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Did Vern Buchanan Beat the Stock Market?
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Did Vern Buchanan beat the stock market? We cannot answer with a clean yes or no yet. Buchanan has a real STOCK Act trail—about 121 disclosed trades (45 purchases, 76 sales)—but our system does not currently publish a scored return comparing his disclosed buys with the S&P 500.
The short answer
| Question | What our data shows |
|---|---|
| Did disclosed buys beat the S&P 500? | Not scored yet |
| How much activity do we see? | About 121 disclosed trades in our database |
| Did he pick great days to trade? | Not scored yet |
So the honest answer today is: we do not have the scoreboard numbers yet—only the filings.
How we usually answer this question
For politicians with enough priced purchases, we estimate how disclosed buys did and compare that to buying the S&P 500 (via SPY) with the same money on the same days. That is how we answer pages like Did Nancy Pelosi Beat the Stock Market? or Did Donald Trump Beat the Stock Market?.
Buchanan's page is earlier in that pipeline. The disclosures exist; the return and timing scores are still catching up.
What to watch next
When the numbers arrive, two different questions become answerable:
- Returns — Did disclosed buys beat matched S&P 500 purchases?
- Timing — Were trade dates better than a coin flip (50%) on those same stocks?
Until then, headlines about beating the market are running ahead of what we can measure on his page.
Track this on Politician Stock Tracker
Follow Buchanan's page as scores fill in on Politician Stock Tracker at his Vern Buchanan stock tracker page—or browse politicians beating the market for members who already have return rankings.
Disclaimer
Data compiled from public STOCK Act financial disclosure filings. Return and timing scores were not available for this politician at the time of writing. Not investment advice.