course it is how far the stock sat above or below the strike on the day it ended — the day it was exercised, where a filing names one, and the expiry otherwise. For one still open — most of these expire in 2027 — it is today's price, which will move again before the contract matters. Each row says which it is. Every one of these was already above its strike on the day it was bought — the "stock when bought" column shows it — so most of that gap was paid for in the premium. The premium is never disclosed, which is why no return appears here and why these trades are excluded from Nancy Pelosi's score.

What happens when one is exercised. Exercising delivers real shares, and those are scored like any other holding — from the market price on the day they arrived, which is what the trades table above shows, marked "Exercised call". It is not a purchase decision and the cost was not that price, so the label stays with it. The alternative, leaving the shares out, would strand the sale when they are sold and close an unrelated holding in its place, which would be the worse error.

The pattern behind these contracts is set out in Nancy Pelosi's options trades, scored.

Every figure is in the money of its own date. Prices come from a series restated for splits, which makes it comparable with itself and with nothing written down at the time: Nvidia in September 2022 reads as $13.20 there, against the $132 it actually changed hands at. So each price here is put back on the footing of the day it belongs to, and each strike is shown as the filing gives it — a Broadcom call struck at $800 beside the $1,592 the stock cost that day, not beside $159.

Where a split falls between the two prices, they are in different money and the row says so. Palo Alto reads $371.97 when bought and $186.78 when exercised, which looks like a stock that halved; the two-for-one in December 2024 is the whole of the difference, and in the money it was bought in it ended at $373.56. A split does not damage the option: the clearing house halves the strike and doubles the contracts, so the position is carried across intact — which is why the strike is shown both as filed and as it stood afterwards, and why the exercise delivered the share count it did. "vs strike" compares the two on one basis throughout, so it is unaffected either way.

How the exercise is matched. A filing does not just say a contract was exercised — it names the purchase, in the form "exercised 50 call options purchased 1/14/25 at a strike price of $150". We pair the two on the underlying and that quoted purchase date, so the exercise row and the original contract are the same position seen twice. The 50 Alphabet calls bought on 14 January 2025 at a $150 strike were exercised on 16 January 2026 into 5,000 shares, and the filing says so in both places. Nothing here is inferred from price movements.

Questions

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Data last updated 31 October 2026.