Is PayPal Holdings (PYPL) the Best Nancy Pelosi Stock to Invest In Now?
We are aware that Nancy Pelosi isn't the only member of the Congress with amazing stock picking ability. And wouldn't you know it, fresh-faced financial geniuses like Marjorie Taylor Green are popping up, conveniently dumping Treasuries to load up on tech stocks just before a tariff pause. Green sold around $75000 (give or take $25000) of US Treasury bills to fund purchases of more than a dozen stocks (mostly tech stocks) before Trump's temporary tariff pause announcement. We published the list of her stock picks in 20 Best Stocks to Buy According to Marjorie Taylor Greene.
In the past few decades, stock trading based on access to information not made readily public was considered a side-benefit to being a lawmaker in the United States. After huge public outcry against the trading activities of lawmakers, Congress passed the STOCK Act of 2012 that made it mandatory for lawmakers to disclose these trades publicly. Staffers at The New York Times had previously claimed that trading patterns showed that the longstanding concerns about the potential for conflicts of interest or the use of inside information by members of Congress were viable and should have been addressed on a priority basis. Some US lawmakers, including Nancy Pelosi, the former Speaker of the House of Representatives, have advocated for a blanket ban on members of Congress and their family members from dealing in individual stocks while in office. Pelosi, who had previously voiced her opposition to such proposals, nevertheless continues to dabble at the stock market.
During the 2020 pandemic, the stock trading activities of Pelosi went widely viral on social media as retail traders created the Pelosi Tracker, an account on social networking platform X that disclosed trades made by Paul Pelosi, the husband of the House Speaker who is an investor and owns and operates Financial Leasing Services, a real estate and venture capital firm. A spokesperson for the former House Speaker has said that Pelosi is not involved in the investment decisions made by her husband. This admission seems rather difficult to digest given the insider information that Pelosi is privy to due to her senior position in the House. Retail traders have since started mimicking the trading activity of the Pelosi Tracker to cash in on the popularity of the tracker. The reviews of such mimicking activity on platforms like Reddit seem mixed at best, but their popularity is uncontested.
For this article, we consulted Capitol Trades, a platform that tracks the stock trading activity of politicians in the United States. It is important to clarify that the stocks listed below were picked from the public record of investments Pelosi and her family have made in the past few months. These stocks are also popular among hedge funds. Why are we interested in the stocks that hedge funds pile into? The reason is simple: our research has shown that we can outperform the market by imitating the top stock picks of the best hedge funds. Our quarterly newsletter's strategy selects 14 small-cap and large-cap stocks every quarter and has returned 373.4% since May 2014, beating its benchmark by 218 percentage points ().
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Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 94
PayPal Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:PYPL) is a digital payments firm. A regulatory filing dated early 2023 reveals that Pelosi sold 5,000 shares worth somewhere between $250,000 and $500,000 in PayPal Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:PYPL) in late 2022. The shares were sold at an average price of $69.10 for a total loss of $424,313. Paypal stock has risen since the company revealed ambitious growth numbers for 2027 last month. Per the firm, investors should expect low teens plus non-GAAP EPS growth by 2027. The company expects 2025 non-GAAP EPS growth of 6%-10%, while the consensus stands at $5.04. Additionally, the payments tech company said it expects EPS growth of over 20% in the longer term.
Overall, PYPL ranks 10th on our list of best Nancy Pelosi stocks to invest in now. While we acknowledge the potential of these companies, our conviction lies in the belief that some AI stocks hold greater promise for delivering higher returns, and doing so within a shorter time frame. There is an AI stock that went up since the beginning of 2025, while popular AI stocks lost around 25%. If you are looking for an AI stock that is more promising than PYPL but that trades at less than 5 times its earnings, check out our report about this cheapest AI stock.
READ NEXT: 20 Best AI Stocks To Buy Now and 30 Best Stocks to Buy Now According to Billionaires.
Disclosure: None. This article is originally published at Insider Monkey.
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