Skip to navigationSkip to main contentSkip to right columnADVERTISEMENTOmor Ibne EhsanWed, July 1, 2026 at 5:50 PM GMT+2 4 min readQuick ReadSenator Ashley Moody managed to beat Nancy Pelosi's portfolio in the past yearHer stock picks are a little stale in 2026 but it's worth looking intoThere's a pick that returned well over 300% in one year on its ownDon't wait: the analyst who called NVIDIA in 2010 just revealed his top 10 AI stocks. See the full list FREE now.If you sort all the top politicians with a portfolio of above $1 million using their annual gains, who do you expect at the top? Likely Nancy Pelosi, but that's not the case. A Republican Senator named Ashley Moody has gained 310% in the past year using her portfolio.Alex Wong / Getty ImagesHer portfolio and her (lack of) trades make everything stand out from everyone else's.Is this a new Nancy Pelosi on the other side of the aisle, or are her gains an artifact of a few lucky trades? Let's take a look.How Ashley Moody outperformedMoody's last batch of trades was in April of last year as the market was recovering from the tariff crisis. She reported buying Ares Capital (NASDAQ:ARCC), Howmet Aerospace (NYSE:HWM), Energy Transfer (NYSE:ET), JPMorgan Chase (NYSE:JPM), and Super Micro Computer (NASDAQ:SMCI).Out of all these stocks, HWM is up the most, and it is only up 54% in the past year. Some have even collapsed, with SMCI stock down 41% in the past year.A month earlier in March, she bought both Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) and Eli Lilly (NYSE:LLY). NVDA stock is up 28% in the past year, with LLY up 53%. The biggest gains came from AMD, which Moody bought in late February. AMD stock is up 306% in the past year.Don't wait: the analyst who called NVIDIA in 2010 just revealed his top 10 AI stocks. See the full list FREE now.Is Moody the next Pelosi?Moody's trades and gains are quite different from those of Nancy Pelosi. Nancy Pelosi herself does not make the trades attributed to her, and it's instead her husband who makes these moves. Ashley Moody's trades are "never approved or initiated" by her and are attributed to her because she was part of an extended family investment partnership managed by an adviser.Moreover, Moody has been far less successful compared to the Pelosis. One year of outperformance is not enough compared to the sustained outperformance of the Pelosis' portfolio over decades. These trades are even more hit-or-miss, since she owns several stocks (like SMCI) that are down 40-70% in the past year.She's no longer tradingAshley Moody's portfolio became awkwardly high-performing right as she presented herself as a reformer on congressional stock trading. She ended up exiting the family investment arrangement last year and wants a trading ban so members cannot even appear to profit from office.Terms and Privacy PolicyEU DSA contactPrivacy & Cookie SettingsMore Info