Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Top 50 Stocks Held by Congressmen

The chart below (via OpenSecrets.org) shows the most common stocks among all members of Congress who served during all or part of 2010, ranked by the number of members invested in them, with breakdowns by party. (Note 2010 is the most recent year that data is compiled by OS)

RankOrganizationTotal
Investors
Democrat
Investors
Republican
Investors
1General Electric944648
2Procter & Gamble743341
3Cisco Systems723339
4Microsoft Corp702842
5Pfizer Inc612734
5Bank of America612338
7AT&T Inc572037
8Intel Corp542430
8Johnson & Johnson541835
8Verizon Communications542232
11Exxon Mobil531439
12Apple Inc512130
13Coca-Cola Co492227
13JPMorgan Chase & Co491930
15PepsiCo Inc472225
16IBM Corp461629
17Wells Fargo451925
18Berkshire Hathaway431825
19Walt Disney Co411922
20Home Depot401624
21Hewlett-Packard391524
22McDonald's Corp381721
23Merck & Co371423
23Citigroup Inc371522
25Abbott Laboratories351124
26Wal-Mart Stores311219
273M Co301614
27Oracle Corp301317
29Apache Corp291019
30Qualcomm Inc281216
31Google Inc271017
32Goldman Sachs26917
32Ford Motor Co26818
32Conocophillips26719
32Time Warner261412
36United Technologies25916
36Chevron Corp25817
36Bristol-Myers Squibb25718
39BP24222
39Amgen Inc24915
39Duke Energy241014
39Emerson24816
39Kraft Foods241014
39Teva Pharmaceutical Industries241212
45Schlumberger Ltd23716
45Comcast Corp231211
45EMC Corp231310
45Altria Group23617
49CVS/Caremark Corp22715
50Devon Energy21615

7 comments:

  1. This could also serve as a list of the "50 most protected companies."

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  2. Odd that most of the companies have more republican than democratic investors.

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  3. Except for a few notable exceptions, notice it's remarkably consistent on both sides of the aisle.

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  4. Available in every mutual fund.

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  5. OMG... THE S&P500 IS IN ON THE CONSPIRACY!!

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  6. i work for a high net work mgmt firm and this sums up what we trade daily. With a few exceptions: Oracle and EMC got of the list and we do not trade Ford.

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