Pelosi reveals the sale of Nvidia and Apple shares, the purchase of others

Congressional stock transaction disclosures, known as regular transaction reports, cover transactions made by both the member of Congress and the spouse.

Ian Krager, a spokesman for the former speaker, told FOX Business: « Speaker Pelosi owns no stock and has no prior knowledge or subsequent involvement in any transactions. »

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Pelosi’s announcement indicated a purchase of 50 Call options Alphabet, the parent company of Google, and 50 call options for Amazon, according to his most recent regular transaction report filed with the House Clerk.

Both call options have a strike price of $150 and are valued between $250,001 and $500,000. Call options give investors the right to buy shares of a company at a certain price.

Ticker	Safety	Take	Change	Change %
AAPL	APPLE INC.	222.64	-7.34	-3.19%
NVDA	NVIDIA CORP.	140.83	+3.12	+2.27%
GOOGLE	ALPHABET INC.	198.05	+2.05	+1.05%
AMZN	AMAZON.COM INC.	230.71	+4.77	+2.11%

The announcement showed the sale of 10,000 Nvidia shares and 31,600 Apple shares on December 31st. Following the sale, on January 14, Paul Pelosi purchased 50 more Nvidia call options with an exercise price of $80 ranging from $250,000 to $500,000. Pelosi also exercised 500 call options on Nvidia on December 20. They had a redemption price of $12 and were set to expire on the same day.

This deal was between $500,000 and $1 million.

The former speaker’s release also noted several other investments made in the past month, including 140 call options on 14,000 shares. Palo Alto Networks at a strike price of $100, which was set to expire on December 20 in a deal reported to be between $1 million and $5 million.

Pelosi also announced that she purchased 50 Tempus AI call options with a $20 strike price and 50 Vistra Corp. call options with a $50 strike price on Jan. 14. The Vistra purchase was between $500,000 and $1 million, while Tempus was between $50,000 and $100,000.

Ticker	Safety	Take	Change	Change %
VST	VISTRA OYJ	185.35	+14.49	+8.48%
TEM	YOU HAVE TIME	47.64	+12.49	+35.53%

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Paul Pelosi’s investments have come under scrutiny as members of Congress and their immediate family members have been increasingly called upon to ban stock trading.

Ticker	Safety	Take	Change	Change %
V	VISA INC.	323.63	+4.01	+1.25%

Last fall, Paul Pelosi sold more than $500,000 worth of Visa stock ahead of a Justice Department antitrust lawsuit against the credit card giant. An analysis earlier last year estimated that he earned the couple nearly $4 million over a six-month period. Nvidia Call Options he bought in November 2023.

Lawmakers’ spouses can trade in businesses or industries that their partner may help regulate, but it’s illegal members of congress and their family members to benefit from inside information.

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Members of Congress on both sides of the political aisle have proposed legislation in recent years that would bar lawmakers and their family members from owning stocks. Bipartisan bills for this were drafted in the Senate during the previous Congress, but neither became law before the end of the 118th Congress, so the matter was left to the current Congress.

FOX Business’ Breck Dumas contributed to this report.