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Rep. Rick Larsen discloses trade(s) in DRI, ESS, META, MDLZ, VRSK

Rick Larsen (WA02) disclosed 6 transactions, traded Jan 7: 3 purchases and 3 sales.

TradedTickerCompanyActionAmountOwner
Jan 7DRIDarden Restaurants, Inc.Buy$1,001 - $15,000Self
Jan 7ESSPart of monthly portfolio rebalancing that account manager conducts Essex Property Trust, Inc.Sell$1,001 - $15,000Self
Jan 7METAPart of monthly portfolio rebalancing that account manager conducts Meta Platforms, Inc.Buy$1,001 - $15,000Self
Jan 7MDLZPart of monthly portfolio rebalancing that account manager conducts Mondelez International, Inc.Sell$1,001 - $15,000Self
Jan 7VRSKPart of monthly portfolio rebalancing that account manager conducts Verisk Analytics, Inc.Sell$1,001 - $15,000Self
Jan 7WMWaste Management, Inc.Buy$1,001 - $15,000Self

ORIGINAL FILING ↗ALL FILINGS BY RICK LARSEN →CONGRESS TRADES DASHBOARD →

Amounts are the ranges members report. Rows are read automatically from the filing; a trade split across a page break can be missed, so the original filing is the full record.

What This Means

A U.S. House member has filed a financial disclosure covering stock transactions in five companies spanning food manufacturing, energy storage, social media, consumer goods, and financial software. Congressional stock trading disclosures are public record and tracked by markets observers as a potential signal of insider positioning, though disclosure timing lags actual trades and does not indicate the direction or rationale of the transactions.

Sources — 1 tier

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How This Could Play Out — recorded when first flagged, not updated

Resolve

UNLIKELY

A routine disclosure filing becoming newsworthy would require subsequent reporting that connects these trades to a specific legislative action or committee position—absent that, the filing remains a compliance artifact with no material market signal.

Left Unattended

LIKELY

These trades remain routine portfolio rebalancing activity within a managed IRA account, consistent with the disclosed rationale, and generate no follow-up scrutiny or legislative narrative that would move sentiment in the underlying securities.

Escalate

POSSIBLE

If subsequent reporting or analysis identifies a pattern of trades across multiple members in the same securities around the same date, or if the timing coincides with non-public legislative developments, it could trigger renewed scrutiny of congressional trading practices and pressure toward stricter disclosure or trading restrictions.

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Confidence History

  • HIGH CONFIDENCESep 29, 2026 at 6:03 PM

    Legally mandated financial disclosure filing -- primary source, not a report about the event