Earl L. "Buddy" Carter Stock Trades

Earl L. "Buddy" Carter

The clearest pattern in Representative Buddy Carter's disclosure record is not a single large trade but a change in the kind of instrument he trades. The Georgia Republican's earliest disclosures, running from 2015 through 2019, are dominated by small municipal bond purchases tied to his home state, mostly in the $15,001 to $50,000 range. By 2025 and 2026, the five transaction rows, still self-attributed, have shifted entirely to U.S. Treasury bills carried in the $500,001 to $5,000,000 range. The disclosed ranges are substantially larger than those attached to most of the earlier municipal bond transactions, paired with a move toward government paper.

Across the full record, the disclosure database shows 47 transactions dated between March 11, 2015 and May 7, 2026: 26 purchases and 21 sales, with no transactions of any other type. Every one of the 47 is coded as a "Self" transaction, meaning none are attributed to a spouse, dependent, joint account, or an unknown filer category. That is a meaningful data point on its own: whatever pattern emerges here reflects Carter's own disclosed activity, not a family member's.

Buying Years, Then a Selling Stretch, Then Treasuries

The year-by-year breakdown tells a cleaner story than any single trade. 2019 was a pure buying year: seven transactions, all purchases, all Georgia government securities tied to transit authorities, public buildings, university housing, a performing arts complex, and a state refunding issue. 2020 continued that pattern with five purchases against a single sale.

The activity then flips. 2021 brought five sales against two purchases, including a cluster of five sales dated December 28, 2021, each disclosure noting the security as a "New Subholding Of: Morgan Stanley Unified Management Account." That language, drawn directly from the filings, places the five entries, Winslow Large Cap Growth, Eaton Vance Large Value, Neuberger Berman International ADR, Sterling Capital Management Mid Value, and an Uniplan Investment Equity REIT holding, within the same named account, while the database records each row as a separate sale.

2023 was a seven-for-seven selling year, with no purchases at all. Five of those seven sales, spanning Eaton Vance Large Value, Kayne Anderson Small Quality Value, Sterling Capital Management Mid Value, and Neuberger Berman International ADR, carry the same May 1, 2023 transaction date and were disclosed together on May 9, 2023. A sixth 2023 sale, a partial sale of Winslow Large Cap Growth also dated May 1, was not disclosed until June 12, 2024, more than a year later; a Georgia municipal bond sale dated September 1, 2023, was not disclosed until June 28, 2024. The Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act generally requires disclosure within 45 days of a transaction; both of these filings landed well outside that window, based on the transaction and disclosure dates in the record.

2024 shows a fourth pattern: four sales, zero purchases, all four in Ameris Bancorp common stock (ticker ABCB), executed as partial sales dated July 18, 19, and 23, and all disclosed together on July 24, 2024. Ameris Bancorp is the bank holding company for Ameris Bank, operating through banking, retail mortgage, warehouse lending, and premium finance divisions, and is headquartered in Atlanta. It is classified in the Financials sector under the Banks industry. Those four ABCB sales make Ameris Bancorp the most frequently disclosed security in Carter's record at four transactions, all sales, the most recent dated July 23, 2024.

2025 marks the pivot to Treasury bills: a purchase in the $500,001 to $1,000,000 range on February 28, a purchase in the $1,000,001 to $5,000,000 range on April 15, and a same-day purchase and sale, both in the $1,000,001 to $5,000,000 range, on June 17. Those paired June transaction rows were disclosed together on July 8, 2025. The single 2026 transaction on record, a Treasury bill sale in the $1,000,001 to $5,000,000 range dated May 7 and disclosed May 8, continues that same instrument and disclosed range.

Most Frequently Disclosed Securities

Outside Ameris Bancorp, only two other individual tickers appear in the record. AGL Resources, Inc. (ticker GAS) was purchased in September 2015 and sold in July 2016, two transactions total. Omnicare, Inc. (ticker OCR) appears once, a sale dated August 18, 2015, disclosed nearly a year later on August 9, 2016. The disclosure database does not carry a company description or sector classification for either name.

Sector activity in the record splits into two buckets: 43 of the 47 transactions carry an "Unknown" sector classification, largely reflecting the municipal securities, named funds, managed-account entries, and Treasury bills that dominate the record and do not map to a corporate sector, while 4 transactions, all the ABCB sales, are classified as Financials. No Quantellect Score is currently published for Carter; the most recent scoring cycle, dated August 21, 2026, covers 73 of the 537 sitting members of Congress, and no score row exists for him at that date.

Disclosure Notes

This profile is built from transactions self-reported by Representative Carter under the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act of 2012, as filed with the Clerk of the House. Disclosed amounts are reported in ranges, not exact figures, per House disclosure rules; see the House Committee on Ethics financial disclosure instruction guide for filing methodology. This profile reflects disclosed transactions only; it does not represent a current portfolio or current holdings, and it is not investment advice.