Trade of the SELL PTC · April McClain Delaney
PTC Inc. - Common Stock (PTC)
Mixed signals
| Inside their committee's jurisdiction |
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32/32 |
| 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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6/10 |
| 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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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 3 days Inside two weeks - most of the following year was still available to anyone reading the filing.
The position this closes
| Bought | Disclosed size | Held | Return | vs S&P |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 Aug 2025 | $15,001 - $50,000 | 182 d | -26.4% | -38.3% |
What a follower should do: keep holding — 213 days still to run.
The member is out, but the tracked position is not due to close yet. Following members out of positions was tested and it lost 6.50 points against holding the full term - disclosure arrives too late to be worth acting on.
Matched oldest-lot-first on disclosed value within this account. Filings give a range, never a share count, so the pairing reads the documents rather than reconstructing the portfolio.
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 15 transactions in total, of which 2 share this trade date (30 Jan 2026).
Few other trades share this date, so this reads as a discrete decision rather than a portfolio sweep.
Filed 02 Feb 2026 · source PDF
Same day: WAB
Price
52-week range $112.33 – $216.53. The marker is the entry: the first market open after this filing became public.
PTC Inc.
PTC Inc. operates as software company in the Americas, Europe, and the Asia Pacific. The company provides Windchill, a suite that manages all aspects of the product development lifecycle(PLM) that provides real-time information sharing, dynamic data visualization, collaborate across geographically distributed teams, and enabling manufacturers to elevate product development, manufacturing, field service, and end-of-li…
| Sector | Technology |
| Industry | Software - Application |
| Analyst range | $140 – $230 |
| Employees | 7,000 |
| Instrument | ST |
| Jurisdiction tags | technology |
Inside this member's remit. Their committees cover aerospaceagriculturecommoditiestechnology
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 PTC
| Grade | Date | Member | Side | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| E | 27 Mar 2026 | Alan Armstrong | purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| D | 28 Jan 2026 | Gilbert Cisneros | purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| C | 23 Jan 2026 | April McClain Delaney | sale partial | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| C | 05 Dec 2025 | April McClain Delaney | sale partial | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| C | 02 Dec 2025 | April McClain Delaney | sale partial | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| D | 30 Sep 2025 | Gilbert Cisneros | purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| B | 01 Aug 2025 | April McClain Delaney | purchase | $15,001 - $50,000 |
| C | 11 Jul 2025 | April McClain Delaney | purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| D | 09 Jul 2025 | Gilbert Cisneros | purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| D | 11 Jun 2025 | Gilbert Cisneros | purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| D | 28 May 2025 | Gilbert Cisneros | purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| D | 13 May 2025 | Gilbert Cisneros | purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| D | 28 Apr 2025 | Gilbert Cisneros | purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| E | 08 Apr 2025 | Rob Bresnahan | sale | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| C | 01 Apr 2025 | Gilbert Cisneros | purchase | $15,001 - $50,000 |
| B | 01 Apr 2025 | April McClain Delaney | sale partial | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| C | 01 Apr 2025 | Julie Johnson | sale | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| D | 25 Aug 2022 | Kevin Hern | purchase | $15,001 - $50,000 |
| E | 21 Jul 2021 | Kevin Hern | purchase | $15,001 - $50,000 |
| E | 03 Jun 2021 | Thomas Suozzi | sale | $50,001 - $100,000 |
| D | 26 May 2021 | Kevin Hern | purchase | $50,001 - $100,000 |
| C | 02 Mar 2021 | Thomas Suozzi | purchase | $50,001 - $100,000 |