Tommy Tuberville stock trading: Which Democrats, Republicans trade more than Alabama senator?

Out of the 535 members of Congress, Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville trades more stock than 98% of them.

And in the Senate, Tuberville trades more than his 99 colleagues. That’s according to Unusual Whales, a startup that helps investors track market activity. He also trails just a small number of House members.

Since the former Auburn football coach-turned-senator took office in January 2021, Tuberville has reported making more than 1,300 stock trades, per an AL.com analysis of his financial records. His stock trading activity has drawn public scrutiny and attention, even if he’s not the richest member of Congress or most successful investor.

Read the full AL.com story digging into Tuberville’s stock trading activity here.

Tuberville ranks 12th in Congress when it comes to the most trading activity, according to Unusual Whales, and he’s No. 5 among Republicans.

So who trades more than Tuberville? Here’s the top 11 from Unusual Whales, ranked comprehensively:

1. Rep. Ro Khanna (D-California): 10,679 trades
2. Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas): 9,740
3. Rep. Joshua Gottheimer (D-New Jersey): 3,731
4. Rep. Diana Harshbarger (R-Tennessee): 2,626
5. Rep. Lois Frankel (D-Florida): 2,302
6. Rep. Alan Lowenthal (D-California): 1,817
7. Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-North Carolina): 1,750
8. Rep. Susie Lee (D-Nevada): 1,733
9. Rep. Kevin Hern (R-Oklahoma): 1,305
10. Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minnesota): 1,260
11. Rep. Kathy Manning (D-North Carolina): 1,238

The rankings list Tuberville’s total recorded trades at 1,144, though that tally for the senator’s profile on Unusual Whales’ website hasn’t been updated since November. He’s since filed reports for trading as recently as April 15, per the Senate database of financial disclosure forms.

Tuberville reported 16 new transactions on Thursday, all but one of them sales of mostly tech and financial stock on April 15, according to the periodic transaction report.

The majority of congressional members disclose fewer than 100 stock trades per year, according to Unusual Whales.

Meanwhile, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, the Democrat and former Speaker of the House, also draws a lot of attention with her trading — so much that it’s prompted some Republicans, including President Donald Trump, to call for a ban on stock trading by members of Congress. Pelosi doesn’t trade nearly as often as Tuberville – Unusual Whales reports roughly 360 trades since 2014. But when she buys and sells stock, she trades big. For instance, on Dec. 31, she sold off between $5 million and $25 million worth of Apple Inc. stock and between $1 million and $5 million of Nvidia Corporation stock, according to her most recently filed periodic transaction report.

Pelosi, Tuberville and Vice President J.D. Vance, formerly a Senator from Ohio, are among just six people featured on the “invest like a politician” tracker from investment app Autopilot. The app allows users to connect their brokerage accounts and buy stock positions that replicate the politicians’ portfolio.

AL.com reviewed all of Tuberville’s annual and periodic disclosures about his trading activity for the last six years. Here’s what we found:

• Tuberville frequently makes trades of risky stock options, as well as trades stock and commodities in industries overseen by Senate committees he serves on.
• It’s impossible to know exactly how much money he makes. That’s despite him reporting more than 1,000 trades in four years.
• He has requested extensions in order to file each of his annual financial reports past the deadline.
• Katie Britt, Alabama‘s other senator, trades differently and far less often than Tuberville. She reported selling only one individual company stock since she first announced her candidacy in 2021.
• Most members of Congress, from both parties, don’t report much stock trading.