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John J. McGuire III Republican · VA-5

House of Representatives · in office · serving since 2025 · born August 24, 1968

Transactions 16 across 7 filings
Securities traded 11 7 active in 6 months
Disclosed range total $16,016 sum of filed minimums
Huddle pairings 0 none recorded

In plain language

Of 16 disclosed trades, 0 were flagged by the site's published rules.

Too few disclosed trades here to say anything about a pattern. A handful of trades will throw up the odd coincidence for anyone.

Across the whole database, congressional trading beats the market by close to nothing on average, and only slightly more trades look unusual than chance alone would produce. Most members, most of the time, are unremarkable. That is the backdrop for anything you read here. A flag is a prompt to look at the record, never a finding about a person.

Seat & district history

SeatCongressesServedChange
VA-5 119th 2025–2027 first seat

District numbers change when a state is redistricted, so a renumbering here is not necessarily a move — the boundaries were redrawn around the member. Term records come from the public congress-legislators dataset.

Committees

Current (119th Congress)

CommitteePositionRankSideJurisdiction
House Committee on Armed Services Member 25 majority
House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Member 24 majority

The published roster covers only the sitting Congress, so earlier assignments are reconstructed from the dated version history of that same public dataset, sampled monthly back to 2012. Observed is the span across which we actually saw the seat held — it is evidence of tenure, not a precise start and end date, and a seat that changed hands between two monthly samples may be dated up to a month out. Committees with no history recorded are absent because no snapshot showed them, which is not evidence the member held no seat.

Currently trading — last 6 months

7 securities
TickerSecuritySectorTrades (period) Buys / SellsPeriod valueLast trade
BLK Blackrock Inc Capital Markets 1 0 / 1 $8,001 2026-07-07
SPCX 2000164887 SpaceX (SPCX) Software & IT Services 1 1 / 0 $8,001 2026-06-15
META Meta Platforms Inc Software & IT Services 1 2 / 0 $8,001 2026-06-04
DELL Dell Technologies Inc Technology Hardware 1 0 / 1 $8,001 2026-06-04
MSFT Microsoft Corporation - Common Stock (M… Software & IT Services 2 2 / 1 $16,001 2026-04-15
NVDA NVIDIA Corporation - Common Stock (NVDA) Semiconductors 2 2 / 0 $16,001 2026-04-15
AAPL Apple Inc. - Common Stock (AAPL) Technology Hardware 1 1 / 0 $8,001 2026-04-15

Values are the sum of filed range midpoints, not exact amounts — Congress discloses brackets. Because a transaction may be reported up to 45 days after it happens, this window reflects what has been disclosed, not necessarily everything already traded.

Previously traded

4 securities

Securities with disclosed transactions before this window and none since. A security leaving this list means no reported trading — not that a position was closed. Holdings themselves are not disclosed in these filings.

TickerSecuritySectorTrades Buys / SellsTotal valueActive
WMT Walmart Inc. Common Stock (WMT) Retail & Consumer 1 0 / 1 $8,001 2026-01 → 2026-01
NOW ServiceNow, Inc. Common Stock (NOW) Software & IT Services 2 1 / 1 $16,001 2025-05 → 2025-06
NFLX Netflix, Inc. - Common Stock (NFLX) Media & Entertainment 1 1 / 0 $8,001 2025-06 → 2025-06
UNH UnitedHealth Group Incorporated Common … Insurance 1 1 / 0 $8,001 2025-04 → 2025-04

The Spread by year

YearSpreadTrades pricedDisclosed value
2026 +4.9% 4 $32,002
2025 -23.2% 5 $40,003

Transaction timing versus the market over 90 trading days — not portfolio return, which these filings cannot support. See Methodology and the Scoreboard for the population baseline.

All transactions

DateTickerAssetActionAmount (as filed)OwnerFiling
2026-07-07 BLK BlackRock, Inc. Common Stock (BLK) sell $1,001 – $15,000 spouse
2026-06-15 SPCX Space Exploration Technologies Corp. - Class A Common Stock (SPCX) buy $1,001 – $15,000 spouse
2026-06-04 META Meta Platforms, Inc. - Class A Common Stock (META) buy $1,001 – $15,000 spouse
2026-06-04 DELL Dell Technologies Inc. Class C Common Stock (DELL) sell $1,001 – $15,000 spouse
2026-04-15 NVDA NVIDIA Corporation - Common Stock (NVDA) buy $1,001 – $15,000 spouse
2026-04-15 MSFT Microsoft Corporation - Common Stock (MSFT) buy $1,001 – $15,000 spouse
2026-04-15 AAPL Apple Inc. - Common Stock (AAPL) buy $1,001 – $15,000 spouse
2026-01-30 NVDA NVIDIA Corporation - Common Stock (NVDA) buy $1,001 – $15,000 spouse
2026-01-30 MSFT Microsoft Corporation - Common Stock (MSFT) sell $1,001 – $15,000 spouse
2026-01-21 MSFT Microsoft Corporation - Common Stock (MSFT) buy $1,001 – $15,000 spouse
2026-01-20 WMT Walmart Inc. - Common Stock (WMT) sell $1,001 – $15,000 spouse
2025-06-30 META Meta Platforms, Inc. - Class A Common Stock (META) buy $1,001 – $15,000 spouse
2025-06-27 NOW ServiceNow, Inc. Common Stock (NOW) sell $1,001 – $15,000 spouse
2025-06-16 NFLX Netflix, Inc. - Common Stock (NFLX) buy $1,001 – $15,000 spouse
2025-05-16 NOW ServiceNow, Inc. Common Stock (NOW) buy $1,001 – $15,000 spouse
2025-04-10 UNH UnitedHealth Group Incorporated Common Stock (UNH) buy $1,001 – $15,000 spouse