Blake Moore Stock Trades — Portfolio, Trading History & STOCK Act Filings

Blake Moore has represented Utah's 1st congressional district since January 2021. Before Congress, he worked as a foreign service officer at the U.S. Department of State, serving diplomatic postings in Afghanistan, Colombia, and the Philippines. He earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Utah and a master's degree from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. His committee assignments are central to his trading story. Moore initially served on the House Armed Services Committee, the Natural Resources Committee, and the Budget Committee. In the 118th Congress, he moved to the powerful House Ways and Means Committee — the first Utahn Republican ever to serve on it — overseeing tax policy, trade, Social Security, and healthcare. He also sits on the Budget Committee. Moore's estimated net worth ranges from $7.6 million to $9.8 million, per Quiver Quantitative. The bulk comes from his wife's partnership income at a family real estate investment firm and a Washington, D.C., rental property. His congressional salary of $174,000 is a smaller piece of the picture.

Moore entered Congress with an active trading style — individual stock transactions across tech, financials, consumer cyclicals, and defense. His early 2021 trades suggest someone managing a diversified portfolio rather than swinging for home runs. The trade sizes are modest: most fall in the $1,001 to $15,000 range, with a few reaching $50,000 to $100,000. I tracked his January 19, 2024, filings the day they hit the House Clerk's system — and the pattern was unmistakable. On that single day, Moore sold at least a dozen individual stock positions: Apple, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Alphabet, Disney, Bank of America, American Express, Berkshire Hathaway, Johnson & Johnson, RTX, Boeing, Alibaba, and HealthEquity. Simultaneously, he bought two ETFs — the SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY) for $100,001 to $250,000 and the Vanguard Growth ETF (VUG) for over $102,000. The move shifted his portfolio from a collection of individual stock picks to a concentrated ETF-heavy allocation, roughly 60% of his tracked assets in two broad-market funds. This looks like someone who decided active stock-picking was not worth the compliance headache. Moore also co-sponsored the TRUST in Congress Act, which would require all members to place their assets in qualified blind trusts. He set up his own blind trust in 2022, though critics note these trusts do not require selling existing holdings so the lawmaker often knows what they own.

One of Moore's more curious trades was his investment in Alibaba (BABA), the Chinese e-commerce giant. Moore has described the Chinese Communist Party as a "strategic adversary" and voted for numerous hawkish China bills, including the America COMPETES Act and the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act. Yet his portfolio included BABA stock and BABA options. I looked up the trade dates after reading about the conflict in the Salt Lake Tribune. The BABA trades fell in early 2021 — before the CCP's regulatory crackdown that erased roughly $600 billion of Chinese tech market cap that year. If he held through the summer, those options positions likely lost significant value. The optics, however, are straightforward: a member who votes on China policy owned stock in a Chinese company. Moore has said his financial advisor made the trades without his direct instruction, which is a common defense in STOCK Act cases and one that is hard to verify independently.