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SELL MLM · April McClain Delaney

Martin Marietta Materials, Inc. Common Stock (MLM)

D

Looks like ordinary portfolio activity

Signal score 30 / 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
18/22
Small, thinly-followed company
Nobody needs inside information to buy a mega-cap.
4/10
A name they had never held before
A first purchase is a decision; the ninth purchase of the same holding is a standing order.
8/8
Member's own account
0/8
Committee chair or ranking member
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 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

Same day: TECHIDXXMKLPTC

Price

Entry
Latest
$543.90
12 Aug 2026
Since entry
price only

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…

Market cap
$32.7B
1yr target
$664
+22.0% from $543.90
Analysts
23
buy
P/E
36.0
beta 1.11
SectorBasic Materials
IndustryBuilding Materials
Analyst range $440 – $800
Employees9,600
InstrumentST
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

HeldThis tradeS&P 500Alpha
1m
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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

GradeDateMemberSideAmount
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