Michael K. Simpson Stock Trades

Michael K. Simpson Stock Trades

Idaho Republican Michael K. Simpson has disclosed 153 securities transactions since 2014, and the ledger tilts heavily toward selling: 101 sales against 52 purchases. The most striking feature of that record is not any single trade but its shape over time. Activity that once ran into the dozens of transactions a year has slowed to a trickle, with just one disclosed transaction in 2022 and one in 2023, following a dense three-day stretch from January 11 through 13, 2021.

That three-day stretch produced a wave of sales spanning gold and metals miners, European and Asia-Pacific utilities, telecom operators, and an oil and gas driller. Filings from that period associate several of these transaction entries with a Euro Pacific Capital IRA account. Read together, the January 2021 rows show a broad run of sales across internationally listed securities, several of which recur across two disclosures.

A Long Record That Has Gone Quiet

Simpson's disclosed trading has never been evenly paced. The heaviest years were 2015 (45 transactions, 19 purchases and 26 sales) and 2014 (40 transactions, 11 purchases and 29 sales), both dominated by sales, and 2021 (40 transactions, 2 purchases and 38 sales), dominated even more sharply. Between those peaks, activity dropped to single digits: 9 transactions in both 2016 and 2017, one in 2019, and just 7 in 2020. Since the January 2021 sales, disclosed activity has essentially stopped, with one purchase apiece in 2022 and 2023.

The two most recent disclosed transactions break from the pattern in a useful way: both are purchases, and both are U.S. financial institutions. On August 3, 2022, Simpson purchased shares of T. Rowe Price Group Inc (TROW) in the $15,001-$50,000 range, an asset manager based in Baltimore that runs equity and fixed income mutual funds globally. On March 14, 2023, he purchased U.S. Bancorp (USB), also in the $15,001-$50,000 range, a Minneapolis-based financial holding company offering banking, payments, wealth management and trust services across the United States. Both transactions were disclosed in the same filing on May 12, 2023. TROW was also purchased earlier, in June 2020, giving it purchase rows on two separate transaction dates.

The 2020 stretch stands out for the opposite reason: it was the one year purchases clearly outnumbered sales, 6 to 1. Five of those seven 2020 transactions were purchases dated March 25 and 26, spanning United Airlines Holdings, Boeing, Phillips 66, Chimera Investment Corporation, and the First Trust MLP and Energy Income Fund, all associated in the filing with a D.A. Davidson account. The sixth purchase was T. Rowe Price Group on June 12, while the year's lone sale was the First Trust Large Cap Value AlphaDEX Fund on August 27.

Frequently Disclosed Names and Sector Mix

Across the full 2014-2023 window, no single security dominates Simpson's trading activity. The most frequently disclosed is the First Trust Dow Jones Internet ETF (FDN), appearing in 5 transactions (3 purchases, 2 sales), last disclosed May 10, 2021. Other repeat names include the First Trust Health Care AlphaDEX Fund (FXH, 4 transactions), Precision Drilling Corporation (PDS, 4 transactions, all sales, last disclosed January 13, 2021), Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson's ADR (ERIC, 3 transactions), and the First Trust NYSE Arca Biotechnology ETF (FBT, 3 transactions). Among the international telecom names, Turkcell Iletisim Hizmetleri (TKC) appears in three transaction rows and Telefonica Brasil (VIV) in two.

Sector classification is available in our data for only 29 of the 153 disclosed transactions; the remaining 124 fall outside our sector taxonomy, largely reflecting the ETF share classes and foreign ordinary shares that make up much of the record. Among the transactions that do carry a sector tag, Energy leads with 7 (including the Precision Drilling and Equinor ASA sales), followed by Communication Services and Financials with 5 each, Industrials with 4, and Information Technology and Materials with 3 each. Health Care carries 2. No sector approaches a dominant share of the classified activity, and the unclassified majority means any sector read on Simpson's trading should be treated as partial rather than comprehensive.

Attribution across the full record is coded overwhelmingly as self: 152 of the 153 disclosed transactions carry the self code, with a single transaction coded joint. The data does not identify which specific transaction carries the joint code, so it should not be pinned to any one trade described above.

About This Profile

This profile is built from Michael K. Simpson's periodic transaction reports (PTRs) as disclosed under the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act of 2012 and filed with the Clerk of the House, per the House Committee on Ethics disclosure guide. Members report transactions in dollar ranges rather than exact amounts, and disclosure can lag the underlying trade date by weeks or months; the dates cited above distinguish the transaction date from the later disclosure date. This profile reflects disclosed transaction activity only. Quantellect reports those disclosures as transaction rows, which can include the same security in more than one filing. No Quantellect Score is currently published for Michael K. Simpson. The latest published score data is dated August 21, 2026; 73 of the 537 members sitting as of August 22 have a score. No transaction described here should be read as evidence of the reporting member's individual investment decision-making absent explicit attribution in the underlying filing.