Virginia Foxx Keeps Buying the Same Coal Stock. Her Overall Record Is a Coin Flip.

Three ARLP trades in 90 days, an 8-for-15 win rate, and a mean alpha of negative 0.7%. The coal royalty stock has no committee overlap. The record is the record.

By Beltway Alpha · Edited by Sean Baptiste · Published 2026-07-15

Virginia Foxx is trending on Google News today, and the reason is a little murky: there are zero news stories in the last 24 hours driving it. No scandal, no floor drama, no leaked memo. Just a name bubbling up through the algorithm while Bluesky does what Bluesky does, which is remind anyone who'll listen that North Carolina's 5th District has had the same representative since 2005 and a significant portion of the internet is tired of it. Since the news cycle is not handing us a peg, we'll use what we have: three disclosed stock trades, fifteen scored positions, one coal royalty trust she keeps coming back to, and a voting record that covers everything from daylight saving time to surveillance law.

The Social Noise

The Bluesky sentiment clusters around two things: frustration that Foxx has held a seat for two decades without serious competition, and the kind of rhetoric you get when a politician has spent long enough in Washington that strangers online have formed strong opinions about her tenure. The timeline is findable. What it doesn't address is the financial record.

Three Trades. One Ticker. Ninety Days.

Per Foxx's disclosure record on Blind Trust, she filed three trades in the last 90 days. All three are the same stock: Alliance Resource Partners, ticker ARLP. A coal royalty and mining partnership based in Tulsa.

The sequence, per the filings:

May 15, 2026: Purchase, ARLP, $1,001–$15,000
May 15, 2026: Purchase, ARLP, $1,001–$15,000 (second transaction, same day)
June 18, 2026: Sale, ARLP, $1,001–$15,000

Buy twice on a Thursday in May. Sell once in June. The dollar amounts are small by congressional-portfolio standards — we're potentially talking about a $3,000 round trip at the floor. But the pattern repeats: she bought ARLP in February 2026 as well, and that earlier purchase was one of her best-performing trades in the scored sample, posting 8.5% alpha over the following 30 days. She has made ARLP a recurring feature of her portfolio.

Alliance Resource Partners is a coal producer and royalty owner. Its performance correlates with energy prices, federal coal leasing policy, and the broader political climate around fossil fuel regulation. Foxx sits on the House Committee on Education and Workforce, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and the House Committee on Rules. None of those committees carry direct jurisdiction over energy or mining policy. The trades carry no committee-overlap flag in the disclosure data.

The interpretation is yours.

The Broader Scorecard: 8-for-15, Minus 0.7%

Across 15 scored positions in the Blind Trust database, Foxx is 8-for-15 on positive 30-day alpha versus the S&P 500. A 53% hit rate. Her mean 30-day alpha across all 15 trades is negative 0.7%. The wins and losses roughly cancel, with the losses edging ahead.

The best trades in the sample:

ARLP purchase on February 13, 2026: +8.5% alpha over 30 days
HTGC purchase on November 19, 2025: +6.3% alpha
EFC purchase on September 30, 2025: +5.8% alpha

The worst:

HTGC sale on September 25, 2025: -12.7% alpha (she sold; the stock kept running)
HTGC sale on January 12, 2026: -9.8% alpha (same story, different quarter)
ARLP purchase on August 14, 2025: -7.6% alpha (bought in; the stock went the other way)

None of the scored trades carry a committee-overlap flag. A 53% win rate over 15 trades with a mean alpha slightly below zero is the return profile of someone roughly breaking even against the index.

The HTGC pattern is worth flagging specifically: she sold Hercules Capital twice, and both times the stock outperformed the S&P over the following 30 days. She left a combined 22.5 percentage points of alpha on the table across two exits from the same ticker. That return pattern does not suggest special information — it suggests the opposite.

The Votes: Financial Bills, No Energy Committee, No Overlap

Foxx's recent floor votes include a run of financial-sector-adjacent legislation. She voted Yea on the Protecting Privacy in Purchases Act (H.R. 1181, passed July 14), the TRIA Program Reauthorization Act of 2026 (H.R. 7128, passed June 29), the Financial Exploitation Prevention Act of 2025 (H.R. 2478, passed June 25), and the Small Business Lending Fraud Prevention Act (H.R. 7401, passed June 24).

She also voted Yea on the Sunshine Protection Act of 2025 (H.R. 139, permanent daylight saving time, passed July 14), the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act (H.R. 6644, passed June 23), and the KIDS Act (H.R. 7757, passed June 29). On surveillance, she voted Yea on a FISA Amendments Act extension (H.R. 9238), which failed the floor on June 11.

The vote-trade overlap table in the disclosure data is empty. No flagged pairings between her recent trades and her recent votes. The financial bills she voted on fall under Financial Services committee jurisdiction — not Education and Workforce or Oversight. Floor votes on bills outside a member's committee assignments carry less analytical weight than votes inside their direct legislative lane.

Members are required to disclose. They are not required to divest, recuse, or abstain.

Two Decades, One District, Three ARLP Trades

Foxx has represented North Carolina's 5th since 2005. She's served as chair of the House Education and the Workforce Committee and has been a fixture in Republican leadership structures across multiple Congresses.

The district she represents is in the western North Carolina mountains, a region with coal-adjacent economic ties through Appalachia's broader energy economy, though North Carolina is not a major coal-producing state. ARLP operates primarily in Kentucky, Illinois, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Oklahoma. The connection to her district, if there is one, is not obvious from the public record.

What the public record shows: she bought ARLP twice in May, sold in June, and has been in and out of the same ticker across multiple filing periods. Her overall trading record is a coin flip that's slightly below market. None of her scored trades carry a committee flag. Her recent votes are on financial and privacy legislation outside her committee jurisdiction.

You can see the full disclosure record on Blind Trust and decide what you make of it.

The receipts are public. Make of them what you make of them.

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Virginia Foxx Keeps Buying the Same Coal Stock. Her Overall Record Is a Coin Flip.

Three ARLP trades in 90 days, an 8-for-15 win rate, and a mean alpha of negative 0.7%. The coal royalty stock has no committee overlap. The record is the record.