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FeedPosted Oct 24th 2009 2:20PM by Trey Thoelcke (RSS feed)
Filed under: Earnings reports, Apple Inc (AAPL), Amazon.com (AMZN), McDonald's (MCD), 3M Corporation (MMM), Caterpillar (CAT), New York Times'A' (NYT), Bank of New York (BK), Hershey Co (HSY), Gannett Co (GCI), Morgan Stanley (MS), Kimberly-Clark (KMB), United Parcel'B' (UPS), Lockheed Martin (LMT), Broadcom Corp'A' (BRCM), SLM Corp (SLM)
Continue reading Earnings highlights: Amazon, Apple, Caterpillar, Hershey, McDonald's, UPS ...
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 Sep 23rd 2009 10:00AM by Jim Cramer (RSS feed)
Filed under: Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), General Electric (GE), Market matters, International Business Machines (IBM), 3M Corporation (MMM), Caterpillar (CAT), Boeing Co (BA), EMC Corp (EMC), Honeywell Intl (HON), United Technologies (UTX), Eaton Corp (ETN), Cramer on BloggingStocks
TheStreet.com's Jim Cramer says the weak dollar is benefiting U.S. corporations and no longer going against them. Why have the industrials been so red-hot? Why do they seem to levitate? One reason, of course, is that people think the economy's getting better. A second reason is that even if the economy stands still vs. last year the comparisons will be amazing and nothing gets the juices going more rapidly than easy comparisons.
Why will they be so glaring? First, the layoffs have been brutal, the cost-cutting immense and it hasn't hurt at all ... yet. It is totally and unequivocally positive.
Continue reading Cramer on BloggingStocks: Weak dollar powering profits
Posted Sep 8th 2009 10:20AM by Jim Cramer (RSS feed)
Filed under: General Electric (GE), Market matters, 3M Corporation (MMM), Costco Wholesale (COST), Kraft Foods'A' (KFT), Cramer on BloggingStocks
TheStreet.com's Jim Cramer says takeover deals and major stock upgrades are going to be hard to fight. Worldwide funded freight train coming at you. Hard to fight. Hard to stand in front of. That's what I think is happening here. It is clear that Ron Insana, in his fabulous
Market Movers commentary this morning and with his quick moves to catch some of the move, totally agrees with me. It doesn't take much to see that
Doug Kass is going full bore against me.
I feel like Michael Corleone in the lamented
Godfather III. Every time I want to get out, they pull me back in again, and this time the pull is from the macro, where the central bankers keep plowing the money in, and from the micro, where one of the biggest deals in ages -- the
Kraft (NYSE:
KFT) (
Cramer's Take) hostile on Cadbury -- reminds us that stocks aren't expensive, they are cheap.
Continue reading Cramer on BloggingStocks: Catch the big move, or it'll get you
Posted Aug 14th 2009 3:10PM by Joseph Lazzaro (RSS feed)
Filed under: Stocks to Buy

I'm Reiterating my Buy rating for
3M Co. (NYSE:
MMM), first recommended
on April 20, 2009 at a price of $51.97. If you purchased MMM at that time, you're up a solid 37%.
Back in April, I argued, among other factors, that a strong case for buying 3M's shares could be made based on the company's strong free cash flow, net return on capital, and reasonable P/E (the about 11), before everyone else jumped on the bandwagon.
Continue reading With 3M, it's probably now or never for an outsized gain
Posted Jul 31st 2009 10:00AM by Jim Cramer (RSS feed)
Filed under: Apple Inc (AAPL), Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), Ford Motor (F), Market matters, Walt Disney (DIS), International Business Machines (IBM), AT and T (T), 3M Corporation (MMM), Caterpillar (CAT), Schlumberger Limited (SLB), Citigroup Inc. (C), Johnson and Johnson (JNJ), JPMorgan Chase (JPM), Bank of America (BAC), Bed Bath and Beyond (BBBY), Best Buy (BBY), FedEx Corp (FDX), Verizon Communications (VZ), Lennar Corp'A' (LEN), United Parcel'B' (UPS), Anadarko Petroleum (APC), Wells Fargo (WFC), Stocks to Buy, Norfolk Southern Corp. (NSC), Union Pacific Corporation (UNP), Cramer on BloggingStocks
Continue reading Cramer on BloggingStocks: You can't afford to be certain
Posted Jul 26th 2009 11:40AM by Tom Johansmeyer (RSS feed)
Filed under: Earnings reports, Recession, Financial Crisis
Good news: profits are back. Bad news: it hurts like hell to get them.
With Q2 reports starting to come in, several high-profile companies have turned in positive results, and a few -- like Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT), IBM (NYSE: IBM), Pfizer (NYSE: PFE), 3M (NYSE: MMM), and Lowe's (NYSE: LOW) -- have even upped the ante for the rest of the year.
Expectations were low, making the outcomes look surprisingly strong. According to a Thomson Reuters, a third of the biggest companies in the United States that have turned in their Q2 results, and 76% of them have beaten analyst expectations. Less than a fifth of them are losing money.
Continue reading Profits are up, but for how long?
Posted Jul 25th 2009 3:40PM by Trey Thoelcke (RSS feed)
Filed under: Earnings reports, General Electric (GE), 3M Corporation (MMM), Caterpillar (CAT), Halliburton (HAL), Boston Scientific (BSX), duPont(E.I.)deNemours (DD), Texas Instruments (TXN), United Technologies (UTX), Eaton Corp (ETN)
Continue reading Earnings highlights: Caterpillar, DuPont, GE, Halliburton, Texas Instruments ...
Posted Jul 18th 2009 11:00AM by Jamie Dlugosch (RSS feed)
Filed under: Stocks to Sell
Given the economic crisis and global recession, I hypothesized that multinationals may suffer as a result of a strong dollar. The idea being that investors would flock to the dollar in search of safety. Over the last quarter though, the reverse has been true.
The dollar weakened significantly as investors bet against the greenback due to inflationary spending in the U.S. As a result, the multinationals have been big winners in the last quarter.
3M (NYSE: MMM) though was only up slightly in the second quarter as the company's products failed to capture the imagination of buyers across the globe. When the dollar strengthens in the latter half of 2009, look for MMM to stumble.
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