![[OC] Senator Tina Smith ranks #1 in Congress by estimated stock returns in 2025 (+86%)](https://www.byteseu.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/3ig7aimds4cg1-1024x393.png "[OC] Senator Tina Smith ranks #1 in Congress by estimated stock returns in 2025 (+86%)")
Other interesting facts:
– The U.S. Congress achieves higher returns than S&P500 in 2025
– 8 of the "top 10" are Republicans. The common patterns can be found in buys after tariffs
– Pelosi falls to the 7th place, but she's still at the top if you take the last 3 years
Data sources: House and Senate financial disclosures aggregated by insidercat.com using Python and Next.js
Posted by Anub_Rekhan
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Data sources: House and Senate financial disclosures aggregated by [insidercat.com](http://insidercat.com) using Python and Next.js (If you want to check it out, get first month for free using the code WELCOMEKITTY)
– Note: I filtered for politicians with portfolio size > 1M. You can also see their ROI that accounts for the reporting delays
Interesting. She was doing worse than the market until December 23? Then she suddenly starts beating the market after that.
I dont understand the hubris to make huge gains on unknown biotech stocks like this that are lottery ticket plays for anyone who doesnt have insider information.
Like you could make millions (like Pelosi) on just moderately well timed buys of blue chip stocks/options. At least buying GOOGL or NVDA leaps is defensible pretty much 365 days a year.
That doesn’t seem that crazy. If they all bought some various stocks, some would win and some would lose. You would expect some to beat the SP500. I’m at 125% for last year and I’m not even in Congress.
For the curious, she is on the Senate Committee on Finance
Is it possible to just have a fund that automatically invests on stocks that politicians are investing?
Why are your numbers completely different from Unusual Whales report for 2025?
To actually evaluate this and make any accusations, we need holding times and trades. This looks like a hodl portfolio. Both stocks in medical tech., both were flat isch to negative and had big jumps in 2025.
Can we get a comparison to Trump’s family?
I hate politicians as much as anyone, but having been in the market for decades, there’s four of five of these events in my history. And essentially zero big drops, except the temporary things the world experienced with me. I can see it being legit. As far as home state businesses – every one of my big winners has been a company I had a ton of information on, though not a bit of it was “insider” – just research. My favorite? Buying a shitpile of NVIDIA when they were the subject of the gaming community’s angst over low video card supply, apparently caused by crypto miners. After a few hours of reading I realized it was a goldmine. Bought that stock at under $10/share.
Why are there only two stocks on here?
As far as I can tell from other sites, her and her husband own a diversified portfolio including index funds and many stocks not shown here.
Of course if you cherry pick two individual stocks that happened to do well, you will outperform the market.
This probably helps.
Smith’s husband, Archie Smith, is an independent investor, focusing largely on health care and medical companies.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tina_Smith](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tina_Smith)
It’s wild how our politicians are somehow better traders than actual professional stock traders.