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SELL WBD · Pete Sessions

Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. - Series A (WBD)

D

Looks like ordinary portfolio activity

Signal score 32 / 100 — how much this looks like a deliberate, informed position rather than routine portfolio activity.
Inside their committee's jurisdiction
0/32
Isolated decision, not a bulk rebalance
21/22
Small, thinly-followed company
Nobody needs inside information to buy a mega-cap.
3/10
Committee chair or ranking member
8/8
Member's own account
0/8
A name they had never held before
A first purchase is a decision; the ninth purchase of the same holding is a standing order.
0/8
Unusually large for this member
Against their own median trade, not an absolute threshold - and capped, because trades beyond 3x did worse, not better.
0/6
Position size
0/3
Leveraged instrument (option)
0/3

A high grade is not an allegation. Every input is public, and buying into an industry you work on daily is ordinary expertise. What the trade actually returned is deliberately excluded from this score and shown separately below.

It is also not a forecast. Measured across every settled trade, A-graded ones did not beat E-graded ones to any significant degree — the method page prints the table. This score says a trade looks like a decision rather than administration, and nothing more.

The filing it came from

filed in 7 days Inside two weeks - most of the following year was still available to anyone reading the filing.

No matching purchase on file. This member has no earlier disclosed purchase of WBD in this account, so the position was almost certainly opened before these records begin in 2019. About 45% of sales are in this situation.

This is a sale, and the strategy does not act on it. It records the member closing a position; it is not a short signal and not an instruction to sell. Exiting when members disclose selling, rather than at twelve months, cut in-remit alpha from +6.76% to +3.57% — a cost of 6.50 points on the trades it changed. See the method.

This filing disclosed 2 transactions in total, of which 2 share this trade date (06 Oct 2023).

Few other trades share this date, so this reads as a discrete decision rather than a portfolio sweep.

Filed 13 Oct 2023 · source PDF

Same day: ARCC

Price

Entry
Latest
$27.42
12 Aug 2026
Since entry
price only

52-week range $11.54 – $29.98. The marker is the entry: the first market open after this filing became public.

Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc.

Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. operates as a media and entertainment company worldwide. It operates through three segments: Streaming, Studios, and Global Linear Networks. The Streaming segment offers streaming services, such as HBO Max and discovery+, and premium pay-TV services, including HBO and certain premium sports streaming products for mobile and connected TV devices. The Studios segment is involved in the prod…

Market cap
$69.3B
1yr target
$30
+7.8% from $27.65
Analysts
11
hold
P/E
beta 1.56
SectorCommunication Services
IndustryEntertainment
Analyst range $26 – $31
Employees35,500
InstrumentST
Jurisdiction tags technologytelecom

https://www.wbd.com

Outside this member's committee jurisdiction (crypto, financials, real estate).

Expressing this with options

An illustration, not a recommendation: the nearest listed expiry to a twelve-month horizon, struck near the money. Chains are live — Yahoo publishes no historical chains, so this is priced today, not when the filing was made, and the move it describes may already have happened.

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Outcome

HeldThis tradeS&P 500Alpha
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60m 5yr

Measured from the first open after disclosure — the earliest anyone reading this could have acted. The highlighted now row sits at its true place in the sequence, so where it falls tells you how long the position has run. The last 9 rows are blank because those windows have not closed yet: this trade was entered —, so anything longer than that is still running.

Other congressional trades in WBD

GradeDateMemberSideAmount
E 27 Mar 2026 Alan Armstrong purchase $1,001 - $15,000
E 10 Feb 2026 Gilbert Cisneros sale partial $1,001 - $15,000
B 10 Feb 2026 August Lee Pfluger II sale $1,001 - $15,000
E 09 Jan 2026 Gilbert Cisneros purchase $1,001 - $15,000
D 08 Dec 2025 Julia Letlow sale $1,001 - $15,000
E 18 Nov 2025 Gilbert Cisneros purchase $1,001 - $15,000
D 25 Jul 2025 Julia Letlow sale partial $1,001 - $15,000
E 12 May 2025 Jefferson Shreve sale $15,001 - $50,000
B 13 Jan 2025 August Lee Pfluger II sale $1,001 - $15,000
B 29 Nov 2024 Laurel Lee sale partial $1,001 - $15,000
B 29 Nov 2024 Laurel Lee sale $1,001 - $15,000
C 01 Nov 2024 Julia Letlow purchase $1,001 - $15,000
D 12 Aug 2024 Carol Devine Miller sale $1,001 - $15,000
E 09 Jul 2024 Earl Blumenauer sale $1,001 - $15,000
B 22 Nov 2023 James French Hill purchase $1,001 - $15,000
D 01 Nov 2023 Pete Sessions sale $476.63
D 31 Oct 2023 Pete Sessions sale $1,001 - $15,000
C 20 Sep 2023 Sheldon Whitehouse sale $1,001 - $15,000
C 20 Sep 2023 Sheldon Whitehouse sale $1,001 - $15,000
D 18 Aug 2023 Pete Sessions sale $469.21
B 01 Aug 2023 Michael Patrick Guest sale $1,001 - $15,000
B 21 Dec 2022 Michael Patrick Guest sale $1,001 - $15,000
B 12 Dec 2022 Gary C Peters sale $1,001 - $15,000
D 04 Aug 2022 Bob Gibbs sale $1,001 - $15,000
D 17 Jun 2022 Earl Blumenauer purchase $1,001 - $15,000