John Hoeven Stock Trades

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Senator John Hoeven's disclosure record spans 299 transactions from 2012 through April 2020, with a striking feature buried in the data: 102 of those transactions carry no identifiable sector at all. That is not a data error to explain away here; it is a structural feature of the record. The unclassified entries include mutual funds, North Dakota bank holding companies, and other instruments for which the dataset supplies no public-equity sector. Layered onto that is a second pattern: the latest transaction date is April 29, 2020, and no later transaction appears in this dataset.

Of the 299 total transactions, 196 were purchases and 98 were sales, with 5 classified as other transaction types. In 2019 alone, the record lists 42 transactions, 34 of them purchases and 8 sales. In 2012, it lists 54 transactions split between 33 purchases and 21 sales. The 2020 entries consist of 3 purchases, while the 2015 record contains 14 sales, 7 purchases, and 2 other transaction types.

Attribution matters here. Of the 299 transactions, 263 are coded SELF, 22 are UNKNOWN, meaning the source data does not specify the attribution, 7 are joint, 5 are spousal, and 2 are dependent child. All five spouse-coded transactions are among the WTW-coded entries. The packet contains a naming conflict within those records: the raw filing security name is Weight Watchers International, Inc., while the normalized company field labels WTW as Willis Towers Watson PLC. WTW is nevertheless the single most frequently disclosed ticker in the aggregate record, appearing in 11 transactions. Several of those entries, including a January 2019 full sale and purchases dated November 2018 and December 2017, are attributed specifically to Hoeven's spouse rather than to the senator personally.

Trading activity across blue chips, funds, and two North Dakota banks

Beyond WTW, the most frequently disclosed securities read like a diversified large-cap sampler: International Business Machines (IBM, 6 transactions), AbbVie (ABBV, 5), Invesco (IVZ, 5), McDonald's (MCD, 5), Apple (AAPL, 4), Caterpillar (CAT, 4), Meta Platforms (META, 4), and AT&T (T, 4). Classified-sector counts include Financials at 35, Consumer Discretionary at 32, Consumer Staples at 26, Industrials at 23, Information Technology at 22, and Health Care at 21. Communication Services, Energy, Materials, Utilities, and Real Estate account for the remaining classified activity at lower counts.

Two locally rooted instruments stand apart from the rest of the record. Transaction records dated April 2 and April 29, 2020, show self-attributed purchases of Westbrand, Inc., a bank holding company of First Western Bank based in Minot, North Dakota, in the $15,001 to $50,000 and $1,001 to $15,000 ranges, respectively. A self-attributed transaction dated October 28, 2019, records a purchase of Blackridge Financial, Inc., the bank holding company of Blackridge Bank in West Fargo, North Dakota, in the $5,000,001 to $25,000,000 range. Both are non-ticker instruments tied directly to Hoeven's home-state banking sector, a pattern distinct from the diversified public-market names that dominate the rest of the disclosures.

The transaction records also show a cluster of energy-sector activity in late 2019. Purchases dated November 4 include Exxon Mobil and Chevron, alongside Exelon and Two Harbors Investment Corp. The following day brought another Exxon Mobil purchase alongside Invesco. Purchases dated December 31 include Schlumberger and Marathon Petroleum, together with a Vanguard bond ETF and a Vanguard GNMA fund. Full sales of Kraft Heinz, Garrett Motion, a Templeton bond fund, and Resideo Technologies are dated December 23; both those sales and the December 31 purchases were disclosed on January 9, 2020. The December 31 entries mark the final transaction date of 2019.

Funds and diversified vehicles alongside single stocks

A meaningful share of the disclosed activity runs through pooled vehicles rather than individual equities: Fidelity Contrafund, T. Rowe Price New Horizons, JPMorgan Mid Cap Value, Templeton Global Bond Fund, a Vanguard intermediate-term bond ETF, a Vanguard GNMA fund, and BlackRock trusts including BlackRock Health Sciences Trust II and BlackRock Science and Technology Trust II, the latter appearing in multiple purchases through late 2019. Several fund entries have no assigned sector, contributing to the 102 transactions listed under the “Unknown” sector category.

Among the operating companies represented, the businesses span consumer staples names like Procter & Gamble, General Mills, and Anheuser-Busch InBev; industrial names like Deere, UPS, and Automatic Data Processing; and technology and communications names including Cisco, Intel, and Netflix. Real Estate activity includes Crown Castle, the cell tower REIT, and Simon Property Group. The packet's Financials classification also includes Prudential Financial, Wells Fargo, Blackstone Group, and MetLife.

Taken together, the record is broad in security type but bounded in time: transaction dates run from February 1, 2012, through April 29, 2020. Most rows are SELF-coded, while the remainder include spouse, joint, dependent-child, and unknown attribution, making attribution an essential part of reading the transaction history.

About this data

This Quantellect profile is built from Senator Hoeven's Senate financial disclosure filings, required under the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act of 2012. An official filing is available through the Senate Electronic Financial Disclosure system. The data reports transaction amounts as disclosed ranges rather than exact figures. SP denotes spouse attribution, JT denotes joint attribution, and DC denotes dependent-child attribution; transactions marked UNKNOWN lack specified attribution in the source data. This profile covers disclosed transaction activity only.