FeedPosted Nov 5th 2009 9:30AM by Jim Cramer (RSS feed)
Filed under: Google (GOOG), Apple Inc (AAPL), Pfizer (PFE), Market matters, McDonald's (MCD), Caterpillar (CAT), Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY), Chevron Corp (CVX), General Mills (GIS), Procter and Gamble (PG), Kimberly-Clark (KMB), Kohl's Corp (KSS), Polo Ralph Lauren'A' (RL), Stocks to Buy, Cramer on BloggingStocks
TheStreet.com's Jim Cramer says you can be bearish, but you have to admit when you're wrong. Oh boy, I hit a nerve. My last two days of donning the bear suit and imitating the bears has brought on a cacophony of critics, all of whom think that I am attacking them personally! That's right, they think I have read them, seen them and heard them and that I am spoofing them or making fun of them.
Moreover, they think that I am wildly bullish and that I am mocking them for not wanting to buy things here.
Continue reading Cramer on BloggingStocks: All I'm asking for is rigor
Posted Nov 3rd 2009 10:00AM by Jim Cramer (RSS feed)
Filed under: Market matters, Black and Decker (BDK), Cramer on BloggingStocks
TheStreet.com's Jim Cramer says opportunistic mergers help deliver value to shareholders during difficult times. The companies aren't oblivious to this difficult environment. It isn't just that they look at the futures and say, "Uh oh, here comes another bad one" -- the reaction we all feel today. No, it doesn't work like that. They realize that growth's been lowered worldwide and that they can't do it on their own because they don't have critical mass and they have to give up and get together with others in their industries to bring out value.
Black & Decker (NYSE:
BDK) (
Cramer's Take) and
Encore (NYSE:
EAC) (
Cramer's Take) came to this exact same conclusion at the same time. They just can't make more money for their shareholders independently than they can with other partners. With Encore settling for
Denbury's (NYSE:
DNR) (
Cramer's Take) bid and Black & Decker agreeing to be acquired by
Stanley Works (NYSE:
SWK) (
Cramer's Take), both are settling for about half of what their companies were worth two years ago. But the world has changed in two years, and a lot of the rosy scenarios that justified being independent have to be reconsidered.
Continue reading Cramer on BloggingStocks: Going it alone isn't always wise
Posted Nov 2nd 2009 10:00AM by Jim Cramer (RSS feed)
Filed under: Coca-Cola (KO), PepsiCo (PEP), Market matters, Citigroup Inc. (C), CIT Group (CIT), Kellogg Co (K), General Mills (GIS), Cramer on BloggingStocks
TheStreet.com's Jim Cramer wonders whether the big selloff was caused by anxious managers locking in profits. What happens if it is was mostly lock-in action? What if the big themes that everyone so feared weren't so big, and that the selloff -- so ugly, with so much damage -- was just technical and remains that way?
Besides my oft-repeated statement that I don't expect a pullback to exceed 7%, I think this market didn't make a lot of sense last week.
Here were the big themes: dollar getting stronger, causing a decline in minerals and resources; industrials faltering; recession stocks roaring back.
Continue reading Cramer on BloggingStocks: Assigning blame after Friday's market plunge
Posted Oct 30th 2009 10:00AM by Jim Cramer (RSS feed)
Filed under: Market matters, QUALCOMM Inc (QCOM), Cramer on BloggingStocks
TheStreet.com's Jim Cramer says you can't give up on Tessera and SBA Communications based on one bad quarter. Tessera (NASDAQ:
TSRA) (
Cramer's Take) and
SBA Communications (NASDAQ:
SBAC) (
Cramer's Take) "blow up" last night and you have to think, "The tsunami's over," that the smartphone revolution's not occurring.
To which I say, no one likes the blowups, no one likes the guidedowns, but, like
Qualcomm (NASDAQ:
QCOM) (
Cramer's Take), these are all multiyear stories that can't be judged on a quarter. The idea that we do not need more cell towers with smartphone data hogs like the iPhone out there, and the idea that miniaturization and cooler computers (Tessara's strengths) are played out, makes no sense to me.
Continue reading Cramer on BloggingStocks: See the big picture on the mobile internet tsunami
Posted Oct 28th 2009 9:50AM by Jim Cramer (RSS feed)
Filed under: Market matters, Nokia Corp. (NOK), Oracle Corp (ORCL), salesforce.com inc (CRM), Cramer on BloggingStocks
TheStreet.com's Jim Cramer says taking down all of software on the back of this outlook is a mistake. And on the fifth down day, we decided that
SAP's (NYSE:
SAP) (
Cramer's Take) butt getting kicked means the industry is faltering? This is the thought that went through my head when I saw SAP's disappointing news and its alibi that business is weak. That's why it stumbled. Of course, SAP's comments immediately took all of Europe down. Nobody said, "Hey, maybe it is SAP's fault because
Oracle's (NASDAQ:
ORCL) (
Cramer's Take) kicking their butt." No one said, "Sure it is weak, because in the end
Salesforce.com (NYSE:
CRM) (
Cramer's Take) got a better mousetrap."
Continue reading Cramer on BloggingStocks: SAP isn't everything
Posted Oct 26th 2009 9:30AM by Jim Cramer (RSS feed)
Filed under: Apple Inc (AAPL), Market matters, Broadcom Corp'A' (BRCM), Marvell Technology Group (MRVL), Stocks to Buy, Cramer on BloggingStocks
The Street.com's Jim Cramer says that after a tough week, the semiconductor industry finally gets some good news. Will
Marvell Technology (NASDAQ:
MRVL) (
Cramer's Take) give what
TriQuint (NASDAQ:
TQNT) (
Cramer's Take) and
Broadcom (NASDAQ:
BRCM) (
Cramer's Take) took away?
Last week, we had the one-two punch of TriQuint and Broadcom really making the whole Internet tsunami look more like a tropical storm. They both talked about withering demand, and Broadcom verified the bears' double-order thesis, but this morning Marvell says that things are on target, there's no wavering and demand is strong. Bears can take their pick.
Continue reading Cramer on BloggingStocks: Marvell could be a boon for the semis
Posted Oct 22nd 2009 10:00AM by Jim Cramer (RSS feed)
Filed under: 3M Corporation (MMM), S and P 500, DJIA, Cramer on BloggingStocks, Travelers Companies Inc. (TRV)
TheStreet.com's Jim Cramer says that as long as we're trapped in a commoditized stock market, use the futures to go bargain-hunting.
What if individual stocks want to go up, but the market wants to go down? Don't laugh. In 1982, when The Kansas City Board of Trade started trading Value Line futures (before there were S&P futures), we used to kick around in securities classes what would happen if eventually stocks became so commoditized that individual companies couldn't be removed from the gravitational pull.
For example, we know today looks like a terrible day, with Europe down horribly and our futures real soggy. But then we look and see that J. Crew (NYSE: JCG) (Cramer's Take), one of the best retailers, is not just saying that the fall season is good; it is saying it is blowout beyond imagination. The big Dow stock 3M (NYSE: MMM) (Cramer's Take) is not just saying that things are getting better; it is showing that business is very strong. The monster insurer and fellow Dow stock Travelers (NYSE: TRV) (Cramer's Take) is boosting the dividend and showing you how a responsible financial can behave.
Continue reading Cramer on BloggingStocks: Great stocks at better prices
Posted Oct 21st 2009 9:30AM by Jim Cramer (RSS feed)
Filed under: Analyst reports, Texas Instruments (TXN), Cramer on BloggingStocks
The Street.com's Jim Cramer says that they should recognize that what's more important than being a bear is being right.
Ah, the lot of the bear is a beautiful lot -- never wrong, always having fun at the bullish optimists, never going down for defeat. For them, every day is a day when the St. Louis Cardinals will face the Boston Red Sox in the World Series, even after they have been eliminated.
Cases in point: two reports yesterday on Texas Instruments (NYSE: TXN) (Cramer's Take) from the Joy Luck Bear Club, Christopher Danely from JPMorgan and Alex Gauna from JMP Securities. Both of these gentlemen have fought the good but totally wrong fight against Texas Instruments. After what was a monumentally good quarter for the company, Gauna, who has Texas Instruments as an "underperform," raised his price target dramatically from $16 to $18. That would be totally in keeping with the direction of the earnings (way up), except that the stock's at $23.50.
Continue reading Cramer on BloggingStocks: Bearish analysts wrong on Texas Instruments
Posted Oct 20th 2009 10:00AM by Jim Cramer (RSS feed)
Filed under: Google (GOOG), Intel (INTC), Market matters, Scandals, Sun Microsystems (JAVA), Akamai Technologies (AKAM), Cramer on BloggingStocks
The Street.com's Jim Cramer says that it's awful knowing that Galleon had every single nuance of the next Intel call. The call. The edge. The inside scoop. At one point, you could have it. At one point, before Regulation Fair Disclosure (FD), persistence, hard work, going to meetings, doing everything you could to learn a company entitled you to a callback from the company. The rules were clear: If you got something that was material and non-public, you couldn't trade on it, you were frozen. But there were some blurred lines and the intensive research shops with great industry contacts could get an ever-so-slight heads up that could make a difference. Or you could go to a one-on-one where management might let slip something no one had, and you could have that momentary head start.
But Regulation FD ended all that. All the insider calls, the disclosure at one-on-ones, anything that smacked even of proprietary information. The rules were no longer voluntary. It wasn't a question of freezing. It was a question of talking. You couldn't talk to "them." Hedge funds could not talk one-on-one to anyone of authority at a company. The insider would face prosecution, do you weren't even supposed to try.
Continue reading Cramer on BloggingStocks: A mockery of the game
Posted Oct 19th 2009 9:30AM by Jim Cramer (RSS feed)
Filed under: Apple Inc (AAPL), Market matters, International Business Machines (IBM), Gap Inc (GPS), Cramer on BloggingStocks
TheStreet.com's Jim Cramer says that from a chart perspective, this could be about the greatest bull market in history. Chart to chart to chart this weekend and all I see, except for a couple of health maintenance, medical device and drug companies plus some fertilizer stocks, is just a remarkable and, yes, unheralded run in every single group.
Some of them are of the pure recovery style: every oil and gas, now including refinery, as the crude price inches back to $100 and natural gas has started its way back up; the life insurers that were left for dead when we decided that all commercial mortgages would be destroyed taking them with the bad loans; the overly-indebted companies like
Textron (NYSE:
TXT) (
Cramer's Take) that have roared back without any real support from anyone.
But others are just monumental. Anything paper or wood or glass. These aren't quitting.
Continue reading Cramer on BloggingStocks: A monumental run
Posted Oct 16th 2009 9:40AM by Jim Cramer (RSS feed)
Filed under: Intel (INTC), Market matters, Cypress Semiconductor (CY), SanDisk Corp (SNDK), Cramer on BloggingStocks
The Street.com's Jim Cramer says that it's too soon to think about selling the semis, the PCs, the components, the DRAMs. When do we sell the semis? The DRAMS? The flash? When do we get out of the hard drives?
These are legit questions, but the people who are asking, "When do we sell
Micron (NYSE:
MU) (
Cramer's Take),
Western Digital (NYSE:
WDC) (
Cramer's Take) and
SanDisk (NASDAQ:
SNDK) (
Cramer's Take)?" are the very people who told you never to own them.
That's the conundrum of this semi cycle and PC cycle. Just as we are finally hitting our stride and we realize that the semi cycle is alive and well again, AND NOT JUST RE-STOCKING, all over the papers, including the Wall Street Journal, we see reports crying, "When do we sell?"
Continue reading Cramer on BloggingStocks: The chips aren't down
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