Trump vs. Pelosi: Who Made More Money in the Stock Market Last Year?

Danielle Liverance

Mon, July 6, 2026 at 8:09 AM EDT 4 min read

Quick Read

Pelosi beat SPY with a 20% gain in 2025, and Trump bought DELL months before publicly urging Americans to buy it, which surged 107%.
Pelosi’s decade cumulative return of 816% nearly tripled Berkshire Hathaway’s 282%, despite both politicians publicly supporting a congressional trading ban.
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Two of the most-watched retail trading proxies in America filed very different sets of paperwork last year. Nancy Pelosi averaged roughly one trade every 22 days over the past 12 years. Donald Trump logged more than 21,000 stock trades across eight investment accounts in 2025, roughly 60 trades per day, according to Financial Times and EBC Financial Group analysis. Both beat the market.

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The 2025 Scorecard

Pelosi’s portfolio gained 20.1% in 2025, outperforming the S&P 500’s 16.6% gain, according to the UnusualWhales annual report, which ranked her 28th among all congressional traders that year. The benchmark she topped, the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSEARCA:SPY), returned 16.64% for the calendar year. Her disclosed 2025 trading volume was $48.6 million, up from $39.2 million in 2024, per Quiver Quantitative.

Trump’s stock-only return cannot be precisely calculated. Federal financial disclosures report holdings in dollar ranges rather than exact figures, and his 927-page disclosure mixes stock activity with real estate, crypto, and media income totaling roughly $2.2 billion in 2025. In Q1 2026 alone he disclosed over 3,600 trades worth between $220 million and $750 million, per Reuters, which by the upper bound exceeds Pelosi’s total disclosed trading volume since 2014 of $271.5 million across 213 trades.

Pelosi’s Long Game

Capitol Trades pegs Pelosi’s cumulative return over the past decade at approximately 816%, with an 87% win rate and an estimated net worth of $642 to $649 million as of mid-2026, up from $121 million in 2013. For comparison, Berkshire Hathaway generated roughly 282% cumulative return over the same period.

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Her 2025 standouts included January 2025 Nvidia call options with an $80 strike expiring January 2026. Shares of NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) rose 34.88% in 2025 alone. She also held Alphabet and Amazon call options at $150 strikes, and shares of Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL) have climbed 91% since January 2, 2025. In 2026 she moved toward large-cap tech, exercising Alphabet and Amazon options for actual shares and buying Intel and Uber call options in May 2026. One retail copy-trading portfolio mimicking her moves was up 72% in 2025. It’s worth noting that Pelosi’s husband was an ex-venture capitalist and the trades he directs are included in her disclosures.