Congressional Trades
Lois Frankel

Lois Frankel

Democrat House FL
-8.5% alpha vs S&P 500 · 2 buys evaluated
683
STOCK Act Trades
287
Buys
396
Sells
170
Stocks Traded
$844K – $10610K
Value Range
2026-01-21
Latest Trade
28 days
Median Filing Lag
All Trades
683 transactions, newest first · showing the 250 most recent
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Most Traded Stocks
Tickers Lois trades most
Trade timeline
Buy Sell Dot size = disclosed trade amount

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Performance Analysis
Lois's buys vs the S&P 500
Based on 2 buys held to today's close. Sell trades excluded — public disclosures don't include cost basis.
If you mirrored Frankel's buys equal-weighted on each disclosure date, your average position would be -0.9% today, vs +7.6% if you'd put the same money into SPY for the same time periods. That's -8.5% underperformance vs the index.
-0.9%
Frankel Avg Return
+7.6%
SPY Same Periods
-8.5%
Alpha vs SPY
AMZNbought 2026-01-21
Frankel +12.9%
SPY +4.6%
+8.3%
Alpha
MSFTbought 2025-09-10
Frankel -14.8%
SPY +10.6%
-25.3%
Alpha
Method: each buy invested at next-day close on the transaction date, held to today. SPY benchmark uses identical entry dates. Past performance ≠ future results. Not financial advice.
Positions they finished
8 times Lois bought a stock and later sold the same stock, with both dates disclosed. 0 of the 8 beat the S&P 500 over the identical days. The 6 we can chart are below; the others fall outside the five years of daily prices we hold.
Round trip 1 of 6

CRL held 136 days

2023-04-25 → 2023-09-08
$187.60 to $199.74 adjusted close

-3.6pp
vs the S&P over the same days
$221.00 $180.32 2023-03-13 2023-10-20
Bought The 136 days they held it Sold

CRL moved +6.5% while the S&P did +10.1%. Disclosed as $1,001 - $15,000 bought, $1,001 - $15,000 sold — which is why this is a price move and not a profit.

Round trip 2 of 6

ADSK held 220 days

2023-01-31 → 2023-09-08
$215.16 to $219.19 adjusted close

-8.6pp
vs the S&P over the same days
$234.00 $177.35 2022-12-15 2023-10-20
Bought The 220 days they held it Sold

ADSK moved +1.9% while the S&P did +10.4%. Disclosed as $1,001 - $15,000 bought, $1,001 - $15,000 sold — which is why this is a price move and not a profit.

Round trip 3 of 6

TEL held 197 days

2023-02-23 → 2023-09-08
$120.85 to $122.30 adjusted close

-10.8pp
vs the S&P over the same days
$140.02 $109.98 2023-01-10 2023-10-20
Bought The 197 days they held it Sold

TEL moved +1.2% while the S&P did +12.0%. Disclosed as $1,001 - $15,000 bought, $1,001 - $15,000 sold — which is why this is a price move and not a profit.

Round trip 4 of 6

MTB held 605 days

2022-01-11 → 2023-09-08
$154.47 to $111.71 adjusted close

-24.8pp
vs the S&P over the same days
$175.30 $94.20 2021-11-29 2023-10-20
Bought The 605 days they held it Sold

MTB moved -27.7% while the S&P did -2.9%. Disclosed as $1,001 - $15,000 bought, $1,001 - $15,000 sold — which is why this is a price move and not a profit.

Round trip 5 of 6

LAMR held 203 days

2023-02-17 → 2023-09-08
$90.50 to $74.56 adjusted close

-27.8pp
vs the S&P over the same days
$94.42 $66.35 2023-01-05 2023-10-20
Bought The 203 days they held it Sold

LAMR moved -17.6% while the S&P did +10.2%. Disclosed as $1,001 - $15,000 bought, $1,001 - $15,000 sold — which is why this is a price move and not a profit.

Round trip 6 of 6

IFF held 173 days

2023-02-17 → 2023-08-09
$87.88 to $59.27 adjusted close

-42.8pp
vs the S&P over the same days
$111.07 $53.59 2023-01-05 2023-09-21
Bought The 173 days they held it Sold

IFF moved -32.6% while the S&P did +10.3%. Disclosed as $1,001 - $15,000 bought, $1,001 - $15,000 sold — which is why this is a price move and not a profit.

32.9%
Across every member we can measure, most completed positions lost to the index. 167 of 508 closed round trips by 47 members beat the S&P 500 over their own holding periods — 32.9%, against the 50% you would get from chance. The median one finished -4.4 percentage points behind the index after 95 days. That is the opposite of what congressional trade-tracking usually implies, and it is what these disclosures actually show once the positions are closed.

What this is not: a profit. The STOCK Act discloses an amount band, never a share count. A member who bought in the $50,001–$100,000 band and sold in the $15,001–$50,000 band might have trimmed the position or might have watched it fall — nothing in the filing tells the two apart. So every figure here is the movement in the share price between two disclosed dates, next to what the S&P 500 did over exactly those days.

Only completed positions appear — one purchase, one sale, in that order. A stock bought twice, or sold before any purchase we hold, has no single cost basis we can honestly describe and is left out. Prices are adjusted closes, which account for splits and dividends; that is what makes the comparison with the index like for like, and it is why a price shown here can differ from what the stock traded at on the day.

Committees
What Lois helps oversee in Congress
House Committee on Appropriations
⚠ Disclaimer: Congressional trading data from public STOCK Act disclosures. Trades may be filed up to 45 days after the transaction. This does not constitute evidence of insider trading or any improper activity. Not financial advice.

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