The sectors politicians tilt towards
Where does disclosed political trading concentrate, and is it net buying or net selling?
Political trading concentrates heavily in technology, and the buy/sell balance differs sharply by sector. Whether that is information or simply the same tilt every private investor has is the question the data cannot settle, and we say so.
Disclosed trades by sector
Computed live from our database when you loaded this page. Nothing here is hand-typed, so nothing here can go stale.
| Sector | Trades | Buys | Sells | Buy share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unmapped | 1,084 | 662 | 415 | +61.5% |
| Technology | 804 | 411 | 393 | +51.1% |
| Consumer | 469 | 258 | 211 | +55% |
| Healthcare | 417 | 211 | 206 | +50.6% |
| Financials | 373 | 198 | 174 | +53.2% |
| Industrials | 335 | 176 | 158 | +52.7% |
| Communications | 208 | 114 | 94 | +54.8% |
| Consumer Cyclical | 98 | 42 | 55 | +43.3% |
| Energy | 97 | 43 | 50 | +46.2% |
| Materials | 75 | 45 | 30 | +60% |
| Real Estate | 70 | 38 | 32 | +54.3% |
| Utilities | 70 | 33 | 37 | +47.1% |
Live from our database. 12 rows shown.
- Disclosed equity trades, joined to our universe to attach a sector, grouped and counted.
- 'Buy share' is buys as a percentage of buys plus sells.
- The single largest group is likely to be unmapped companies outside our coverage. We show that row rather than hide it.
- We do not hold committee membership data, so we CANNOT test the interesting question, which is whether members trade in the industries they regulate. Anyone claiming to have answered that from this data alone has not.
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