Trade of the BUY MKL · April McClain Delaney
Markel Group Inc. Common Stock (MKL)
Looks like ordinary portfolio activity
| Inside their committee's jurisdiction |
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0/32 |
| Isolated decision, not a bulk rebalance |
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21/22 |
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Small, thinly-followed company
Nobody needs inside information to buy a mega-cap.
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5/10 |
| Member's own account |
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0/8 |
| Committee chair or ranking member |
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0/8 |
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A name they had never held before
A first purchase is a decision; the ninth purchase of the same holding is a standing order.
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0/8 |
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Unusually large for this member
Against their own median trade, not an absolute threshold - and capped, because trades beyond 3x did worse, not better.
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6/6 |
| Position size |
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1/3 |
| Leveraged instrument (option) |
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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 26 days Within the 30-day notification window.
How this position ended
| Sold | Held | Return | vs S&P | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 Jul 2026 | 507 d | +6.5% | -24.1% | part of the holding |
| 28 Jul 2026 | 508 d | +7.7% | -23.1% | part of the holding |
| 29 Jul 2026 | 509 d | +6.5% | -22.4% | part of the holding |
Partly sold by the member. What the member did afterwards, for context. The strategy does not act on it: exiting when members disclose selling cost 6.50 points against holding the full twelve months.
Not in the strategy. Either this purchase falls outside the member's committee jurisdiction, or the security has no usable price history to trade against.
This filing disclosed 17 transactions in total, of which 2 share this trade date (07 Mar 2025).
Few other trades share this date, so this reads as a discrete decision rather than a portfolio sweep.
Filed 02 Apr 2025 · source PDF
Same day: JLL
Price
52-week range $1751.37 – $2191.90. The marker is the entry: the first market open after this filing became public.
Markel Group Inc.
Markel Group Inc. engages in the insurance business in the United States, the United Kingdom, Bermuda, Germany, rest of the European Union, Canada, and the Asia Pacific. It operates through Markel Insurance, Industrial, Financial, and Consumer and Other segments. The company offers general and professional liability, specialty programs, workers' compensation, and marine and energy insurance; personal lines insurance,…
| Sector | Financial Services |
| Industry | Insurance - Property & Casualty |
| Analyst range | $1671 – $2107 |
| Employees | 22,900 |
| Instrument | ST |
| Jurisdiction tags | financials |
Outside this member's committee jurisdiction (aerospace, agriculture, commodities, technology).
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
| Held | This trade | S&P 500 | Alpha |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1m | +2.6% | +4.0% | -1.4% |
| 3m | +9.4% | +15.1% | -5.6% |
| 6m | +5.0% | +23.5% | -18.5% |
| 12m 1yr | +3.8% | +21.7% | -17.9% |
| now 16.3 mo | -0.1% | +46.1% | -46.2% |
| 18m | — | — | — |
| 24m | — | — | — |
| 36m | — | — | — |
| 48m | — | — | — |
| 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 5 rows are blank because those windows have not closed yet: this trade was entered 03 Apr 2025, so anything longer than that is still running.
Other congressional trades in MKL
| Grade | Date | Member | Side | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| E | 29 Jul 2026 | April McClain Delaney | sale partial | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| E | 28 Jul 2026 | April McClain Delaney | sale partial | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| E | 27 Jul 2026 | April McClain Delaney | sale partial | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| E | 24 Jul 2026 | April McClain Delaney | sale partial | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| D | 29 Jun 2026 | Thomas H. Kean Jr | sale partial | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| D | 02 Jun 2026 | Thomas H. Kean Jr | sale partial | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| E | 01 May 2026 | April McClain Delaney | purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| E | 30 Apr 2026 | April McClain Delaney | purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| D | 23 Jan 2026 | Thomas H. Kean Jr | sale partial | $15,001 - $50,000 |
| E | 03 Nov 2025 | April McClain Delaney | purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| D | 12 Sep 2025 | Thomas H. Kean Jr | sale partial | $15,001 - $50,000 |
| D | 21 Aug 2025 | April McClain Delaney | purchase | $15,001 - $50,000 |
| E | 07 Aug 2025 | April McClain Delaney | purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| D | 01 Aug 2025 | April McClain Delaney | purchase | $15,001 - $50,000 |
| E | 25 Jul 2025 | April McClain Delaney | purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| E | 09 Jul 2025 | April McClain Delaney | purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| C | 23 Jun 2025 | James French Hill | purchase | $15,001 - $50,000 |
| B | 23 Jun 2025 | James French Hill | purchase | $50,001 - $100,000 |
| E | 06 Jun 2025 | April McClain Delaney | purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| E | 27 May 2025 | April McClain Delaney | purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| E | 13 May 2025 | April McClain Delaney | purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| E | 07 May 2025 | April McClain Delaney | purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| E | 24 Apr 2025 | April McClain Delaney | purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| E | 09 Apr 2025 | April McClain Delaney | purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| E | 10 Mar 2025 | April McClain Delaney | purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 |