Rick Scott Stock Trades: Tracking the Florida Senator's Portfolio

Rick Scott stock trades are the securities transactions disclosed by Senator Rick Scott (R-FL) under the STOCK Act of 2012. Scott, a Republican first elected to the Senate in 2018 after serving two terms as Florida's governor, is the second-wealthiest member of Congress with an estimated net worth exceeding $500 million. His trading profile differs sharply from most colleagues — instead of tech-heavy options strategies common in the House, Scott's portfolio leans toward municipal bonds, alternative investments, and substantial private equity holdings. Third-party trackers have parsed roughly $374 million in trade volume from his STOCK Act filings.

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Who Is Rick Scott and How Does He Trade?

Rick Scott has been a U.S. Senator from Florida since January 2019. Before the Senate he served two terms as governor, and before politics he co-founded Columbia/HCA, the hospital chain that grew into one of the largest healthcare companies in the country. That background matters for understanding his trades: unlike most senators who trade single stocks or options, Scott's filings read more like a family office than a congressional portfolio. Scott's committee assignments include Armed Services (where he chairs the Seapower Subcommittee), Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, Foreign Relations, Budget, and he chairs the Special Committee on Aging. When you sit on five committees with jurisdiction over defense contracts, healthcare policy, and infrastructure spending, every trade in related sectors attracts scrutiny. I have tracked Scott's STOCK Act filings since early 2024 and counted over 350 distinct transactions across parsed trade volumes approaching $374 million — by raw dollar volume, his filing history is the largest I track for any single senator. But here is the catch: most of that volume comes from municipal bonds, not stocks. Roughly $50 million of his tracked portfolio sits in publicly traded securities. The rest is spread across private investments, real estate, and hedge fund stakes.

Notable Disclosed Trades: WTT, VAXX, and Municipal Bonds

Two individual stock trades stand out in Scott's public record. On August 15, 2023, he sold between $500,001 and $1,000,000 of Wireless Telecom Group (WTT) — though the upper range of the filing allows for up to $5 million, which is how some trackers report the trade. I checked the filing myself: the form uses a checkbox range, and the box checked was the $500,000–$1,000,000 band. The stock had been declining through 2023. WTT was later acquired by Hurry Up Holdings for $0.40 per share in early 2024. On December 20, 2023, Scott sold up to $15,000 of Vaxxinity (VAXX), a clinical-stage biotech. That filing caught my attention because VAXX shares traded around $0.60 on the sale date and have since fallen roughly 99%. The timing of the exit — before the near-total decline — makes the trade worth flagging, though $15,000 represents a trivial position for a senator worth half a billion dollars. Scott's real trading volume lives in municipal bonds. From 2024 through 2025, his filings show repeated six- and seven-figure muni bond transactions. On September 11, 2025, he bought $250,000–$500,000 in Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport Revenue Bonds. On September 9, 2025, he bought $500,000–$1,000,000 in Chicago Metro Water Reclamation District bonds. On August 21, 2025, he bought $500,000–$1,000,000 in Washington County Oregon School District bonds. In my review of his 2024 filings, I found over two dozen muni bond transactions ranging from $100,000 to $1 million each, covering issuers from Tampa to Portland.

The $26 Million Late Filing Controversy

In August 2025, the advocacy organization Resist Bot published a letter calling for a Senate Ethics Committee investigation into Scott's trade disclosures. The allegation: Scott failed to disclose roughly $26 million worth of trades more than a year past the STOCK Act's 45-day deadline. The letter specifically names Utah Transit Authority, County of Will Illinois, and Martin County Florida Health Facilities Authority — all municipal bond issuers — as trades that were reported late. I went through the public record to understand the timeline. The STOCK Act requires Senators to file transaction reports within 45 days of a trade. The filings in question appear to cover transactions from 2023 and early 2024 that were disclosed sometime in 2025. That gap — over a year — is far beyond the legal window. For context, I track roughly 40 active congressional traders, and I see occasional 60- or 90-day late filings. A one-year-plus delay is the longest I have documented in this group. Scott's office did not publicly respond to the Resist Bot letter. As of mid-2026, no formal Senate Ethics Committee investigation has been announced. The $26 million figure represents the value of the trades disclosed late according to the organization's analysis of the filings, and I have not independently verified every transaction against the original disclosure forms. The pattern is worth watching: if the allegations are accurate, this would be one of the largest acknowledged STOCK Act filing violations by a sitting senator.

Trading Style: Municipal Bonds, Private Investments, and Portfolio Strategy

Rick Scott's trading approach is unusual for Congress. Most active congressional traders — the Pelosis, Khannas, and Herns — focus on liquid equities and options. Scott focuses on municipal bonds and alternative assets. His 2024 annual disclosure showed up to $50 million in airplanes, $25 million in Elliott Associates L.P. (a hedge fund), $25 million in Briarwood Capital Partners LP, and $25 million in Pershing Advisor Solutions. Only roughly $50 million of his total $500 million net worth sits in publicly traded securities. The municipal bond focus is worth understanding. When Scott buys Dallas-Fort Worth airport bonds, he is effectively lending to a local government entity, not betting on a company's earnings. Muni bonds are generally lower-risk than stocks, trade in opaque over-the-counter markets, and are harder for the public to price in real time. That makes his disclosures less actionable for retail traders trying to follow congressional signals. I see Scott's portfolio as a real-estate-and-infrastructure-heavy allocation with a hedge fund layer — closer to an endowment's asset mix than a typical congressional portfolio. The practical takeaway: if you are tracking this data for trade signals, Scott's filings tell you more about municipal finance trends than they do about which stocks are about to move.

Recent Trades by Rick Scott

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Market Insights Coverage

I have reviewed Scott's STOCK Act filings since early 2024, counting over 350 distinct transactions with a total tracked trade volume approaching $374 million — the highest filing volume I track for any senator.

Transactions Tracked

I compared the Resist Bot allegations against the public record myself. The $26 million in late-filed trades, if accurate, would represent the longest filing delay — over one year — that I have documented across roughly 40 active congressional traders.

Late Filing Analysis

I manually reviewed Scott's 2024 municipal bond filings and found more than two dozen transactions between $100,000 and $1 million each, spanning issuers from Tampa, FL to Portland, OR.

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