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Consumer Staples Stocks Traded by Congress

Last disclosed trade Oct 21, 2026

Members of Congress have disclosed 745 trades in 29 consumer staples stocks, dated March 2022 through Oct 21, 2026. 48 members filed them: 451 purchases and 294 sales, so 61% of the trades were buys.

The most traded tickers are $PEP (126 trades by 23 members), $KO (60 trades by 16 members), and $GIS (54 trades by 7 members). 25 tickers in the sector were traded by more than one member.

The most active traders in the sector: Rohit Khanna (463 trades across 21 tickers), Michael T. McCaul (50 trades across 5 tickers), and Josh Gottheimer (24 trades across 7 tickers).

Sectors are coarse groups assigned from each company's SEC industry (SIC) code, not a market-index classification. A trade with no listed ticker, or a ticker the SEC does not classify, is not counted in any sector. How every sector compares across Congress: What Sectors Do Members of Congress Trade the Most? Informational only, sourced from public filings. Not investment advice.

745
Disclosed trades
451
Buys
294
Sales
48
Members
29
Tickers

Consumer Staples trades by year

Trade yearTradesBuysSalesMembers
202687543320
202523012310729
20242061406615
20232041248020
202211653

Between the trade and the disclosure

443
Priced purchases
+0.04%
Avg move to disclosure
+2.22%
S&P 500, same windows
33%
Beat the S&P 500

Across the 443 purchases of consumer staples stocks Coldpine can price, the stock moved +0.04% on average between the trade date and the date the member disclosed it, against +2.22% for the S&P 500 over the same windows, a difference of -2.18 points. The median purchase moved -0.09%. The stock was higher at disclosure in 49% of those purchases and did better than the S&P 500 in 33%.

Of the 12 sectors with 30 or more priced purchases, 2 outpaced the S&P 500 on average over these windows (technology and energy); consumer staples ranks 11th by the difference. This is a record of what already happened in a window no one reading the filings could trade, not a forecast. Method: what stocks do before Congress discloses.

Every consumer staples stock on record, by disclosed trades

Members who trade consumer staples stocks

Rohit Khanna463Michael T. McCaul50Josh Gottheimer24Alan Armstrong16Virginia Foxx16Jared Moskowitz15Lloyd Doggett14Julie Johnson11Rob Bresnahan10Scott Franklin9Lisa McClain9Marjorie Taylor Greene7William R. Keating7Dan Newhouse7Gilbert Cisneros5Kevin Hern5Rick Larsen5Kelly Louise Morrison5Thomas H Tuberville5John Curtis4Diana Harshbarger4Carol Devine Miller4Tim Moore4Pete Sessions4Byron Donalds3

The 25 most active of 48 members, by disclosed trades in the sector.

Latest disclosed consumer staples trades

Trade dateMemberTickerTypeAmount
Oct 21, 2026Pete Sessions(TX)PEPsell$1K–$15K
Sep 25, 2026Rohit Khanna(CA)TAPsell$1K–$15K
Sep 25, 2026Rohit Khanna(CA)STZsell$1K–$15K
Sep 25, 2026Rohit Khanna(CA)PEPbuy$15K–$50K
Sep 11, 2026Rohit Khanna(CA)MNSTsell$1K–$15K
Sep 11, 2026Rohit Khanna(CA)STZsell$1K–$15K
Sep 11, 2026Rohit Khanna(CA)PEPbuy$15K–$50K
Sep 4, 2026Rohit Khanna(CA)KObuy$1K–$15K
Sep 4, 2026Rohit Khanna(CA)MObuy$1K–$15K
Sep 4, 2026Rohit Khanna(CA)HSYbuy$1K–$15K
Sep 4, 2026Rohit Khanna(CA)PEPbuy$15K–$50K
Aug 26, 2026Scott Franklin(FL)PEPbuy$1K–$15K
Aug 26, 2026Scott Franklin(FL)PEPbuy$1K–$15K
Aug 13, 2026Kevin Hern(OK)HRLsell$1K–$15K
Aug 10, 2026Rohit Khanna(CA)MOsell$1K–$15K
Aug 10, 2026Rohit Khanna(CA)PEPbuy$1K–$15K
Aug 5, 2026Kevin Hern(OK)MDLZsell$1K–$15K
Aug 5, 2026Kevin Hern(OK)DEOsell$1K–$15K
Aug 3, 2026Rohit Khanna(CA)PEPsell$15K–$50K
Aug 3, 2026Rohit Khanna(CA)MObuy$1K–$15K

Other sectors

Technology4,326Financials3,308Healthcare2,529Consumer Discretionary2,342Industrials2,092Materials1,128Communications744Transportation515Utilities451Energy318Defense and Aerospace138Real Estate26

Data sourced from public STOCK Act disclosures. Coldpine is a publisher of intelligence on congressional disclosures, not an investment adviser. How the records are parsed: methodology.