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Cramer on a Quest and doing a Jones

Jim Cramer reviewed a last Fallen Angel on CNBC's MAD MONEY tonight: Quest Diagnostics (NYSE:DGX). He owns it in his trust, for disclosure. He said that Quest losing Oxford's business (UnitedHealth Group NYSE:UNH) took the stock down under $49. The company had already announced the news a month earlier. He isn't minimizing the business loss, or so he says, because it was $400 million of their $6 billion in total business. The company beat last week by $0.05 on EPS, but lowered guidance. He said it traded up $1.00 because the street is assuming it is conservative. He thinks it could earn $3.10 and they are low-balling estimates at $2.95. It closed at $52.25 and is now up at $52.90 in after-hours. J.P.Morgan just raised it and a broker luncheon on it last week was over-attended.

Cramer interviewed the CEO of Jones Soda (NASDAQ:JSDA), Peter van Stolk, before closing down MAD MONEY until tomorrow. It lost Target business, but he said that is only 2% of their business. The company doesn't use high-fructose corn syrup, they use cane sugar. Cramer doesn't think it has finished rising. The company won't be announcing any new product data until the first week of March. Cramer said it was up $1.00, but he said let it pull-back and then you can buy it since it was up so much today. This after-hours pop before it came in is another yearly high, and the company had a $376 million market cap as of the close. This stock, if it meets the $0.14 estimate in 2007 without beating estimates, then it now trades at 100-times December 2007 fiscal EPS projections. He's been behind this one before (back on December 21 he called the next Hansen Natural [NASDAQ:HANS]), on more than one occasion.

Jon Ogg is a partner in 24/7 Wall St., LLC; he does not own securities in the companies he covers.

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