John Curtis Stock Trades — Congressional Portfolio Tracker

John Curtis stock trades are the congressional transaction disclosures filed under the STOCK Act by the junior Senator from Utah, a Republican who took office in January 2025 after representing Utah's 3rd district in the House since 2017. What sets Curtis apart from most congressional traders is that he deliberately unwound nearly all his individual stock holdings in December 2023 — a mass liquidation of dozens of tech and growth names — and shifted his portfolio into municipal bonds, opportunity zone funds, and private investments. I've tracked his filing history back to 2019, and that December 2023 sell-off is the single largest portfolio restructuring I have seen from any member of Congress during that period.

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Who Is John Curtis? From House to Senate

John Curtis (R-UT) entered the Senate on January 3, 2025, succeeding retiring Senator Mitt Romney. He previously represented Utah's 3rd congressional district in the House from 2017 to 2024. Before Congress, he served as mayor of Provo, Utah, from 2010 to 2017. He defeated primary challengers including Trent Staggs to win the Republican nomination and the general election in November 2024.

Curtis serves on four Senate committees in the 119th Congress: Commerce, Science, and Transportation; Environment and Public Works; Foreign Relations; and Small Business and Entrepreneurship. He chairs the EPW Subcommittee on Chemical Safety and the Foreign Relations Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere. He founded and chairs the Conservative Climate Caucus, a group of over 80 House Republicans focused on market-based climate policy — a caucus he established in 2021 and continues to lead from the Senate.

I cross-referenced his EPW and Foreign Relations committee assignments against his disclosed portfolio history. The overlap is indirect: his current EPW role oversees environmental regulations that affect energy-sector companies he formerly held, while his Foreign Relations position gives him exposure to international trade policy that shaped the global supply chain exposure in his past tech holdings.

Trading Style and the December 2023 Portfolio Liquidation

Curtis was an active trader through much of his House tenure but executed a dramatic shift in December 2023. On December 4, 2023, he filed a batch of sale transactions covering most of his individual stock positions — Apple (AAPL), Microsoft (MSFT), Nvidia (NVDA), Amazon (AMZN), Meta (META), KLA Corporation (KLAC), Adobe (ADBE), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), and Applied Materials (AMAT), among others. Each sale was in the $1,001 to $15,000 or $15,001 to $50,000 range. This bulk liquidation effectively ended his era of individual equity holdings.

His total disclosed trade volume across all filings adds up to approximately $5.8 million, according to Quiver Quantitative estimates. Prior to the liquidation, his portfolio showed a diversified mix of technology, semiconductor, and consumer names consistent with a growth-oriented strategy. Notable earlier trades include a Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A) sale in November 2019 for up to $100,000, a Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B) sale in March 2020 for up to $100,000, and an Apple (AAPL) purchase in March 2020 for up to $50,000 — a trade that would have appreciated roughly 278% by late 2025 based on AAPL's price trajectory.

After the liquidation, his reported holdings shifted to municipal bonds — including trades in Andrews TX Independent School District bonds and Prince Georges County MD GO bonds — and alternative assets. His 2025 annual financial disclosure, filed in September 2025 per Quiver Quantitative, showed major positions in PEG Opportunity Zone Investors LLC (up to $5 million), Sundance Debt Partners LLC (up to $5 million), and commercial real estate (up to $5 million). His estimated net worth is approximately $17.9 million, ranking 72nd highest in Congress.

In eighteen months of reviewing Curtis's filings, I have not seen him execute a single new individual stock purchase since that December 2023 liquidation — a pattern consistent with his stated intention to avoid the perception of conflicts of interest as he moved from the House to the Senate.

Notable Disclosed Trades and the ABT Controversy

Three specific trades in Curtis's history merit attention due to their timing and public scrutiny.

Abbott Laboratories (ABT) — March 4, 2020: Curtis purchased ABT stock in the $1,001 to $15,000 range on the same day Abbott received FDA emergency use authorization for its COVID-19 test. During the 2024 Utah GOP Senate primary debate, opponent Trent Staggs raised this trade as a potential insider trading issue. The KSL Truth Test confirmed the purchase date matched the FDA authorization date but found no evidence of a direct ethics violation. Curtis responded that the trade was made by a mutual fund manager without his knowledge and stated he had since divested all individual stocks. No formal ethics charge resulted.

Berkshire Hathaway Class A (BRK.A) — November 21, 2019: Sold up to $100,000 in BRK.A stock. Each Class A share was trading around $330,000 at the time, so this sale likely represented a fraction of a single share — illustrating the challenge of reading too much into the STOCK Act's wide dollar-amount ranges.

KLA Corporation (KLAC) — November 8, 2021: Purchased KLAC in the $1,001 to $15,000 range. KLAC is a semiconductor capital equipment company, consistent with Curtis's broader tech-sector exposure before the 2023 liquidation. He later sold his KLAC position on December 4, 2023 as part of the bulk sell-off.

Apple (AAPL) — March 27, 2020: Purchased AAPL for up to $50,000. Based on AAPL's share price of roughly $62 (split-adjusted) in late March 2020 versus the ~$250 level in late 2025, this position would have grown approximately 4x if held — though the December 2023 sale means Curtis captured only the appreciation through that date.

I manually reviewed roughly 45 individual transactional line items from Curtis's STOCK Act filings across 2020-2023. The most common pattern I found was mid-five-figure purchases in semiconductor and software names, with sale timings that clustered around year-end rebalancing rather than around specific legislative events.

Late Filings and STOCK Act Compliance Track Record

The STOCK Act requires members of Congress to disclose securities transactions exceeding $1,000 within 45 days. Curtis's filing record shows a mix of on-time and extension-bound submissions. According to LegiStorm, Curtis filed extension letters for most years of his congressional service including 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026 — suggesting he regularly requested additional time to compile his disclosure paperwork.

His stock transaction filing count peaked in 2023 with 10 separate filings, reflecting the elevated activity preceding his portfolio liquidation. In 2020, shortly after the COVID-19 market disruption, he filed 8 times. By contrast, 2025 shows only one filing (dated August 13, 2025) as a Senator — consistent with his shift away from individual equities.

I compared Curtis's filing frequency against the typical House member's disclosure pattern. His 10 filings in 2023 is higher than average but well below the most active filers (Gottheimer, for comparison, filed over 1,300 individual transactions in the same period). The extension letters are worth noting because they hint at filing delays even if the individual reports themselves did not always exceed the 45-day window. Pineify's Congress Trading module flags any filing past 45 days with a visible late-filing badge and displays the days-late count for every transaction.

Recent Trades by John Curtis

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Market Insights Coverage

$5.8M+

Total Disclosed Trade Volume

~$17.9M

Estimated Net Worth

2019–2025

Filing Years Reviewed

Bonds / Private Equity

Portfolio Type

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