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Lawmakers Bet Big on These 3 Stocks—Should You?Author: Jessica Mitacek. Article Published: 4/22/2026. 
Key Points
- Approximately half of the members of Congress are millionaires, with some representatives logging thousands of trades and tens of millions in volume annually.
- Despite the majority of professional fund managers failing to beat the S&P 500, some members of Congress consistently outperform the market.
- In the last 90 days, lawmakers have shown strong bipartisan interest in Netflix, Broadcom, and JPMorgan Chase.
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Many members of the U.S. Congress are millionaires, but it’s highly unlikely any of them reached that level of net worth solely on a lawmaker's salary. While the base pay for a senator or representative is a respectable $174,000 per year, that is still far from the income typically required to build a seven-figure net worth. Instead, many elected officials have been extremely active in the market, logging hundreds — if not thousands — of trades each year.
In 2025, for example, Representative Ro Khanna (D-California) made 4,555 trades totaling nearly $63 million in volume. Representative Michael T. McCaul (R-Texas) wasn’t far behind, with 1,057 trades totaling nearly $62 million in volume. Although numerous proposals to curb congressional stock trading have been introduced, many such bills have stalled on the floor. Exchange-traded funds that track these trades—like the Unusual Whales Subversive Democratic Trading ETF (BATS: NANC)—underscore an intriguing point: despite more than 94% of actively managed funds failing to beat the S&P 500 over 20 years, members of Congress appear to outperform with relative ease. For investors looking to potentially capitalize on that phenomenon, here are the top three stocks bought by U.S. lawmakers according to mandatory disclosure filings over the past 90 days. Representatives Are Benefiting From Netflix’s Big BounceAt the top of the list of popular stocks among members of Congress is communication services giant Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX). The stock has received bipartisan support over the past three months, with nine buys from four representatives totaling $163,500 in inflows. After hitting an all-time high in June 2025, NFLX experienced a well-publicized sell-off that pushed shares down by more than 43%. Since the stock’s year-to-date low on Feb. 12, it has rallied nearly 42% — roughly the gain Representative McCaul has seen since purchasing shares on Feb. 17, a trade he disclosed on March 10. From a fundamentals perspective, Netflix was due for a rebound. The shares had been deeply oversold despite year-over-year revenue growth of nearly 16% in both 2024 and 2025 and earnings increases of roughly 65% and 28% in those years, respectively. Wall Street is broadly bullish on the streaming giant: 36 of the 50 analysts who cover the stock assign it a Buy rating, and the high-end price target implies more than 60% potential upside. Broadcom’s Rally Was Preceded by Heavy Congressional BuyingBy dollar volume, Broadcom (NASDAQ: AVGO) has been one of the most popular names for members of Congress. Over the past 90 days, the semiconductor and infrastructure-software company has seen members of both parties buy $3,080,500 of its stock across eight trades. The timing of those purchases proved fortuitous. Over the past month, AVGO is up nearly 30%, and since the stock’s YTD low on March 30 it has gained more than 35%. The rally has been driven in part by news of Broadcom expanding its deal with Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META) to produce custom AI chips. Broadcom also extended a deal with Google through 2031 to develop Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) and agreed to provide Anthropic access to approximately 3.5 gigawatts of TPU-based AI compute capacity beginning in 2027. Representative Tony Wied (R-Wisconsin) purchased between $1 million and $5 million worth of Broadcom stock on Feb. 19; that trade, disclosed on March 9, has the lawmaker’s position up nearly 19% since. Congress Is Placing a Big Bet on a Legacy Banking StockOver the past 90 days, JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM) has seen eight Congressional trades, resulting in $304,500 in inflows from both sides of the aisle. This includes a sizable Feb. 19 purchase by Representative Khanna, disclosed on March 9, for an amount between $100,001 and $250,000. Since then, JPMorgan's shares have been mostly flat. However, after reporting beats on both the top and bottom lines for Q1 2026 on April 14, the stock’s forward P/E of around 14 suggests it could be undervalued at current levels. Analysts also forecast the bank’s earnings to grow more than 7% over the next year. The financials sector has been under pressure this year and currently has the weakest year-to-date performance among the S&P 500’s 11 sectors. With major banks reporting strong earnings and record revenues to start the earnings season, members of Congress could be positioning themselves for a potential rebound in JPM. |
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