Rep. David Taylor Sells Microsoft, Buys Alphabet in Same-Day AI Switch
As seen on the 24/7 Wall St. homepage on August 20, 2026.
- GOOGL Alphabet Inc. - Class A Common Stock (GOOGL)Buy$1K – $15K
- GOOGL David Taylor Trust > Sardinia Ready Mix 401(k) - Dave Alphabet Inc. - Class A CoBuy$1K – $15K
- IBP David Taylor Trust > Schwab Joint Brokerage #1 (Home Grown) Installed Building PBuy$1K – $15K
- MSFT David Taylor Trust > Schwab Joint Brokerage #1 (Home Grown) Microsoft CorporatioSell$15K – $50K
- PG David Taylor Trust > Sardinia Ready Mix 401(k) - Dave Procter & Gamble Company (Buy$1K – $15K
A sitting congressman is swapping AI exposure in real time: Rep. David J. Taylor trimmed Microsoft in the largest slot of the filing and added Alphabet across two accounts on the same day. He also bought Procter & Gamble and homebuilding supplier Installed Building Products, disclosed nine days after the trades.
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Rep. David J. Taylor rotated out of Microsoft and into Alphabet on the same day, August 11, 2026, selling Microsoft in the filing's largest single transaction, reported in the $15K to $50K range. The Alphabet Class A buys landed across two separate accounts.
One Alphabet purchase came through a personal brokerage account and the other through a 401(k) held inside the David Taylor Trust under a Sardinia Ready Mix account, showing he added Google exposure across different vehicle types while trimming Microsoft.
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Three days later, on August 14, Taylor added Installed Building Products, an insulation supplier to homebuilders, through a joint brokerage account. That is a different kind of bet from the AI-adjacent names moved earlier in the week.
A purchase of Procter and Gamble, also on August 11, rounded out the cluster. All five transactions were disclosed on August 20, the standard lag under House ethics rules, so the public sees the moves well after the fact.