John H. Rutherford Stock Trades

John H. Rutherford Stock Trading Activity | Quantellect John H. Rutherford Stock Trading Activity

Between July 2017 and April 2023, Representative John H. Rutherford of Florida's 5th District disclosed 348 securities transactions: 177 purchases, 170 sales, and one other transaction. All 348 transaction rows are attributed to Rutherford himself; the data records zero transactions attributed to a spouse, joint ownership, a dependent child, or an unknown relationship. The most striking feature of the record is not any single trade but its shape over time: a burst of buying in 2017, a long stretch of modest, roughly balanced activity, and then a heavily sale-skewed year in 2022, when the record shows 121 transactions and 106 sales.

The 2022 activity includes a large block of transactions dated March 16. The year's 121 transactions comprised 15 purchases and 106 sales, and most of the itemized March 16 transactions were reported together in a filing covering dozens of separate securities across sectors and geographies. That filing lists sales of pharmaceutical names such as Bristol-Myers Squibb, Merck, AbbVie, Novartis, and Sanofi alongside banks (Bank of New York Mellon, KeyCorp, Truist, PNC, Fifth Third), industrial and materials companies (Caterpillar, Celanese, Eastman Chemical, Dow), energy majors (Chevron, Exxon Mobil, TotalEnergies), and a long list of non-U.S. names including Toyota, Honda, Siemens, Michelin, Zurich Insurance, Tokio Marine, Munich Re, and DNB Bank. An August 2, 2023 amended filing corrected the ticker symbols for two March 16 sales: DNHBY was changed to DNBBY for DNB Bank, and NNGPF was changed to NNGRY for NN Group. The filing identifies the original symbols as data-entry errors, says the corrected OTC symbols had not previously appeared in the filing system's stock catalog, and notes that the assets were transferred to the West End Traditional IRA before their sales.

The years before that sale-heavy event tell a different story. The packet's history begins in 2017 with 120 transactions, 108 of them purchases. Activity then settled into a steadier pattern: 31 transactions in 2018, 25 in 2019, and 31 in 2020, each roughly split between buys and sells. 2021 already leaned toward selling, with only 3 purchases against 16 sales. After March 2022, disclosed activity nearly stopped. The only subsequent transaction is an April 28, 2023 purchase of a 4 percent interest in "Sunshine Group Partners," reported without a ticker, company description, or sector classification in the data and disclosed in a filing signed May 25, 2023. That is the most recent transaction on record; the later August 2023 filing concerned amendments to older March 2022 transactions.

A globally broad, health-care-tilted trading pattern

Health Care is the largest classified sector in Rutherford's trading activity, with 30 transactions, followed by Consumer Staples (23), Industrials (20), and Energy (19). The most frequently disclosed health-care securities include Bristol-Myers Squibb (5 transactions), Roche Holding ADR (4), Novartis and Sanofi (3 each), and AbbVie, Amgen, AstraZeneca, and CVS Health (2 each). That cluster shows repeated transaction activity involving large pharmaceutical and health-care names during the disclosure period.

A second theme is geographic breadth. Alongside BCE (Canada) and Vale (Brazil), both among his most frequently disclosed names, the underlying transaction list includes ADRs and foreign ordinary shares spanning the United Kingdom (BAE Systems, Imperial Brands, British American Tobacco, Persimmon), continental Europe (BNP Paribas, Nestle, Deutsche Telekom, Iberdrola, Enel, Saint-Gobain, Michelin, Siemens), Scandinavia (DNB Bank, Svenska Handelsbanken), and Asia (SoftBank, Toyota, Honda, ASE Technology, Tokio Marine). Transactions without a sector classification form the single largest bucket in the data, at 136; the packet labels that category Unknown, and many of the named securities in the transaction data are ADRs or foreign ordinary shares.

Across the full sector breakdown, the count by classification is:

• Unknown: 136 transactions
• Financials: 36 transactions
• Health Care: 30 transactions
• Consumer Staples: 23 transactions
• Industrials: 20 transactions
• Energy: 19 transactions
• Materials: 17 transactions
• Consumer Discretionary: 16 transactions
• Information Technology: 16 transactions
• Utilities: 16 transactions
• Communication Services: 12 transactions
• Real Estate: 7 transactions

The itemized transaction data supplies disclosed ranges rather than exact dollar amounts. Those itemized transactions fall in the $1,001 to $15,000 range except for one sale, Celanese Corporation on March 16, 2022, reported in the $15,001 to $50,000 range. No transaction itemized in the packet has a higher disclosed band. Among 537 sitting members of Congress measured as of August 22, 2026, 276 have no disclosed trades at all; Rutherford's 348 transactions place him outside that group, although the annual history shows only one transaction after 2022.

Disclaimer

This Quantellect profile is based on financial disclosure filings made under the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act and reflects transactions as reported to the U.S. House of Representatives. It does not constitute investment advice or a recommendation to buy or sell any security. Disclosed transactions may be executed by the member, a spouse, a dependent child, or another party depending on the filing; attribution in this profile reflects only what the underlying disclosure specifies. For methodology on how members of Congress are required to report transactions, see the STOCK Act and the House Committee on Ethics financial disclosure guide.