The photo caption on this story previously included a partial quote from Jim Cramer, it has been updated to include the full quote. It rose just 1. The Action Alerts Plus portfolio, which is used in part by Cramer and TheStreet. The Vanguard Diversified Equity Fund, by comparison, a mutual fund composed of a blend of U. In addition to co-managing Action Alerts Plus, Cramer is the founder of TheStreet Inc.

Allergan has a 4. There are a number of factors at play in why Action Alerts Plus has underperformed the market, including most prominently the fact that the fund keeps a large cash position so that it can donate money to charity, according to both the Wharton report and TheStreet.

Today its smallest-cap holding is in Panera Bread Co. CNBC no longer uses Nielsen, and instead sells ads based off ratings from Cogent Reports, which declined to comment or provide ratings to MarketWatch.

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CNBC also declined to comment on specific ratings. In its most recent 10Q, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, it said that the decline in business-to-consumer revenue was primarily related to TheStreet newsletter products. The business had 71, total paid subscribers as of March 31, which, a source close to the matter said, primarily comprises Action Alerts Plus subscribers.

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Nearly 5, of those dropouts, 4,, have occurred since the end of TheStreet declined to comment on the loss in subscribers. Shares of TheStreet TST, Jennifer Booton is a MarketWatch reporter based in New York. You can follow her on Twitter jbooton.

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