As former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi gears up to retire from her nearly four-decade career in Congress, she does so with an estimated net worth of $278million and $130million in stock profits.
Pelosi, 85, announced on Thursday that she would step down from office when her term ends in January 2027 and that she would not be running for reelection.
The congresswoman is famous for being the first and only female Speaker of the House and for the incredible returns on her stock market trades.
When a 47-year-old Pelosi was first elected to Congress in 1987, she and her venture capitalist husband, Paul Pelosi, had a reported net worth of around $3 million and between $610,000 and $785,000 in stocks, according to the congresswoman’s 1987 financial disclosure form.
Today, that stock portfolio is worth $133.7 million, according to estimates from Quiver Quantitative.
That’s a net gain of around 17,000 percent – significantly higher than the S&P 500’s 5,282 percent gain or the Dow Jones‘s 2,339 percent gain over the same period.
Even with inflation taken into account, that performance represents an average annual return of 14.5 percent, as much as twice the average annual 7 percent to 9 percent return of the S&P 500, NASDAQ and Dow Jones over those years.
And just last year, Pelosi’s portfolio had a staggering estimated return of 54 percent, more than double the S&P 500’s 25 percent gain and outperforming every major hedge fund according to Bloomberg’s end-of-year tally.
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will retire with a net worth of $278 million when she steps down from office in January 2027
Pelosi and her husband, Paul, have had incredible returns on their stock trades. The couple has made $130 million in stock profit over Pelosi’s 37-year career in Congress
Pelosi is famous for being the first and only female Speaker of the House. In these pictures, she can be seen sitting behind former President Obama while she had the position and holding the Speaker’s gavel
The congresswoman’s 2024 financial disclosure form shows her holding millions in stocks from high performing tech companies such as Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon and Google.
Her largest individual holding was in Apple, with $25 million to $50 million in the company’s stock.
Pelosi and her husband are also involved in several lucrative business ventures, including a Napa Valley winery worth $5 million to $25 million, an Italian restaurant, commercial real estate and a political data consulting firm.
The couple owns an $8.7 million home in San Francisco and a Washington DC apartment purchased for $650,000 in 1999.
Pelosi is one of the wealthiest members of Congress, and in the last three years, her disclosed trades had a volume of about $59 million, according to data from Capitol Trades.
There is no law against members of Congress holding or trading stocks, but they are required to publicly disclose their and their family members’ transactions within 45 days.
As a result, many have sought to copy Pelosi’s public trades and get in on the staggering returns she regularly achieves. An account on X called Nancy Pelosi Stock Tracker does exactly that, and it has more than 1.2 million followers.
There are serious finance institutional efforts to track the veteran congresswoman’s trades as well. Tidal Financial Group, an exchange-traded fund (ETF) platform, overseas an ETF aptly titled NANC that invests in stocks bought or sold by Pelosi and other Democrats in Congress.
Pelosi was first elected to Congress in 1987. At the time, she and her husband had a reported net worth around $3 million and between $610,000 and $785,000 in stocks
Pelosi was 47 when she was first elected to Congress. Her stock portfolio has grown around 17,000 percent since then
Pelosi’s highly visible trades that regularly outperform Wall Street have created momentum behind proposed bills to ban stock trading among members of Congress, which argue that they have access to market-moving information before the public does.
The congresswoman has denied accusations of insider trading. In 2021, when asked about her well-timed trades, she said: ‘We are a free market economy, (lawmakers) should be able to participate in that.’
Dan Weiskopf, portfolio manager of the NANC ETF, told the New York Post: ‘I think what I’ll miss most is how she trades.
‘It’s so high conviction and aggressive. . . . The only reason why you make such trades is if you’ve got a process that gives you confidence, and as far as I know, they’re not buying off technicals. So, they must be doing it because of information around the companies themselves.’
One of Pelosi’s most successful recent trades was for Nvidia stock. In December, she exercised call options that she purchased from the company in late 2023 at an estimated price of $1.8 million.
That allowed her to purchase 50,000 of the chip company’s shares at $12 a piece, less than one-tenth its current market price of $188.
In total, the Pelosis spent $2.4 million on the stocks, which are now worth more than $7.2 million.
The Daily Mail has reached out to Pelosi’s office for further comment.
