What is reported under the STOCK Act?
Covered members, officers and employees disclose certain purchases, sales and exchanges of stocks, bonds, commodities futures and other securities above the applicable threshold. Reports can also include qualifying transactions by a spouse or dependent child.
The filing usually names the asset, transaction type, transaction date, owner and a value category. Because the amount is a range, two transactions in the same band can differ substantially in actual size.
How delayed are congressional stock reports?
Periodic transaction reports are generally required within 30 days of receiving notice of a covered transaction and no later than 45 days after the transaction. In practice, processing, amendments and reporting behavior can affect when a record becomes usable in a tracker.
That delay is critical. Price may have changed, the filer may have reduced the position or the trade may have been part of a broader allocation by the time it appears publicly.
- Use the transaction date to measure subsequent market movement.
- Use the filing date to understand how stale the public signal was.
- Check the owner field before attributing the decision to the member.
- Distinguish individual stocks from diversified funds and retirement assets.
- Watch for amendments that correct the asset, amount or transaction type.
What the disclosure cannot tell you
The report does not provide the full portfolio, exact execution price, investment thesis or current holding. A financial adviser may have discretion, a spouse may control the account and a sale can reflect rebalancing rather than a company view.
A useful tracker preserves source fields and connects the disclosure with current price, news, earnings and other ownership data. CaymanBot uses the filing as a research lead, not a recommendation to imitate a public official’s delayed transaction.
Primary sources
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