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Lawmakers Bet Big on These 3 Stocks—Should You?By Jessica Mitacek. 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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A large share of members of the U.S. Congress are millionaires, but it’s highly unlikely any reached that level of net worth on a lawmaker’s salary alone. While the base pay for a senator or representative is a respectable $174,000 per year, that amount is far short of the income typically required to build a seven-figure net worth by itself. Instead, many elected officials have been extremely active in the market, logging hundreds if not thousands of trades each year.
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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. Numerous efforts to curb congressional stock trading have been proposed, but most such proposals fail to pass. Exchange-traded funds that track these trades—like the Unusual Whales Subversive Democratic Trading ETF (BATS: NANC)—underscore an interesting 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 some frequency. For investors looking to potentially capitalize on that trend, here are the top three stocks bought by U.S. lawmakers according to mandatory disclosure filings from the past 90 days. Representatives Are Benefitting From Netflix’s Big BounceAtop the list of most popular stocks among members of Congress is communication-services giant Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX). The stock has drawn bipartisan buying over the past three months, with nine purchases from four representatives resulting in roughly $163,500 of inflows. After hitting an all-time high in June 2025, NFLX experienced a well-publicized sell-off, with shares falling more than 43%. Since the stock’s year-to-date (YTD) low on Feb. 12, it has rallied nearly 42% — roughly the gain Representative McCaul has realized since purchasing shares on Feb. 17, a trade he disclosed on March 10. Fundamentally, Netflix looked poised for a rebound. The stock had been oversold despite year-over-year revenue growth of about 16% in both 2024 and 2025, and earnings gains of roughly 65% and 28% in those years. In other words, the sell-off pushed prices well below what the company’s results suggested. 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 with members of Congress. Over the past 90 days, the semiconductor and infrastructure-software company has seen lawmakers from both parties buy about $3,080,500 worth of its stock across eight trades. The timing was favorable. Over the past month, AVGO is up nearly 30%, and since its YTD low on March 30 the stock has gained more than 35%. The rally has been driven in part by news that Broadcom expanded its deal with Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META) to produce custom AI chips, extended a deal with Google through 2031 to develop Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), and agreed to provide Anthropic access to roughly 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, leaves the lawmaker’s position up nearly 19% since the purchase. Congress Is Placing a Big Bet on a Legacy Banking StockOver the past 90 days, JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM) has seen eight congressional trades amounting to roughly $304,500 in inflows from both sides of the aisle. That total includes a sizable Feb. 19 purchase by Representative Khanna, disclosed on March 9, for between $100,001 and $250,000. Since then, the long-established bank's shares have been mostly flat. Still, after reporting better-than-expected Q1 2026 results on April 14, JPMorgan's forward P/E of around 14 suggests the stock could be undervalued at current prices, particularly given analysts' forecasts for more than 7% earnings growth over the next year. The financials sector has underperformed this year, producing the weakest YTD returns among the S&P 500’s 11 sectors. But with major banks reporting strong earnings and record revenues early in earnings season, members of Congress may be positioning themselves for a potential rebound in JPM. |
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