Executive branch · OGE Form 278-T

Scott Bessent's stock trades: 28 disclosed since 2025

Every securities transaction Scott Bessent (Secretary, Department of The Treasury) reported on OGE Form 278-T, read from the reports the Office of Government Ethics posts: which companies, which way, and how long each trade took to become public.

Updated Source: OGE 278-T2 reports read

Short answer

As of 28 Sep 2026, Scott Bessent has disclosed 28 securities transactions on OGE Form 278-T, dated Jan 2025 to Nov 2025: 0 purchases and 28 sales across 4 ticker symbols. The most recent report with readable rows, posted 31 Dec 2025, listed 2 transactions. The most-traded stock is SPDR Gold Trust (GLD), with 2 trades.

28
Transactions disclosed

Scott Bessent reported 28 transactions on 2 OGE 278-T reports posted between 14 Aug 2025 and 31 Dec 2025.

4
Ticker symbols

The trades span 4 ticker symbols; 23 rows (bonds and assets without a matched ticker) are listed by name only.

0%
Purchases

0 of the transactions are purchases and 28 are sales.

142 days
Median delay to public

Half of Bessent's trades became public within 142 days of the trade date, counting to the day OGE posted the report.

What changed in the latest report

Each row is one posting date. Counts come from the rows Tracked Money read from that day's report; "first time" means the ticker is in no earlier report.

LATEST

Report: 2 transactions

0 purchases and 2 sales dated 23 Sep 2025 to 27 Nov 2025; none matched to a ticker. No ticker appears for the first time.

Report: 26 transactions

0 purchases and 26 sales dated 28 Jan 2025 to 30 Jun 2025, across 4 tickers. This is the first report on record, so every ticker in it is new.

When the trades happened

Trades per month by transaction date, Jan 2025 to Nov 2025. The busiest month was Mar 2025 with 16 trades; 4 months in the range had none.
Trades per month
MonthTrades
Jan 20251
Feb 20256
Mar 202516
Apr 20251
May 20250
Jun 20252
Jul 20250
Aug 20250
Sep 20251
Oct 20250
Nov 20251

Buying or selling?

0% purchases, 100% sales across all 28 buy and sell transactions.

What stocks does Bessent own and trade most?

The 4 tickers traded most often in the reports. A 278-T lists transactions, not holdings, and gives sizes as ranges, so a count shows activity rather than position size. Select one to chart it below.

BuysSells
SPDR Gold Trust (GLD) leads with 2 trades: 0 buys and 2 sells. 23 rows without a matched ticker are not counted here.

Trades against the share price

Weekly closing price for each of the most-traded stocks, with every buy (green) and sell (orange) placed at its trade date.

SPDR Gold Trust · weekly close0 buys · 2 sells · +56.0% since Jan 2025
224294364433503Jul 2025Jan 2026Jul 2026Sell 4 Mar 2025Sell 4 Mar 2025
BuySell
Weekly closes from 3 Jan 2025; each dot sits on the close of its trade date (or the session before, for a weekend or holiday). Prices: Yahoo Finance.

What if you had copied Bessent's trades?

Scott Bessent's disclosed trades are all sales, so there is no position to follow and no return to publish. See the Executive Branch strategy (+68.0% past year) instead.

How Bessent compares

Trades and stocks are all disclosures Tracked Money has recorded. Buy share is purchases out of purchases plus sales. Days to file is the median gap from trade date to filing date; for 278-T reports that is the day OGE posted the report. The executive median covers the 22 executive officials shown in the Tracked Money app; the Congress median covers 127 House and Senate members shown in the app. Gilbert Cisneros (House) reported 1,153 trades dated 28 Sep 2025 to 28 Sep 2026, the most of any member in that window.
OfficialTradesStocksBuy shareDays to file
Scott Bessent2840%142
Executive branch, median officialmedian of 22 filers532038%63
Congress, median membermedian of 127 filers1263750%27
Most active in Congress, past 12 months: Gilbert Cisneros2,69971057%27

Every disclosed trade

All 28 rows, newest trade first. Amounts are the ranges the form discloses; each links to its source report.

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Scott Bessent's OGE Form 278-T transactions. Traded: transaction date as reported. Filed: date OGE posted the report.
TradedFiledAssetTypeAmount
2025-11-272025-12-31GreenGage Global HoldingsSale$100,001 - $250,000
2025-09-232025-12-31Totem Management SeedSale$250,001 - $500,000
2025-06-302025-08-14LLCSale$1,001 - $15,000
2025-06-302025-08-14Totem Macro Global Alpha Select Onshore Fund, LLCSale$1,001 - $15,000
2025-04-242025-08-14Old Farm Partners MasterSale$50,001 - $100,000
2025-03-272025-08-14Castle Hook LPSale$15,001 - $50,000
2025-03-272025-08-14Castle Hook LPSale$15,001 - $50,000
2025-03-272025-08-14Castle Hook LPSale$15,001 - $50,000
2025-03-272025-08-14LLCSale$1,001 - $15,000
2025-03-272025-08-14Totem Macro Global Alpha Select Onshore Fund, LLCSale$1,001 - $15,000
2025-03-252025-08-14Key Square Partners II LLPSale$1,001 - $15,000
2025-03-252025-08-14Key Square Partners II LLPSale$1,001 - $15,000
2025-03-252025-08-14Roxo Energy Funding IV LLCSale$100,001 - $250,000
2025-03-252025-08-14Roxo Energy Funding IV LLCSale$500,001 - $1,000,000
2025-03-252025-08-14Roxo Energy Funding IV LLCSale$250,001 - $500,000
2025-03-112025-08-14Skye Global FundSale$15,001 - $50,000
2025-03-042025-08-14EWG iShares MSCI Germany ETFSale$1,001 - $15,000
2025-03-042025-08-14GLD SPDR Gold SharesSale$50,001 - $100,000
2025-03-042025-08-14GLD SPDR Gold SharesSale$50,001 - $100,000
2025-03-042025-08-14THD iShares MSCI Thailand ETFSale$1,001 - $15,000
2025-03-042025-08-14VZ Verizon Communications, Inc.Sale$15,001 - $50,000
2025-02-212025-08-14Key Square Master Fund SPSale$1,001 - $15,000
2025-02-202025-08-14Key Square Group LPSale$250,001 - $500,000
2025-02-192025-08-14Key Square Group LPSale$50,001 - $100,000
2025-02-192025-08-14Key Square Partners II LPSale$100,001 - $250,000
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Questions people ask

Does Bessent have to disclose stock trades?

Yes. Senior executive-branch officials, including the President, must report securities transactions over $1,000 on OGE Form 278-T, generally within 45 days of the trade. The Office of Government Ethics publishes the reports.

How many stock trades has Bessent disclosed?

Tracked Money has read 28 transactions from 2 OGE 278-T reports posted between 14 Aug 2025 and 31 Dec 2025, with trade dates from 28 Jan 2025 to 27 Nov 2025.

What stocks does Bessent own?

The 278-T lists transactions, not holdings. The stocks traded most often in these reports are SPDR Gold Trust (GLD), iShares MSCI Germany ETF (EWG), iShares MSCI Thailand ETF (THD), Verizon Communications Inc (VZ). Holdings appear on the annual OGE Form 278e financial disclosure, which this page does not cover.

How quickly do Bessent's trades become public?

The median trade on this page became public 142 days after it happened, measured from the trade date to the day OGE posted the report. Amounts are disclosed as ranges, not exact figures.

Method and sources

Every row on this page is read from an OGE Form 278-T periodic transaction report published by the U.S. Office of Government Ethics. The reports are scanned or e-filed PDFs; Tracked Money reads each row's asset, type, trade date and amount range, and matches company names to ticker symbols. Rows it cannot match (bonds, funds, unmatched names) are kept with the name as filed. The filing date is the day OGE posted the report, the first day anyone could read it.

Last checked

28 Sep 2026

Last time Tracked Money checked OGE for new 278-T reports.

Reports read

2 of 2

Every report OGE has posted as a PDF for this official. 2 yielded transaction rows, posted 14 Aug 2025 to 31 Dec 2025.

Tickers matched

5 of 28

Rows matched to a ticker symbol. The rest are listed by name and left out of the charts.

Reports OGE releases only on written request (Form 201) are not included. Amounts are statutory ranges, not exact figures. The page is generated from the filing data; the wording is templated, not written per report.

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Public filings. Not investment advice. Trades are disclosed up to 45 days after they happen, in dollar ranges. Updated 31 Dec 2025.