SELL MKL · April McClain Delaney
Markel Group Inc. Common Stock (MKL)
Routine managed-account rebalancing
| Inside their committee's jurisdiction |
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0/32 |
| Isolated decision, not a bulk rebalance |
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14/22 |
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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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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 10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 06 Mar 2025 | $1,001 - $15,000 | 505 d | +4.9% | -26.3% |
What a follower should do: already closed.
The tracked position had already reached its twelve months and been sold on the calendar before this sale was disclosed, so there is nothing to act 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 62 transactions in total, of which 8 share this trade date (24 Jul 2026).
Filed 03 Aug 2026 · source PDF
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 |
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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 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 |
| 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 |
| D | 07 Mar 2025 | April McClain Delaney | purchase | $15,001 - $50,000 |
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