SELL MLM · April McClain Delaney
Martin Marietta Materials, Inc. Common Stock (MLM)
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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18/22 |
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Small, thinly-followed company
Nobody needs inside information to buy a mega-cap.
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4/10 |
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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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8/8 |
| 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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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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0/6 |
| Position size |
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0/3 |
| 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 32 days Towards the 45-day statutory limit.
No matching purchase on file. This member has no earlier disclosed purchase of MLM 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 16 transactions in total, of which 5 share this trade date (01 Aug 2025).
Filed 02 Sep 2025 · source PDF
Price
52-week range $525.14 – $706.23. The marker is the entry: the first market open after this filing became public.
Martin Marietta Materials, Inc.
Martin Marietta Materials, Inc., a natural resource-based building materials company, supplies aggregates and heavy-side building materials to the construction industry in the United States and internationally. It operates through East Group and West Group segments. The company offers crushed stone, sand, and gravel products; ready mixed concrete and asphalt; and paving products and services for use in the infrastruc…
| Sector | Basic Materials |
| Industry | Building Materials |
| Analyst range | $440 – $800 |
| Employees | 9,600 |
| Instrument | ST |
| Jurisdiction tags | materials |
https://www.martinmarietta.com
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 |
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| 1m | — | — | — |
| 3m | — | — | — |
| 6m | — | — | — |
| 12m 1yr | — | — | — |
| 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 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 MLM
| Grade | Date | Member | Side | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| E | 24 Jul 2026 | April McClain Delaney | purchase | $15,001 - $50,000 |
| E | 20 Jul 2026 | April McClain Delaney | purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| E | 17 Jul 2026 | April McClain Delaney | purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| E | 28 May 2026 | April McClain Delaney | purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| D | 09 Apr 2026 | Josh Gottheimer | sale | $15,001 - $50,000 |
| E | 09 Mar 2026 | April McClain Delaney | purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| E | 02 Dec 2025 | April McClain Delaney | purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| D | 23 Sep 2025 | Valerie Hoyle | sale | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| E | 10 Jun 2025 | Lisa McClain | sale | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| E | 11 Dec 2024 | Lisa McClain | purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| C | 29 Oct 2024 | Valerie Hoyle | purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| C | 30 Nov 2022 | Daniel S Sullivan | sale | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| C | 30 Nov 2022 | Daniel S Sullivan | sale | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| D | 07 Nov 2018 | Thomas Suozzi | sale | $50,001 - $100,000 |
| D | 15 Oct 2018 | Thomas Suozzi | purchase | $50,001 - $100,000 |
| D | 02 Oct 2018 | Thomas Suozzi | purchase | $15,001 - $50,000 |
| D | 01 Oct 2018 | Thomas Suozzi | purchase | $15,001 - $50,000 |
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