LATEST
2 reports: 2 transactions
0 purchases and 2 sales dated 24 Jan 2023 to 24 Jan 2023, across 2 tickers. 1 ticker appear for the first time, including XOM.
What changed in the latest report
Each row is one posting date. Counts come from the rows Tracked Money read from that day's reports; "first time" means the ticker is in no earlier report.
2 reports: 19 transactions
0 purchases and 19 sales dated 24 Oct 2022 to 20 Dec 2022, across 18 tickers. This is the first report on record, so every ticker in it is new.
When the trades happened
| Month | Trades |
|---|---|
| Oct 2022 | 14 |
| Nov 2022 | 3 |
| Dec 2022 | 2 |
| Jan 2023 | 2 |
Buying or selling?
BUY 0
21 SELL
What stocks does Burns own and trade most?
The 10 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.
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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.
General Electric Co · weekly close0 buys · 2 sells · +698.0% since Oct 2022
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What if you had copied Burns's trades?
William J. Burns'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 Burns compares
| Official | Trades | Stocks | Buy share | Days to file |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| William J. Burns | 21 | 19 | 0% | 99 |
| Executive branch, median officialmedian of 22 filers | 53 | 20 | 38% | 63 |
| Congress, median membermedian of 127 filers | 126 | 37 | 50% | 27 |
| Most active in Congress, past 12 months: Gilbert Cisneros | 2,699 | 710 | 57% | 27 |
Every disclosed trade
All 21 rows, newest trade first. Amounts are the ranges the form discloses; each links to its source report.
| Traded | Filed | Asset | Type | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-01-24 | 2023-03-04 | GE General Electric Co. | Sale | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| 2023-01-24 | 2023-03-04 | XOM Exxon Mobil Corp. | Sale | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| 2022-12-20 | 2023-01-31 | IP International Paper Co. | Sale | $100,001 - $250,000 |
| 2022-12-20 | 2023-01-31 | SLVM Sylvamo Corporation | Sale | $15,001 - $50,000 |
| 2022-11-22 | 2023-01-31 | HON Honeywell International, Inc. | Sale | $15,001 - $50,000 |
| 2022-11-22 | 2023-01-31 | QCOM QUALCOMM, Inc. | Sale | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| 2022-11-22 | 2023-01-31 | VRTX Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | Sale | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| 2022-10-24 | 2023-01-31 | EWJ iShares MSCI Japan ETF | Sale | $15,001 - $50,000 |
| 2022-10-24 | 2023-01-31 | GE General Electric Co. | Sale | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| 2022-10-24 | 2023-01-31 | JNJ Johnson & Johnson | Sale | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| 2022-10-24 | 2023-01-31 | MCD McDonald's Corp. | Sale | $15,001 - $50,000 |
| 2022-10-24 | 2023-01-31 | META Meta Platforms Inc. Class A | Sale | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| 2022-10-24 | 2023-01-31 | MSFT Microsoft Corp. | Sale | $50,001 - $100,000 |
| 2022-10-24 | 2023-01-31 | NVS Novartis | Sale | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| 2022-10-24 | 2023-01-31 | PG Procter & Gamble Co. | Sale | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| 2022-10-24 | 2023-01-31 | T AT&T Inc. | Sale | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| 2022-10-24 | 2023-01-31 | UL Unilever | Sale | $15,001 - $50,000 |
| 2022-10-24 | 2023-01-31 | WFC Wells Fargo & Co See Endnote | Sale | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| 2022-10-24 | 2023-01-31 | WMT Walmart, Inc. | Sale | $15,001 - $50,000 |
| 2022-10-24 | 2023-01-31 | WPC W P Carey Inc. | Sale | $50,001 - $100,000 |
| 2022-10-24 | 2023-01-31 | Warner Brothers Discovery Inc. | Sale | $1,001 - $15,000 |
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Questions people ask
Does Burns 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 Burns disclosed?
Tracked Money has read 21 transactions from 4 OGE 278-T reports posted between 31 Jan 2023 and 4 Mar 2023, with trade dates from 24 Oct 2022 to 24 Jan 2023.
What stocks does Burns own?
The 278-T lists transactions, not holdings. The stocks traded most often in these reports are General Electric Co (GE), iShares MSCI Japan ETF (EWJ), Honeywell International Inc (HON), International Paper Co /New/ (IP), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ). Holdings appear on the annual OGE Form 278e financial disclosure, which this page does not cover.
How quickly do Burns's trades become public?
The median trade on this page became public 99 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.
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Last checked
28 Sep 2026Last time Tracked Money checked OGE for new 278-T reports.
Reports read
4 of 4Every report OGE has posted as a PDF for this official. 4 yielded transaction rows, posted 31 Jan 2023 to 4 Mar 2023.
Tickers matched
20 of 21Rows 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.