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The 'Hannah Montana' Stock Index
10/24/07 - 09:20 AM EDT
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Editor's note: This column was submitted by Stockpickr member Fred Fuld, of Stockerblog.com. You may not know Hannah Montana, but chances are your 10-year-old niece does. Hannah Montana is the extremely popular television series that stars Miley Cyrus, the 14-year-old daughter of Billy Ray Cyrus, the country crooner-turned-actor who happens to play the father of the title character. The series follows the fictional life of a teenage girl named Miley Stewart who leads a double life as both a popular music star named Hannah Montana and a regular girl next door who hides her famous identity so she can live a normal life out of the spotlight. Last week, the show was No. 7 on the Nielsen Ratings of all cable network television shows, with 4.99 million viewers. The show and star's immense popularity has prompted Stockpickr.com and Stockerblog.com to put together a Hannah Montana Stock Index, which tracks the companies connected to the Hannah Montana franchise. Hannah Montana is one of Disney's(DIS - Cramer's Take - Stockpickr) most successful television shows, popular among "tweens" between the ages of 10 and 14. It's also one of the company's most thriving brands, with books, soundtracks, games, puzzles, dolls, bedding and costumes. As an example of how successful the Hannah Montana brand is, tickets to the multiple-city Hannah Montana Live Tour have sold out so quickly that scalpers have reportedly been getting as much as $2,500 per ticket. Disney has a
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