SELL ABT · Shelley M Capito
Abbott Laboratories
Deliberate position with a committee link
| Inside their committee's jurisdiction |
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32/32 |
| Isolated decision, not a bulk rebalance |
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20/22 |
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Small, thinly-followed company
Nobody needs inside information to buy a mega-cap.
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2/10 |
| 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03 Mar 2020 | $1,001 - $15,000 | 1819 d | +89.0% | -25.6% |
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 7 transactions in total, of which 3 share this trade date (24 Feb 2025).
Few other trades share this date, so this reads as a discrete decision rather than a portfolio sweep.
Filed 06 Mar 2025 · source PDF
Price
52-week range $81.98 – $133.53. The marker is the entry: the first market open after this filing became public.
Abbott Laboratories
Abbott Laboratories, together with its subsidiaries, discovers, develops, manufactures, and sells health care products worldwide. It operates in four segments: Established Pharmaceutical Products, Diagnostic Products, Nutritional Products, and Medical Devices. The company offers generic pharmaceuticals for the treatment of pancreatic exocrine insufficiency, irritable bowel syndrome or biliary spasm, intrahepatic chol…
| Sector | Healthcare |
| Industry | Medical Devices |
| Analyst range | $103 – $135 |
| Employees | 122,000 |
| Instrument | ST |
| Jurisdiction tags | healthcare |
Inside this member's remit. Their committees cover defenseenergyhealthcareindustrialsmaterialstechnologytelecomtransportutilities
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 ABT
| Grade | Date | Member | Side | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | 17 Jul 2026 | Mike Kelly | sale | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| D | 08 Jul 2026 | Rick Larsen | sale | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| E | 16 Jun 2026 | Gilbert Cisneros | purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| E | 12 Jun 2026 | Richard Dean Dr McCormick | purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| E | 12 Jun 2026 | Richard Dean Dr McCormick | purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| D | 27 May 2026 | Josh Gottheimer | sale partial | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| E | 15 May 2026 | Gilbert Cisneros | sale | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| E | 12 May 2026 | Julie Johnson | sale | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| B | 16 Apr 2026 | Richard W. Allen | sale | $15,001 - $50,000 |
| E | 27 Mar 2026 | Alan Armstrong | sale | $15,001 - $50,000 |
| D | 24 Mar 2026 | Laura Friedman | exchange | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| E | 19 Mar 2026 | Richard Dean Dr McCormick | purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| E | 10 Feb 2026 | Gilbert Cisneros | sale partial | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| B | 29 Jan 2026 | Thomas H. Kean Jr | purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| E | 19 Dec 2025 | Gilbert Cisneros | sale partial | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| E | 18 Dec 2025 | Julie Johnson | sale | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| B | 08 Dec 2025 | Julia Letlow | sale | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| D | 04 Dec 2025 | Byron Donalds | sale | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| E | 04 Dec 2025 | Byron Donalds | sale | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| E | 18 Nov 2025 | Gilbert Cisneros | purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| E | 13 Nov 2025 | Julie Johnson | sale partial | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| E | 05 Nov 2025 | Richard Dean Dr McCormick | purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| D | 06 Oct 2025 | Rick Larsen | purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| E | 14 Aug 2025 | Julie Johnson | sale partial | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| B | 21 Jul 2025 | Thomas H. Kean Jr | purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 |
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