A new report from MapLight, a nonpartisan and nonprofit research organization that provides a free public database, revealed Congress' top 15 favorite stocks. The report, which is part of the launch of MapLight's "personal financial disclosures database," is a new tool that links the legislator's investments and other financial information that is disclosed annually and part of the public domain.
According to the information from members of the 2013's 113th Congress, the following are the top 15 most popular stock holdings and a fixed range of values with which to record the amount of an asset held (there are no exact amounts). Keep in mind that Congress has 535 voting members.
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Rank: 15
Company: Pfizer
Number of members holding: 41
Value range: $1,644,586 – $3,929,540
(AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
Rank: 14
Company: Coca-Cola Company
Number of members holding: 41
Value range: $2,347,054 – $5,431,000
(AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
Rank: 13
Company: Cisco Systems
Number of members holding: 44
Value range: $315,363 – $1,141,320
(AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)
Rank: 12
Company: Chevron
Number of members holding: 44
Value range: $3,709,286 – $8,074,235
(AP Photo/Noah Berger)
Rank: 11
Company: Johnson & Johnson
Number of members holding: 45
Value range: $2,091,110 – $4,767,057
(Photo from Johnson & Johnson's Google Plus page)
Rank: 10
Company: Exxon Mobil
Number of members holding: 45
Value range: $4,924,498 – $13,502,441
(AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
Rank: 9
Company: JPMorgan Chase
Number of members holding: 46
Value range: $1,377,048 – $3,661,000
(AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
Rank: 8
Company: Verizon Communications
Number of members holding: 47
