Pelosi Made $130M in Congress Stock Trades

The San Francisco pol became famous as the first woman to wield the speaker’s gavel, and infamous for her exceptional stock market returns.

Before first taking Congressional office in 1987, the then-47-year-old freshman and her hubby, venture capitalist Paul Pelosi, reported between $610,000 and $785,000 in stocks in their portfolio, according to a copy of her “hand delivered” 1987 financial disclosure form.

They held a dozen stocks, including CitiBank, and in many companies no longer publicly traded.

Last year, their investment portfolio pulled in an estimated 54% return, more than double the S&P 500’s 25% gain — and beating every large hedge fund, according to numbers in Bloomberg’s end-of-year tally.

Pelosi’s 2024 financial disclosure form shows holdings in some two dozen individual stocks, including millions in each of NVIDIA, Palo Alto Network, Salesforce, Netflix – and between $25 and $50 million of Apple stocks – their largest holding.

The Pelosis are worth an estimated $280 million today – compared to around $3 million when the Golden State lawmaker joined Congress.

They also have stakes in various other ventures, including a Napa Valley winery worth between $5 and 25 million, a Bay area Italian restaurant, commercial real estate and a political data and consulting firm.

They have a home in the Pacific Heights area of San Francisco valued at $8.7 million and a crash pad in the Georgetown neighborhood of DC bought in 1999 for $650,000.

Pelosi is so notorious for trading that past versions of the bill were named after her — and ETFs have attempted to copy her trades.

One of Pelosi’s greatest hits, he said, has been exercising a call option in December bought in late 2023 at an estimated premium of $1.8 million, allowing the Pelosis to nab 50,000 shares of hot AI chip stock NVIDIA for $12 a pop — less than one-tenth its market price.

In total the couple paid an estimated $2.4 million for the investment, which on paper is now worth more than $7.2 million.