Rep. Kevin Hern (R-Okla.) reported a sale of Solstice Advanced Materials Inc. (SOLS) common stock in a periodic transaction report filed under the STOCK Act. The transaction, dated August 5, 2026, was made through a jointly-held account shared with his spouse, valued between $1,001 and $15,000. The filing lists the holding as run through the Hern Family Foundation, a detail that distinguishes it from a typical individual brokerage account.
The disclosure falls under our congress sale classification, meaning it reflects a reduction in the family’s position in the company rather than a new or increased stake. STOCK Act filings like this one are required of all members of Congress and their spouses whenever a covered transaction crosses the reporting threshold, and the requirement to disclose is not itself an indication of any wrongdoing.
An Insider Sale in the Same Window
What makes this filing notable is its timing relative to activity inside Solstice Advanced Materials itself. Company insider Mawson Simon also sold SOLS shares on August 1, 2026, according to separate disclosures, placing that transaction within 30 days of Hern’s reported sale. The insider transaction was recorded at a $0 value, but the proximity of the two sales, one from a sitting member of Congress’s family foundation and one from a corporate insider, adds another data point to the pattern our tracking has flagged around SOLS in recent weeks.
Congressional trading in a stock shortly after or before insider activity in that same company does not establish any connection between the two, nor does it suggest either party acted on shared information. Lawmakers and their spouses hold diversified portfolios, and disclosure timing can be driven by administrative filing deadlines as much as by the underlying trade date. Still, when multiple sales cluster around the same ticker within a short window, it is the kind of pattern that warrants tracking.
This is not the first SOLS-related filing to cross our desk this month. Earlier coverage detailed Kelly Morrison’s Spouse Sells SOLS Shares Held in Trust, another disclosure involving the same ticker filed just days after Hern’s transaction. Taken together, the filings suggest SOLS has seen a notable amount of movement among both congressional households and company insiders over a short stretch of the summer.
whoisbuyingnow.com will continue monitoring subsequent filings tied to Solstice Advanced Materials and related STOCK Act disclosures as they become public.