Tommy Tuberville's stock trades, scored
Senator Tommy Tuberville of Alabama is one of the most active stock traders in Congress. His filings disclose 1,163 transactions, and 261 of them are purchases of common stock that can be priced and scored. That puts him 38 of 60 on Hillscore's ranking, with a Composite of +10.6%: the plain average return of every disclosed buy in the last five years.
The scored record runs from 2 November 2021 to 9 May 2024. Every trade, with its price and outcome, is on his page.
What he bought
Tuberville's buying is spread wide rather than concentrated in the household names. Technology is his largest sector, at 23.3% of purchases, and only 15.9% of his buys were mega-caps — far below members whose records are built on Apple, Microsoft and Nvidia.
The stocks he bought most often were Cleveland-Cliffs (18), PayPal Holdings (13), Intel (8), Barrick Mining (8), QUALCOMM (8). Repeated buys of the same stock count separately: each one is a decision, so each one is scored.
How it did against the sector
A raw return credits a trader with whatever the market did. The fairer test is the stock against its own sector over the same three months — did the pick beat simply owning the sector?
Across 232 of Tuberville's buys old enough to measure, the stock moved +1.20% in the following three months, and −0.97% against its sector. 39.7% of his picks beat their sector over that window. On this measure his picks, taken together, finished behind the sector funds they sit in.
That is the more useful reading of his Composite. A positive average over several years mostly reflects a rising market; the sector comparison takes the market out.
Best and worst calls
Measured three months after purchase, against the sector:
- Best: XP (XP), bought 3 April 2023: +112.6% raw, +107.4% against its sector.
- Worst: Humacyte (HUMA), bought 30 March 2022: −55.6% raw, −48.5% against its sector.
Single trades make good headlines and poor evidence. With 232 measured buys, the average says far more about his record than either end of it.
Committee overlap
29 of his measured buys were Notable: in a sector one of his own committees oversees. Those came to −1.59% against their sectors, against −0.88% for the rest — 0.7 points behind his other buys. On a sample this size that is too small a difference to read as an edge either way. A Notable flag is a screening signal, not an accusation: what it means.
What the record cannot show
Filings give a date and a dollar band, never the price paid, so every figure uses that day's close. Trades by a spouse or in managed accounts are filed under the member's name. And the scores cover purchases only: a well-timed sale earns nothing here. How the scoring works.
For how he compares with everyone else, see the best and worst traders in Congress.