Pete Ricketts Stock Trades

Pete Ricketts Trading Activity | Quantellect

The transaction record disclosed under Senator Pete Ricketts' name in 2023 contains twenty-nine sales and one purchase, and all thirty of the year's disclosed trades were attributed to his spouse rather than to the senator himself. Every disclosed equity transaction was a full sale: twenty-five separate securities were sold on a single day, September 21, 2023, spanning health care, industrials, energy, financials, consumer staples, consumer discretionary, materials, real estate and communication services. The result is a concentrated, same-day series of sales across a diverse group of securities.

The disclosure record for Ricketts, a Nebraska Republican who began his current Senate term on November 5, 2024, covers thirty transactions with transaction dates between January 18, 2023 and September 21, 2023. The first five were disclosed on February 17, 2023, and the twenty-five September transactions were disclosed on October 20, 2023. Every one of the thirty carries the attribution code SP, meaning each transaction was attributed to his spouse, not to the senator personally. Twenty-nine were sales and one was a purchase.

A Single Day of Equity Sales

The bulk of the activity, twenty-five transactions, landed on September 21, 2023, and every one of them was a full sale. Health care was the most heavily represented sector on that date, with six names disclosed: Abbott Laboratories, CVS Health, Johnson & Johnson, Medtronic, Merck, and UnitedHealth Group. Industrials followed with four: General Dynamics, Automatic Data Processing, Emerson Electric, and Union Pacific. Consumer staples accounted for three, Coca-Cola, Procter & Gamble, and Philip Morris International, while consumer discretionary contributed two, McDonald's and Yum! Brands. Energy, financials, materials, and real estate each appear twice: APA Corporation and Equinor; PNC Financial Services and Western Alliance Bancorporation; CF Industries and Nutrien; and Prologis and CubeSmart. Communication services is represented once, by Verizon. Berkshire Hathaway Class B shares were also sold that day, though the disclosure carries no listed sector. Each of these twenty-five sales fell in the $50,001 to $250,000 disclosed range, and all were filed as full sales rather than partial sales.

The breadth of that single session, more than two dozen securities across nine identified sectors, is the defining feature of the record. Nothing in the disclosures explains the timing, and the filings do not distinguish a strategic reallocation from an account restructuring, so the data supports describing the scope of the sales but not their motive.

What Was Traded, and What It Tells Investors

The health care group sold that day covers a wide cross-section of the industry: Abbott and Medtronic in devices and diagnostics, Merck and Johnson & Johnson in pharmaceuticals, and CVS Health and UnitedHealth Group on the payer and pharmacy-benefit side. The industrial names, Union Pacific's freight rail network, General Dynamics' defense and aerospace businesses, ADP's payroll and human-capital software, and Emerson's industrial automation and measurement equipment, span transportation, defense and enterprise technology rather than a single theme. The consumer names, Coca-Cola, Procter & Gamble, Philip Morris, McDonald's and Yum! Brands, include large, well-established consumer-staples companies and restaurant franchisors. CF Industries and Nutrien are nitrogen and crop-nutrient producers, while Prologis and CubeSmart are real estate investment trusts focused on logistics warehousing and self-storage, respectively. APA Corporation and Equinor are oil and gas producers, and PNC and Western Alliance are regional and super-regional banks. Verizon rounds out the day as the lone communication-services security sold.

Earlier in the year, before those September sales, the disclosed activity was entirely in municipal bonds rather than equities. On February 9, 2023, the spouse-attributed account purchased a New York City Transitional Finance Authority revenue bond in the $50,001 to $100,000 range. In the weeks prior, three general obligation bonds, from Georgia, Massachusetts and New York State, and one school-district revenue bond from Aubrey, Texas, were sold in amounts ranging from $50,001 to $250,000, with transaction dates between January 18 and February 6, 2023. Those five transactions, filed together on February 17, 2023, mark the only disclosed activity before the equity sales that followed seven months later.

The available transaction data spans a single year, 2023, so it does not establish how the pattern changed over a longer stretch. What it shows is one municipal-bond purchase, one small cluster of bond sales in the first quarter, and one large, same-day, multi-sector series of equity sales in September. As measured on August 22, 2026, 276 of the 537 sitting members of Congress had no disclosed trades on record, so thirty filed transactions, even concentrated in this way, stand apart from the majority who showed no trading activity.

Disclosure Notes

All transactions described above were disclosed under Senator Pete Ricketts' name pursuant to the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act and are attributed in the underlying filings to his spouse, not to the senator personally. The available record consists of transaction disclosures and does not establish current ownership. Figures reflect the disclosed value ranges required by law, not exact transaction amounts. Source filings are available via the periodic transaction report covering the September 2023 disclosures and the periodic transaction report covering the January and February 2023 disclosures. Background on congressional disclosure obligations is available from the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act of 2012 and the Senate Select Committee on Ethics financial disclosure guidance.