GOP vs TACU

GOPCSubversive Congressional Republicans Trading ETF

TACUAT. Rowe Price Active Core U.S. Equity ETF

In short

GOP Congress trades stocks; this fund copies the Republican half of the ledger, buying and selling what sitting Republican members and their families disclose under the STOCK Act, tilted toward the names they buy big, often, and in groups.

TACU T. Rowe Price's quant-plus-fundamental take on core large-cap U.S. stock, benchmarked to the Russell 1000. Gross fee 0.14%, fully waived to zero through January 30, 2027.

Stated mandate

GOP The Fund seeks long-term capital appreciation.

TACU The fund seeks long-term capital growth through a primarily U.S. equity portfolio. It combines quantitative models with fundamental, bottom-up analysis and seeks excess returns relative to the Russell 1000 Index.

Why people hold it

• GOP A clean split of the data: the Republican side of the congressional-disclosure trade, with a sibling fund running the Democratic side.sec.govsec.gov 2
• Weighting follows conviction. Large, repeat and multi-member purchases get overweighted; small or one-off trades are underweighted or skipped.sec.gov
• The portfolio stays tight to the mandate it advertises, and the fund sits in the upper half of its active US equity peer group.
• At 0.73% with no fee waiver in place, the price tag lands near the median for active US equity funds.

• TACU Fee fully waived: 0.14% gross, zero net through January 30, 2027. That sits below every top-scoring peer in the category, including DFAU at 0.12% with no waiver.troweprice.com
• Quant models feed bottom-up stock picking with tilts to profitability, quality and value, chasing excess return over the Russell 1000 while holding tracking error tight.troweprice.com
• Several hundred large-cap names, so no single position runs the show. One of the stronger profiles in a crowded active U.S. equity field.troweprice.com

Worth knowing

• GOP The lag is structural: members have up to 45 days to file a transaction report, so the fund trades after the disclosure, not alongside it.sec.gov
• Near the category median still means several times the cost of broad active core peers like DFAU (0.12%) and AVLC (0.15%).
• Smaller and thinly traded, so spreads can run wider than the category's giants. Distributions come once or twice a year; pre-2025 history sits under the old ticker, KRUZ.sec.gov

• TACU Launched in December 2025, so the live record is short and the risk read rests on limited history.
• Still a small fund that trades lightly, which can mean wider spreads than the category's giants.
• Distributions are annual at most, with no declared income target. This is a growth mandate, not a cash-flow one.

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