Tim Moore arrived in Congress in January 2025 as a freshman from North Carolina's 10th district, carrying a reputation built over two decades in the state legislature. On social media this week, his name is circulating mostly around one thing: his vocal support for Elon Musk's government-efficiency push, including public praise for DOGE's work exposing alleged waste at FEMA. That's the news cycle. The financial disclosures tell a separate, quieter story.
The Committee Assignment That Matters
Moore sits on the House Committee on Financial Services, including its subcommittees on Financial Institutions and on Digital Assets, Financial Technology, and Artificial Intelligence. That's not incidental. Financial Services has direct jurisdiction over banking regulation, fintech, and the oversight of financial institutions. What that committee does moves markets. What its members trade is worth watching.
On May 20, Moore voted Yea on three banking bills that cleared the House floor: H.R. 4544 (the American Access to Banking Act), H.R. 5317 (the Community Bank Deposit Access Act of 2025), and H.R. 3234 (the Keeping Deposits Local Act). All three passed. All three sit squarely in his committee's jurisdiction. All three carry a market-relevance score north of 80 in our system.
Members are required to disclose trades within 45 days of execution. They are not required to recuse, divest, abstain, or put the phone down. That's the rule. Yes, really.
Ten Trades, Ninety Days
Since mid-March, Moore's disclosure filings show 10 transactions. Walk through the tape:
- March 19: Purchase of LGI Homes ($LGIH), $50K-$100K range.
- March 20: Another purchase of LGI Homes, $15K-$50K range. He bought the homebuilder twice in two days.
- March 23: Purchase of Cracker Barrel ($CBRL), $15K-$50K range.
- March 24: Sale of Nvidia ($NVDA), $15K-$50K range.
- March 26: Sale of LGI Homes, $100K-$250K range. He bought it twice, then sold it six days later at a higher disclosure bracket.
- April 1: Sale of Cracker Barrel, $15K-$50K range. He bought it on March 23. He sold it nine days later.
- April 7: Sale of Harley-Davidson ($HOG), $50K-$100K range.
- May 7: Purchase of Rolls-Royce Holdings ($RYCEY), $1K-$15K range.
- May 7: Purchase of InterContinental Hotels Group ($IHG), $1K-$15K range.
- May 18: Purchase of AT&T ($T), $15K-$50K range.
The LGI Homes sequence deserves a second look. He bought $50K-$100K worth on March 19, added another $15K-$50K on March 20, then sold the whole position at the $100K-$250K bracket on March 26. The disclosures don't tell us what he paid or what he cleared. They tell us the bracket moved up. The math is yours to do.
The Nvidia Sale and the Committee Overlap
The March 24 Nvidia sale is the one that carries a conflict-of-interest angle under our methodology. Moore's Financial Services subcommittee on Digital Assets, Financial Technology, and Artificial Intelligence has direct jurisdiction over the technology sector. Nvidia is squarely in that lane.
The full committee-overlap record on Nvidia: Moore sold $15K-$50K worth on March 24, 2026, and the 30-day alpha on that trade clocks in at essentially flat, negative 0.0% versus the S&P 500. So he sold it and the market didn't make him look particularly sharp or particularly wrong over the next month.
He also traded Intel ($INTC) in August 2025, another committee-overlap name. He bought $15K-$50K on August 1, another $15K-$50K on August 8, another $15K-$50K on August 11, then sold $100K-$250K on August 13. The 30-day alpha on those August purchases ranged from +17.9% to +24.6%. The sale came two days after the final purchase. Again, the disclosures don't show intent. They show a calendar.
The Broader Alpha Picture
Across 86 scored trades in our full sample, Moore is positive on 58 of them and negative on 28. The mean 30-day alpha across the full sample is +5.0% versus the S&P 500. That's a 67% hit rate on 86 trades, with a positive mean. It's a real number. It's also a number that includes some ugly misses.
His worst three scored trades: a sale of Hyster-Yale Group ($HY) on October 24, 2025, that produced negative 23.7% alpha over the next 30 days (he sold, the stock ran); another HY sale on December 3, 2025, at negative 13.6%; and a sale of Harley-Davidson on November 28, 2025, at negative 14.9%. All three were sales on names that then outperformed. The best trades in the sample, by contrast, were purchases: Genprobe ($GNPX) on December 18, 2025, returned +49.4% alpha in 30 days; a Cracker Barrel purchase on December 31, 2025, returned +32.1%.
The Cracker Barrel entry is worth flagging separately. He bought $CBRL on December 31, 2025, and that trade returned +32.1% alpha in 30 days. He then bought Cracker Barrel again on March 23, 2026 ($15K-$50K) and sold it nine days later on April 1. He's been in and out of this stock more than once. No committee overlap. Just a pattern.
To be direct about the record: 58 of 86 scored trades beat the market over 30 days, with a mean excess return of +5.0%. That's the full sample, wins and losses both. It is what it is.
The Musk Angle and FEMA
The social media conversation around Moore this week runs in two directions. One track has him quoted praising Musk: "Elon Musk is one of the smartest, most successful men in the world right now. When a person of that caliber is willing to, for no cost whatsoever, find ways to save money, we ought to welcome that." The other track, angrier, accuses Moore of collaborating on DOGE-style oversight that critics say targets FEMA's disaster-relief operations in North Carolina, a state still recovering from Hurricane Helene.
Neither of those conversations has anything to do with his stock trades. The trades don't overlap with FEMA, disaster relief, or Musk-adjacent sectors in any direct way. The two stories running simultaneously are just that: two separate stories about the same member.
What connects them is the committee perch. Moore on Financial Services has oversight jurisdiction over financial institutions and fintech. His active trading in that same period, including in names that fall inside his subcommittee's technology jurisdiction, is what this publication tracks. The DOGE/FEMA angle is the news cycle. The trading record is the data layer underneath it.
The May Purchases
The most recent trades, May 7 and May 18, are the quietest on paper. Rolls-Royce Holdings and InterContinental Hotels both landed in the $1K-$15K bracket on May 7, which is the smallest disclosure range available. The AT&T purchase on May 18 came in at $15K-$50K, two days before the banking-bill floor votes on May 20.
AT&T is a telecom company. The bills voted on May 20 were banking bills. There's no sector overlap to flag. The timing is close, but the subject matter doesn't connect. No vote-trade overlap in our system on this one.
The banking votes themselves, all of which Moore supported and all of which passed, fall within his committee's direct jurisdiction. Whether he holds any financial-institution stocks adjacent to those bills isn't visible in the 90-day window we're examining. The full disclosure record is public.
What the Public Record Shows
Ten trades in 90 days. A committee seat with direct jurisdiction over financial services and technology. Two Intel trades with positive double-digit alpha inside that committee's purview. An LGI Homes flip where the exit bracket was higher than the entry bracket. A 67% positive-alpha rate on 86 scored trades at a mean of +5.0%.
What the public record doesn't show: intent, profit figures, communications, or anything beyond the disclosed brackets and dates. Disclosure ranges are wide. A $15K-$50K trade could be $15,001 or $49,999. The filings are blunt instruments.
The receipts are public. Make of them what you make of them.