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Defense and Aerospace Stocks Traded by Congress

Last disclosed trade Oct 1, 2026

Members of Congress have disclosed 138 trades in 8 defense and aerospace stocks, dated December 2022 through Oct 1, 2026. 34 members filed them: 82 purchases and 54 sales, so 59% of the trades were buys.

The most traded tickers are $HON (36 trades by 17 members), $LMT (31 trades by 13 members), and $RTX (28 trades by 12 members). 6 tickers in the sector were traded by more than one member.

The most active traders in the sector: Kevin Hern (23 trades across 4 tickers), Rohit Khanna (18 trades across 2 tickers), and April McClain Delaney (10 trades across 1 ticker).

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.

138
Disclosed trades
82
Buys
54
Sales
34
Members
8
Tickers

Defense and Aerospace trades by year

Trade yearTradesBuysSalesMembers
20264025139
202535201517
202424141012
20233319148
20222201

Between the trade and the disclosure

80
Priced purchases
+0.71%
Avg move to disclosure
+2.87%
S&P 500, same windows
43%
Beat the S&P 500

Across the 80 purchases of defense and aerospace stocks Coldpine can price, the stock moved +0.71% on average between the trade date and the date the member disclosed it, against +2.87% for the S&P 500 over the same windows, a difference of -2.16 points. The median purchase moved +0.49%. The stock was higher at disclosure in 55% of those purchases and did better than the S&P 500 in 43%.

Of the 12 sectors with 30 or more priced purchases, 2 outpaced the S&P 500 on average over these windows (technology and energy); defense and aerospace ranks 10th 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 defense and aerospace stock on record, by disclosed trades

Members who trade defense and aerospace stocks

Kevin Hern23Rohit Khanna18April McClain Delaney10Alan Armstrong7Maria Elvira Salazar7Byron Donalds6Dan Newhouse6Diana Harshbarger5William R. Keating5Gilbert Cisneros4Scott Franklin4Julie Johnson4John Curtis3Jonathan Jackson3Blake Moore3Jared Moskowitz3Thomas H Tuberville3Rob Bresnahan2Josh Gottheimer2Carol Devine Miller2David Rouzer2Pete Sessions2Tim Walberg2George Whitesides2Earl Blumenauer1

The 25 most active of 34 members, by disclosed trades in the sector.

Latest disclosed defense and aerospace trades

Trade dateMemberTickerTypeAmount
Oct 1, 2026Pete Sessions(TX)HONsell$1K–$15K
Sep 25, 2026Rohit Khanna(CA)HONbuy$1K–$15K
Sep 24, 2026Maria Elvira Salazar(FL)HONsell$1K–$15K
Sep 24, 2026Maria Elvira Salazar(FL)BAsell$1K–$15K
Sep 23, 2026Kevin Hern(OK)LMTsell$15K–$50K
Sep 23, 2026Kevin Hern(OK)LMTsell$15K–$50K
Sep 17, 2026Kevin Hern(OK)LMTsell$15K–$50K
Sep 17, 2026Kevin Hern(OK)LMTsell$15K–$50K
Aug 13, 2026Kevin Hern(OK)BAsell$15K–$50K
Aug 13, 2026Kevin Hern(OK)BAsell$1K–$15K
Jul 20, 2026Rohit Khanna(CA)HONsell$1K–$15K
Jul 8, 2026Rohit Khanna(CA)HONsell$1K–$15K
Jun 30, 2026Diana Harshbarger(TN)HONexch$1K–$15K
Jun 30, 2026Diana Harshbarger(TN)HONexch$1K–$15K
Jun 16, 2026Rohit Khanna(CA)HONbuy$1K–$15K
Jun 15, 2026Maria Elvira Salazar(FL)VOYGbuy$15K–$50K
Jun 8, 2026Thomas H Tuberville(AL)LMTsell$15K–$50K
May 22, 2026April McClain Delaney(MD)TDGbuy$1K–$15K
May 21, 2026April McClain Delaney(MD)TDGbuy$1K–$15K
May 13, 2026April McClain Delaney(MD)TDGbuy$1K–$15K

Other sectors

Technology4,326Financials3,308Healthcare2,529Consumer Discretionary2,342Industrials2,092Materials1,128Consumer Staples745Communications744Transportation515Utilities451Energy318Real 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.