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Robert P. Bresnahan, Jr.

RepublicanRepresentative · PA-8

Current term began Jan 2025Files in batches: 39 trades per form, 91% under $15,000Quiet since Dec 2025

3.6 points ahead of the S&P 500

Copying Bresnahan's 259 purchases from the day each became public: +36.8%. The S&P over the same days: +33.2%.

Buys only, each purchase counted equally, not what Bresnahan earned. 18 of the 48 members with five or more priced purchases are ahead of the index. The typical member trails it by 2.8 points. This account files in batches, so the score describes the account, not the member's picks.

Disclosed trades: 624; 266 purchases · 358 sales · made public since January 2025
Disclosed volume: $6.7M; midpoints of the reported ranges, not what Bresnahan owns
Made public: 30 days; Half of Bresnahan's trades were made public within 30 days; Congress overall 28; the law allows 45.
On time: 100%; 79% across Congress

Robert Bresnahan is a businessman serving as the United States representative for Pennsylvania's 8th congressional district

Robert Paul Bresnahan Jr. is a businessman and politician. He has represented Pennsylvania's 8th congressional district since 2025 and is a member of the Republican Party. He took office after defeating incumbent Matt Cartwright in the 2024 election.

Bresnahan's business background provides professional context, but the source identifies no industry or specific market expertise. His committee work covers transportation, agriculture and small business.

businessman · politician

Generated with AI, awaiting an editor · from Wikipedia · not from the filings

What the filings show

A Pennsylvania House Republican whose disclosures show frequent buying and selling across many stocks

Bresnahan buys and sells individual stocks very frequently, spreading activity across many names without a dominant position in disclosed trading. Options appear occasionally alongside stocks, while technology leads the sector mix. Most activity is reported in his own accounts, with some in jointly held accounts.

What to watch

Filings have met disclosure deadlines; keep an eye on whether that record holds as frequent trading continues.
Joint accounts appear alongside his own accounts, so ownership matters when reading individual transactions.
Options appear occasionally; a larger role for them would change the mix of disclosed instruments.

Generated with AI, awaiting an editor, from the member’s own filings · carries no figures and makes no claim about performance

Filings that stood out

this member's highest Signal Scores · of 100, how much a filing stands out, not a rating · sorted by score, never by price move

BRK.BPURCHASE76

Traded Jan 15, 2025 · public Feb 13, 2025 · $50,001 - $100,000 · Call options · Self

3+ members traded it the same way within 14 days▲
Larger than this member's usual trade▲
Options bet▲

BRKBPURCHASE68

Traded Nov 19, 2025 · public Dec 19, 2025 · $15,001 - $50,000 · Call options · Self

Larger than this member's usual trade▲
Options bet▲
New position▲

PEPPURCHASE65

Traded Apr 8, 2025 · public May 8, 2025 · $15,001 - $50,000 · Self

Sits on a committee covering this industry▲
3+ members traded it the same way within 14 days▲
Larger than this member's usual trade▲

Since the trade · most-traded names

BRK.B

$526today+4.9%since trade

SPY

$772today+16.5%since trade

GOOG

$345today+121.5%since trade

Committee overlap

17.5%

of disclosed volume sits in Industrials, Materials and Consumer Staples, the industries House Transportation and Infrastructure and House Agriculture oversee. Trading in an overseen industry is legal; the STOCK Act does not bar it.

Small Business is not in our industry map.

Sector mix · disclosed trades

Information Technology 189
Health Care 103
Industrials 72
Consumer Discretionary 52
Communication Services 48
Other sectors 149
Index funds and unmapped 11

The slices sum to the 624 disclosed trades; the last slice is index funds and names our map cannot place.

Month by month · purchases up, sales down

purchases, above the line
sales, below it
a month with nothing filed

Trades arrive in batches because Bresnahan files many at once: 39 per form on average.

Public information from STOCK Act filings. Amounts are reported in ranges and shown as midpoints, filings arrive after the trades, and no personal profit or loss is disclosed. Not financial advice.

Loading the dossier

Congress

3.6 points ahead of the S&P 500

Copying Bresnahan's 259 purchases from the day each became public: +36.8%. The S&P over the same days: +33.2%.

Disclosed trades

624

266 purchases · 358 sales · made public since January 2025

Disclosed volume

$6.7M

midpoints of the reported ranges, not what Bresnahan owns

Made public

30 days

Half of Bresnahan's trades were made public within 30 days; Congress overall 28; the law allows 45.

On time

100%

79% across Congress