Peter Welch Stock Trades

Peter Welch Congressional Trading Profile | Quantellect Peter Welch Congressional Trading Profile

Peter Welch's disclosure record shows trading activity that wound down before he arrived in the chamber where he now serves. The final transactions in 2021 include a dense cluster of sales dated November 18, November 19 and November 26, spanning securities from International Business Machines and Union Pacific to Qualcomm, Cisco, PayPal, Church & Dwight, Agilent Technologies and Tennant Company. Every entry in that November cluster was filed as a sale. Several entries in the filing are marked "FILINg STATUS: New" and grouped under "Welch Account"; the disclosure does not state why those labels were used. The disclosure filed December 17, 2021 covers that final 2021 stretch. A later House disclosure filed August 13, 2022 reports a July 16, 2019 purchase, but no transaction in the disclosed record is dated after November 26, 2021.

That timing matters. All 336 disclosed transactions in this record were filed through the House Clerk's disclosure system, and the latest transaction date, November 26, 2021, predates the January 3, 2023 start of Welch's current Senate term. The record here reflects his House-era trading; it does not extend into his Senate service.

From Active Trading to a One-Way Wind-Down

The activity was not always this lopsided. Welch's disclosed trading dates back to December 10, 2013, and the annual counts show a trader who was, for years, transacting in both directions: 2016 was the busiest year on record with 83 transactions (33 purchases, 50 sales), followed by 56 in 2017 (29 purchases, 25 sales) and 52 in 2018 (23 purchases, 29 sales). Sales outnumbered purchases in most years, but purchases remained a consistent part of the pattern through 2019, when the two were nearly balanced at 13 purchases against 14 sales.

The shift shows up starting in 2020. That year brought 8 purchases against 18 sales, and by 2021, disclosed purchases stopped appearing altogether: all 22 transactions that year were sales, including the November cluster described above. The last disclosed purchases in the record, by transaction date, were a run of small buys in February and March 2020, Church & Dwight, Qiagen, Frontdoor, Consolidated Edison, Medtronic and PayPal among them, after which the record shows selling only. Total activity across the full record breaks down to 138 purchases, 195 sales and 3 other transactions, a ratio that understates how one-sided the final two years were.

Attribution is mostly straightforward: 291 of the 336 transactions are coded directly to Welch himself. A smaller but non-trivial share, 37 transactions, is attributed to a jointly held account, and 7 are attributed to a spouse, including a September 2021 sale of Exxon Mobil shares. One transaction is attributed to a dependent child. Readers should treat the joint- and spouse-attributed trades as reflecting a household account rather than Welch's individual decision-making.

What Recurred: Industrials, Technology and the Russell 2000 ETF

Across the full nine-year record, no single company was disclosed more often than United Parcel Service, which appears in eight separate transactions (five purchases, three sales), the most recent a November 2020 sale. UPS is a package-delivery and logistics carrier operating through U.S. domestic and international segments, and its repeated appearance alongside FedEx (four transactions) and Union Pacific ties into the record's broader tilt toward Industrials, which accounts for 31 of the transactions with a known sector, tied with Information Technology at 31. First Solar, a maker of thin-film photovoltaic solar modules, was disclosed six times (two purchases, four sales) through April 2020, and the iShares Russell 2000 ETF appears five times between June and September 2019, with two purchases and three sales.

Beyond Industrials and Information Technology, Health Care accounts for 23 of the sector-classified transactions, Financials 18, Consumer Discretionary 13 and Consumer Staples 11; Communication Services, Utilities, Energy and Real Estate each appear in the single digits. The single largest category in the sector breakdown, however, is "Unknown" at 201 transactions, a reflection of how many disclosed securities in this record, including names such as Kyocera, Cloetta, Kubota and Vaisala, and instruments such as U.S. Treasury notes, carry no sector classification in the underlying data. That gap means the sector totals above describe only the portion of the record where a classification exists, not the full 336 transactions.

Individual names that recurred at smaller scale include Lindsay Corporation, an irrigation-equipment and road-infrastructure manufacturer, disclosed five times with a lean toward selling (one purchase, four sales); Autoliv, an automotive safety-systems maker, four times; and State Street and Ameriprise Financial, both asset-management and financial-services firms, appearing three to four times each. Agilent Technologies, a life-sciences and diagnostics instrumentation company, and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, a biopharmaceutical firm, each surface multiple times within the Health Care activity. None of these patterns amounts to a stated strategy in the disclosures themselves; they describe what was filed, not why.

Disclosure Notes and Scope

• No Quantellect Score is currently available for this subject. As of the latest scoring date, August 21, 2026, scores are published for 76 members, 73 of whom are among the 537 sitting members of Congress; no score row exists for Welch at that date.
• Members of Congress file trade disclosures under the STOCK Act of 2012, and Senate disclosure procedures are separately administered under Senate Select Committee on Ethics guidance. All filings referenced in this profile were made through the House disclosure system and predate Welch's current Senate term.
• This profile reflects transaction disclosures only.
• Of the 537 sitting members of Congress, 276 have zero disclosed trades on record (237 House, 39 Senate), for context on how the scale of this record compares across the chamber.