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Clinton's Namefolio Edges Out Obama's

TSC Staff

Adding the application to one's Facebook profile generates a mock portfolio, the NameFolio, that contains 1000 shares of each company whose ticker symbol is found within the name of the account holder. From that point, users can compete against their friends by determining the valuation of their names. For example, at market close yesterday, May 5, the name "Hillary Clinton" was a more valuable name than the name "Barack Obama" because of how the letters of Clinton's name match up with the tickers in her NameFolio.

Clinton's stocks -- Hillenbrand(HI Quote - Cramer on HI - Stock Picks), Lumber Liquidators(LL Quote - Cramer on LL - Stock Picks), Agilent(A Quote - Cramer on A - Stock Picks), Royal Bank of Canada(RY Quote - Cramer on RY - Stock Picks), Mack-Cali Realty(CLI Quote - Cramer on CLI - Stock Picks), NetSuite(N Quote - Cramer on N - Stock Picks) and San Anton Capital(TON.P Quote - Cramer on TON.P - Stock Picks) -- carry a Namefolio value of $168,180 at Monday's close.

Obama's namefolio consists of Boeing(BA Quote - Cramer on BA - Stock Picks), Rackable Systems(RACK Quote - Cramer on RACK - Stock Picks), OneBeacon(OB Quote - Cramer on OB - Stock Picks), American Greetings(AM Quote - Cramer on AM - Stock Picks) and Agilent, and was worth $165,720 at Monday's close.

NameFolio links to Stockpickr.com which keeps users' interest by tracking and graphing year-to-date NameFolio returns, providing lists of stocks that comprise competing NameFolios, and linking to individual stock information pages.

"We wanted to capitalize on the trend of the Facebook audience's rapid expansion into the Stockpickr demographic," said James Altucher, President of Stockpickr.com.

Stockpickr.com is a wholly owned subsidiary of TheStreet.com(TSCM Quote - Cramer on TSCM - Stock Picks), the publisher of this Web site.