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SELL COST · Shelley M Capito

Costco Wholesale

D

Looks like ordinary portfolio activity

Signal score 29 / 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
21/22
Small, thinly-followed company
Nobody needs inside information to buy a mega-cap.
0/10
Committee chair or ranking member
8/8
Member's own account
0/8
A name they had never held before
A first purchase is a decision; the ninth purchase of the same holding is a standing order.
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 18 days Within the 30-day notification window.

The position this closes

BoughtDisclosed sizeHeld Returnvs 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

Entry
Latest
$940.50
12 Aug 2026
Since entry
price only

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…

Market cap
$421.1B
1yr target
$1077
+13.5% from $949.58
Analysts
35
buy
P/E
47.6
beta 0.86
SectorConsumer Defensive
IndustryDiscount Stores
Analyst range $740 – $1315
Employees341,000
InstrumentST
Jurisdiction tags unclassified

https://www.costco.com

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

HeldThis tradeS&P 500Alpha
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18m
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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

GradeDateMemberSideAmount
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