SELL COST · Shelley M Capito
Costco Wholesale
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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0/10 |
| Committee chair or ranking member |
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8/8 |
| Member's own account |
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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 18 days Within the 30-day notification window.
The position this closes
| Bought | Disclosed size | Held | Return | vs S&P |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 Jul 2022 | $1,001 - $15,000 | 1204 d | +101.3% | +18.9% |
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 10 transactions in total, of which 2 share this trade date (17 Oct 2025).
Few other trades share this date, so this reads as a discrete decision rather than a portfolio sweep.
Filed 04 Nov 2025 · source PDF
Same day: CVX
Price
52-week range $846.26 – $1092.58. The marker is the entry: the first market open after this filing became public.
Costco Wholesale Corporation
Costco Wholesale Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the operation of membership warehouses in the United States, Puerto Rico, Canada, Mexico, Japan, the United Kingdom, Korea, Australia, Taiwan, China, Spain, France, Iceland, New Zealand, and Sweden. It offers merchandise, including sundries, dry groceries, candies, coolers, freezers, deli, liquor, and tobacco; non-food merchandise comprising app…
| Sector | Consumer Defensive |
| Industry | Discount Stores |
| Analyst range | $740 – $1315 |
| Employees | 341,000 |
| Instrument | ST |
| Jurisdiction tags | unclassified |
Outside this member's committee jurisdiction (defense, energy, healthcare, industrials, materials, technology, telecom, transport, utilities).
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 COST
| Grade | Date | Member | Side | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| E | 10 Jul 2026 | Dan Newhouse | purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| E | 27 Mar 2026 | Alan Armstrong | purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| E | 30 Jan 2026 | Gilbert Cisneros | purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| E | 29 Dec 2025 | Markwayne Mullin | purchase | $15,001 - $50,000 |
| E | 24 Dec 2025 | Gilbert Cisneros | sale partial | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| E | 05 Nov 2025 | Richard Dean Dr McCormick | purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| E | 17 Oct 2025 | Gilbert Cisneros | purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| D | 09 Oct 2025 | John Boozman | purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| E | 23 Sep 2025 | Valerie Hoyle | sale | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| E | 10 Jul 2025 | Lisa McClain | sale | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| E | 17 Jun 2025 | Lisa McClain | purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| E | 09 Jun 2025 | Lisa McClain | sale partial | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| E | 12 May 2025 | Jefferson Shreve | sale | $100,001 - $250,000 |
| E | 21 Apr 2025 | Bruce Westerman | sale | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| E | 31 Mar 2025 | Jefferson Shreve | sale partial | $15,001 - $50,000 |
| E | 27 Mar 2025 | Greg Landsman | sale | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| E | 27 Mar 2025 | Greg Landsman | sale | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| E | 27 Mar 2025 | Greg Landsman | sale | $15,001 - $50,000 |
| E | 17 Mar 2025 | Marjorie Taylor Greene | purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| E | 03 Mar 2025 | Bruce Westerman | purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| E | 26 Feb 2025 | Greg Landsman | sale partial | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| D | 28 Jan 2025 | Scott Scott Franklin | sale | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| D | 28 Jan 2025 | Scott Scott Franklin | sale | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| D | 28 Jan 2025 | Scott Scott Franklin | sale | $50,001 - $100,000 |
| E | 02 Jan 2025 | James Comer | purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 |
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