Robert P. Bresnahan, Jr. Stock Trades

Robert P. Bresnahan, Jr. Stock Trading Activity

Robert P. Bresnahan, Jr., the Republican representing Pennsylvania's 8th District, disclosed 653 transactions between January 13, 2025 and July 1, 2026, a volume that places him well outside the norm for sitting members of Congress. As of August 22, 2026, 276 of the 537 sitting members of the House and Senate had disclosed zero trades at all, including 237 of 437 House members. Bresnahan's activity sits at the opposite end of that spectrum, and the pace itself tells a story: 648 of his 653 disclosed transactions, or nearly all of them, fall within calendar year 2025. Through July 1, 2026, the pace slowed to just five transactions, and every one of those five was a purchase of a municipal bond or U.S. Treasury note rather than a stock, option, or ETF. A trading pattern built on frequent equity and options activity in 2025 gave way, in the disclosures available so far for 2026, to plain fixed income.

Bresnahan carries a Quantellect score of 89 as of August 21, 2026, placing him in the "strong" tier and 9th in a 76-member scoring cohort. Of those 76 scored members, 73 were sitting members as of August 22, 2026.

A Heavy 2025, a Quiet 2026

Of the 653 disclosed transactions, 568 are attributed to Bresnahan personally and 85 are attributed to a joint account. The joint-account activity is visible around mid-September 2025: one IWM option purchase and one QQQ option purchase dated September 15 were attributed as Joint, while the same filing included self-attributed IWM, QQQ, and SPY option transactions dated September 15 and 16. Sales outnumbered purchases across the full disclosure history (370 sales versus 283 purchases), and some transaction dates came in blocks: a December 19, 2025 filing reported eight options purchases dated November 19, four involving Berkshire Hathaway Class B options and four involving SPDR S&P 500 ETF options, plus a $50,001 to $100,000 sale of Berkshire Hathaway Class B common stock dated the same day.

The five transactions disclosed so far in 2026 look nothing like that pattern. On February 3, 2026, Bresnahan purchased a Philadelphia, PA municipal bond ($50,001 to $100,000) and a U.S. Treasury Note maturing January 31, 2027 ($1,001 to $15,000). On February 20, 2026, he purchased a Parkland, PA School District municipal bond ($50,001 to $100,000), and on March 6, 2026, a Pennsylvania State Turnpike Commission bond ($50,001 to $100,000). The most recent disclosed transaction, filed August 12, 2026, was a July 1, 2026 purchase of a U.S. Treasury Note maturing June 30, 2027, in the $15,001 to $50,000 range. All five 2026 transactions are attributed to Bresnahan personally (self) and all are purchases, a pattern distinct from the higher-frequency, higher-turnover equity and options activity that defined the prior year.

Sector Concentration and Frequently Disclosed Names

Across the full 653-transaction history, Information Technology accounts for the largest share of activity at 189 transactions, followed by Health Care (103), Industrials (72), transactions with no sector assigned in the disclosure data (56, largely bonds and options that do not carry an equity sector classification), Consumer Discretionary (52), Communication Services (46), Financials (34), Consumer Staples (33), Energy (27), Materials (18), Utilities (12), and Real Estate (11).

NVIDIA Corporation (NVDA) is the single most frequently disclosed security, appearing in 14 transactions (8 purchases, 6 sales) with the most recent dated May 29, 2025. Robinhood Markets Inc. (HOOD), Intel Corporation (INTC), Meta Platforms Inc. (META), and Tesla Inc. (TSLA) each appear 10 times. Other names disclosed frequently include Alibaba Group Holding (BABA, 9 transactions), Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Class B (BRK.B, 9 transactions), Microsoft Corporation (MSFT, 9), Texas Instruments (TXN, 7), and Zoom Video Communications (ZM, 7), among a longer list of technology and communications names that also includes Broadcom, Atlassian, Snowflake, ServiceNow, Okta, Palantir, CrowdStrike, and Arista Networks.

A July 8, 2025 filing covered a batch of transactions dated from June 2 through June 25. That batch included purchases of Circle Internet Group (CRCL) and Coinbase Global (COIN) on June 24, 2025, both of which operate in digital-asset infrastructure; Circle "operates as a platform, network, and market infrastructure for stablecoin and blockchain applications," while Coinbase "operates platform for crypto assets" for both consumers and institutions, per the company descriptions in the disclosure data. The same filing recorded a purchase of Broadcom Inc. (AVGO), a semiconductor and infrastructure-software company, on June 11, 2025, alongside sales that day in Intel, Datadog, GitLab, and Atlassian, plus a purchase of field-service software company ServiceTitan (TTAN).

A separate filing covering May 15, 2025 shows a broad set of single-day transactions across sectors: sales in utility Consolidated Edison; industrial companies Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies and Waste Management; materials companies PPG Industries and Eastman Chemical; health names Cooper Companies and Centene; financial-services firm Marsh & McLennan; and real estate investment trusts Healthpeak Properties and Alexandria Real Estate Equities, alongside purchases of defense contractor Lockheed Martin and managed-care insurer Molina Healthcare. On December 19, 2025, Bresnahan disclosed a December 11 sale of Kellanova (K), the snack-foods maker behind brands including Pringles, Cheez-It, and Pop-Tarts, in the $1,001 to $15,000 range.

Taken together, the disclosures show a member whose 2025 trading activity was frequent, options-heavy in index products (SPY, QQQ, IWM) and in Berkshire Hathaway, and concentrated in large-cap technology and semiconductor names, with periodic broad multi-sector transaction days. The 2026 disclosures available to date show a narrower, purely fixed-income pattern of municipal bond and Treasury purchases, all attributed as Self.

Disclosure and Methodology Notes

• All transaction data reflects official financial disclosure filings made under the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act of 2012, which requires members of Congress to disclose covered securities transactions.
• Dollar amounts reflect disclosed ranges, not exact transaction values, per the House Committee on Ethics financial disclosure instruction guide.
• Transactions attributed as "Self" reflect the filing's Self designation; transactions attributed as "Joint" reflect a jointly held account as designated on the underlying filing. No transactions in this dataset were attributed to a spouse, dependent child, or an unknown filer.
• This profile reflects disclosed transaction activity only, as filed with the Clerk of the House across multiple periodic transaction reports, including filings dated July 8, 2025, December 19, 2025, and August 12, 2026.
• Nothing in this profile constitutes investment advice or a recommendation to buy or sell any security.