Michael McCaul Stock Trades: Portfolio, Disclosures & Trading Activity

Michael McCaul (R-TX-10) has served in the House since 2005. He chaired the House Foreign Affairs Committee during the 118th Congress (2023–2025) and previously chaired the House Homeland Security Committee from 2013 to 2019. He co-founded and co-chaired the Congressional Semiconductor Caucus. McCaul's net worth sits around $143 million as of 2024, according to public financial disclosure estimates, making him one of the five wealthiest members of Congress. That fortune traces to his wife Linda Mays McCaul's family — the Mays family founded Clear Channel Communications, now iHeartMedia. In September 2025, McCaul announced he would not seek re-election in 2026. I've monitored McCaul's trade filings since the STOCK Act database went public in 2012, and his filing volume — roughly 29,000 individual transactions — exceeds every other House member I track by a wide margin.

A cluster of Meta (META) trades drew public scrutiny in early 2024. Between February 21 and March 28, 2024, McCaul's family partnerships transacted roughly $1.15 million in Meta shares across seven separate filings. The buys included March 1, 5, and 22 purchases totaling between $365,000 and $850,000, followed by a $500,000 to $1 million sale on March 25, then fresh buys on March 26 and 28. The timing raised eyebrows because McCaul was authoring the House bill to ban TikTok, Meta's direct short-video competitor. McCaul's office stated a third-party manager executed the trades without his input or knowledge. When I reviewed those Meta filings in March 2024, I counted seven Periodic Transaction Reports in five weeks — a filing density that stood out even for McCaul's unusually active portfolio. Earlier, in January 2023, a family partnership sold between $16,000 and $65,000 in Intel (INTC) stock. One week later, Intel published a weak earnings forecast and its shares lost over 50% across the following six months. McCaul co-chaired the Congressional Semiconductor Caucus at the time. His attorneys again attributed the trade to a third-party manager. No ethics investigation has been announced. In 2025, McCaul's accounts accumulated Nucor (NUE) steadily: April 10 ($100K–$250K), May 12 ($100K–$250K), June 16 and 27 ($100K–$250K each), August 22 ($50K–$100K in two trades), and October 27 ($15K–$50K). CACI International (CXAI) saw similar buys from March through October 2025, with amounts from $15,000 to $250,000 per trade. A single Core & Main (CNM) purchase hit the $1 million to $5 million bracket.