it can break out. to me qqq strategy is impressive if you have massive performers. >> it looks like our time has expired. for more "options action," we'll see you back here next week at 5:30. meantime, have a great weekend. "mad money" is up next. my mission is simple, to make you money. i'm here to level the playing field for all investors. hey, i'm cramer, welcome to "mad money," welcome to cramerica. other people want to make friends, i just want to make you money. my job is not just to entertain you but to educate and teach you as well. tweet me @jimcramer. maybe you can't smell it yet, but panic, it's in the air. panic that comes from investors

in hedge funds who sell all their stocks, short the whole market because they're terrified by the upcoming french presidential election. >> the house of pain. >> sunday. we saw some of that today, dow dipping 31%. nasdaq climbing 1.1%. what are they so afraid of? all right, the french election has turned into a four-way race and two of these candidates are extremists, one of the far left and one on the far right, whose positions are kind of frig frightenifrigh frighteni frightening, at least if you live in france. do you live in france? okay? if these two radical candidates made it into the second round of the election, i expect our stock market will sell off on monday

morning. but i feel like any france induced pull back is a buying opportunity. because in the end the french election has nothing to do with -- coming up to one of the four weeks a year where too many companies report all at once. i want to hit the highlights now so you're prepared and don't complain on twitter, please, because i didn't get to your stock. i got a jam packed thing here. monday we hear from kimberly clark, and it's like goldman-sachs in the '80s. this is a strategy that has never failed me and this time will be no different. hasbro has reported too much inventory at the store level. my guest is that hasbro will not serve the same fate. it's more experiential, and it does a huge amount of business selling disney toys, and given

that we have new "star wars" movies coming down the line, i bet it's a winner, not a loser like mattel. we can't focus on all of you, but let me try a couple. tuesday morning, coca-cola, then dupont, then mcdonald's 3m and about 30 other important companies. 2017 and 2018 can show some growth, maybe the company will give us an update on that mysterious investigation into its taxes. you want to own coca-cola. mcdonald's is running so much, some say it's ripe for a selloff. i say ceo steve easterbrook continueses to deliver, but if you want to wait and see, before you pull the trigger, i'm fine

with that. ely lily will paint a very good picture, it's been hammered lately. 3m is what we call a core portfolio holding. it's stock has been reliable as clock work ever sin. that plays right into their hands. those who don't own it can only hope that some nitpicker finds something wrong and it gives you a pull back to get in. after the close, chipotle reports, this is going to be a little tougher. the stock's already had a big run, i don't want you to chase. there are so many that the improving news may actually cause a short-term selloff before the stock advances again.

wednesday we hear from boeing, and all i know is that the company is doing fabulously. i expect a good quarter, but so does everyone else. no edge here, can united technologies deliver a quarter that's as good as honey well did this morning? what a quarter that was. this company has seen real strength in orders, so i get it's going to have real strength in numbers, and don't forget, this is the year that aerospace technology gets out of the teething phase. pepsico also comes wednesday, and we have come to expect that this company will deliver superb results. this should be one more excellent quarter. good sha but there's always someone itching to tell this thing, maybe we wait to see them buy. then there's twitter, so many people on twitter are dying to

buy twitter or dying inside because they own it already. i'm just waits to see what a tough quarter will two. i say it's too risky until we see those numbers, then we make a decision. i think i'll go to bed around 11:30 and get the job done around 12:00. a name well known -- many of the airlines are doing fabulous here, even united. but overseas, you have the video? did you not have the video? we mentioned the stock of united and we didn't run the video? i should stop right here, and start over. all right, anyway. why i like southwest is that it doesn't have international exposure. and it dominates it's domestic

business. bristol myers is being beaten by what merck's throwing at them. i think merck's got the better drug, i think they got to cut costs, if it doesn't, i think the stock is going to be very sluggish and continue to languish in the low 50s, i don't know. we hear endless chatter these days that domino's pizza is having a light quarter, one of those research firms, i don't know where people get this, i think this is another situation like kimberly clark where you just have to own it. the short position is humongous going into the quarter, so i anticipate a short drop so the investors can make it look right. could this be the quarter that under armor turns itself around? i like they're getting into coal, i like that the stock is totally hated, but it's still

expensive. i've been negative on it. i don't know if it's worth staying negative. after the pummeling. i want the amazon miss the quarter, and then you buy as this is just not an important quarter for the company, i told you to do that at $8.04. companies don't want to be next to advertise. i think they'll show you they have gotten a handle on this problem and therefore the stock can rally. i'm looking for a very good number from microsoft and i bet it's stock is worth owning ahead of the earnings, even after today's run. and starbucks, this is the first quarter where kevin johnson is the ceo and we need to give him some time. but so many analysts have already told us in the last two weeks that this is going to be a breakout quarter for starbucks

that the stock is going to get hammered if it isn't. analysts want to see a 5% to 6% sales growth, very tough number to beat. but i have to tell you, the numbers could do it. finally friday's exxonmobil, chevron and when it gets to $47, both chevron and exxon will be buys, if they have anything good to say? gm, the auto industry doesn't seem to be able to generate the profits it should and the stocks just can't get out of its own way, i think the stock will go higher in the morning. and then phil lebeau will give us the skinny and then it will go down. you need to take action when you get these numbers. you should be able to get the best stocks at a discount

because of france, even though you shouldn't. and i think you will, be ready, find one of these that you like for monday morning and then by this time, we'll forget about it entirely. we go to joe in new jersey. joe? >> caller: hello, cramer, it's an honor to talk to you and thanks for your great advice. my stock is johnson & johnson, i have owned it for a long time now. should i hold on to it or buy more shares? >> johnson and johnson reported on a day that i was not here. an i was remiss i was with my daughter. i checked on it when i got home and i didn't find any nearly as bad as everyone else did. i think you get to 121 before

you mull that trigger. i have faith in alex goresky. phillip in alabama. >> caller: hello, gym, first of all i want to say thank you for all you do, i really learned a lot from your show, miss question is on ppg industries. i was interested in your thoughts on ppg's attempt to buy -- what do you think it will do to the stock price, and would you consider it a buy or a hold? >> frankly i don't like to see hostile takeovers, i'm told school. i do believe that these could be a very hard deal to do. it worries me that ppg has to do it because it shows marry that business isn't as strong as i thought. but we did a piece about

valspar, it's a win if you can get it. paint's going up, but it smacks of desperation to do these hostile bids, i just don't like them. can i go to ray in new jersey, please, ray? >> caller: my symbol is parts product, it split and yielded 6.5, so i wanted to know if you think that yield is safe and good to hold. >> this spinoff, and the bankers made a lot of money. i have to do more work on it because i haven't looked at the spinoff because i didn't know that goldman was talking about it and i did not read through the note because i decided all i cared about was hilton so i will come back on park hotels. sometimes these things happen, i try to do all the spinoffs, but i haven't gotten to that one

yet. anyway, let them panic and you can seize the opportunity, some of these terrific companies can give you a rare part. if you can get 3m on a down day because of france or pepsico or dominos? next week is going to be interesting. the companies earnings may have shot them up but good. i'm sitting down with the ceo to find out what's head for the company. what's next for broad come. it's one of the largest semiconductors, it does have plans to keep going, i'm going over which companies this company might want to buy. and hedge funds might be entertaining, show time billions anyway? but they might not be doling out the best investmented ed advicel explain, stick with cramer. [ digital voice ] i used to be one of the world's most feared hackers.

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it's been a year week for proof confident. a cloud based platform -- we have all been hit by this stuff, on wednesday we notice a da game. stock's a buy. then on thursday, and they have sales executions. after last night's clothes, there was a bear thee cities with a beautiful quarter. >> in response the stocks shot back up. can this stock get off the roller coaster and start

climbing? get a better sense of the quarter, where the company is heading, mr. steele, welcome back to "mad money." >> thanks so much, it's great to be here. >> this was a monster quarter, when you get 40% increase in revenue, and 55th consecutive quarter of up numbers, you must have some tail wind in your favor. >> we have got a bunch of tail winds and it definitely played out in q-1, the cloud is helping us, the threat landscape obviously is incredibly challenging, and that is really the primary driver why people are buying our solution today. >> it absolutely is a product to help organizations to deal with fraud against their particular brands, so bad actors setting up look alike domains, and that's one of the reasons we brought

this to market. we think it will be a nice additional capability for our customers. >> actually your cfo raised the conference call. these are not that expensive per person, are they? >> no, they're actually relatively modest, but we do bring together a broad sweep to help individuals respond to broad threats zbrvmt it's $10. that's what it really comes down to? >> it's $10 per person per year, and many of our offerings are priced at that $10 rice point. as they move to office 365, which has been a big catalyst for proof point, those customers want more capabilities than they're getting today with office 365. and wire happy to deliver is

that and better protect those organizations. >> we have had palo alto on and spunk, good partners for you. >> we have had phenomenal outcomes with both palo alto and spluning. so customers are getting more value in us because of the integration we have done with those partners. >> they're clicking on the wrong thing and you can stop that. >> you know, that's what we do for a living, so we're all about protecting individuals and we have seen the threat landscape really move in that direction, where bad actors are targeting people, not infrastructure these days and as a result of that, companies need to wire protection that proof point provides. >> do you see people in stories that you read where someone just got so embarrassed or someone got in a lot of trouble and you just sigh to yourself, proof point would have made it where you never would have known that

that happened? >> those are the stories that our salespeople are out there working with new customers on. >> when you get these new customers, you have a huge number of banks. why do the banks know. oil and gas seems to know about you, some health care, but there's some industries, there's still the majority of the fortune 100 that isn't using you? >> today we have roughly half of the fortune 100, we have 31% of the fortune 1,000. while we have done really well, we still have a long ways to go, and we feel like the opportunity is great, and we feel like we have many great growth catalysts for many quarters to come. >> do you think people know what email compromise is at the board level? >> it's becoming more and more visible. so this area of business email compromise, often times known as email spoofing, it looks more like your boss is asking you to

do something you shouldn't do. these are the kinds of attacks that are really prevalent. we indicated in our prepared remarks that we had done a study in q-4 that these kinds of attacks were up 40%. so it's really having a big impact on corporate america. >> is there some sector where we neared to be more aware of? where they really seem to be targeting? >> i think it's really across the board, so today, we don't see specific verticals, necessarily, it's really about all organizations of all sizes being subject to these kinds of attacks. >> that's incredible. i just got to ask you, because i see my bank, it says clinton on click on it. but it's not my bank. amazon is constantly asking for my information, but they're not. apple is always asking for my information, but they're not. these guys are so good, garry, how can you detect it? >> we are very good, we employ a

big team of researcherings and data scientists and through the innovation that we provide, we are very good at detecting these kinds of things and it's something that we're vigilant at. and through that investment we're delivering great capabilities to better protect our customers. >> it's clearly working, you've got one of the best records, this thing has happened and you have really saved a lot of companies, good to talk to you, that's gary steele, he's the ceo of proof point. this stock is bouncing around, but it shouldn't be. it's a good one. coming up, the bigger money talks loudly, but it may not be telling you home gamers what you want to hear. when "mad money" returns. you've. c'mon. no. alright, see you down there. mmm, fine.

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with the market pulli ing bk again today, i think it's time we used this weak in high quality of stocks in this moment of decline. broadcom, we know the semiconductor business is in great shape and as i told you repeatedly, broadcom is one of the best in the industry, making chips for wired and wireless technology. but the thing i like most about this company is it's a great takeover expert. it's the product of a line long of acquisitions. the company shelled out $37 billion for the broadcom of old. then in november, the company announced that it was buying a network and equipment play.

the broadcom brocade deal is supposed to happen in november. i think it's worth pondering who they're go to next. let me give you some background, when ivago merged with the old broadcom last year, it created the third largest semiconduct for on earth. you probably should know that 99% of the world's data passes through at some point. the brocade purchase makes so much sense. it's also called storage area networks. thanks to a wave of con system days that occurred about a

decade ago, brocade systems is the only one left in this space, as old companies switched to more efficient hard drives, businesses need to upgrade their networks so they don't become the new bottleneckings for all this data. >> on on the of that, brocade also has a sizable -- as part of the deal, broadcom has decided to sell off that network business. they just want the company's five channel switching divisions, these are the highest end values, which sell to broadcom's companies. this should help bulk out broadcom's -- told you these guys know how to make acquisiti acquisitions. then we got to ask ourselves,

what's next for broadcom, who's on their shopping list? so we know there are more deals and we know what they're looking for. i've got two particular ideas here, first of all, there's been a lot of chatter about the possibility that broad come might buy xilin kmrks. the company makes flexible chips that can be programmed to fulfill many different purposes. first of all, it would give them more exposure to some very expensive end markets. aerospace among others.

5-d wireless technology. the company's chips are also an essential part of an embedding vision technology, helping to create machines that you can actually see and respond to the world in real time. they do a lot of business in the industrial internet of things. that's assuming they pay a 47% premium. but wait, they can easily raise that money by issuing bonds or issuing stock for other stock to purchase the company. and xilinx has they have got

every incentive to say yes. >> novrd to get its hands on the company's flash memory business. what makes me these this is possible. first we know that to shiba is n big trouble. second in have been a bunch of reports out of japan suggesting that broadcom and silver lake partners have oftened to buy this business. at the end of march, we heard thampz willi they were willing to pay 17.9 billion.

unfortunately the sale process hit a snag, and said that a sale of toshiba's business could violate their joint venture -- still, even if they can get past these difficulties, i don't think it would make a lot of sense for broadcom to buy toshiba's business. on top of that, the deal will be very expensive and then there's all that western digital related red tape. put all that together and i think it would be simpler for broadcom to forget about toshiba's chip business. broadcom's stock has been a terrific investment for years. now that it's latest deal, the brocade purchase looks like it will close in the next few months, i bet the companies

wachbl to gets on the prowl for a new deal. and given all of the consolidations in the skemis, i recent years, which is all the more reason for broadcom to do the smart thing and buy kbhrxil. carl in new york, carl? >> caller: boo-yah, jim, from new york, how yes cow doing? listen, jim, on japan, it opened up the ip was at 17 and we bought it at 24 when it came out to the public, then it was 29, and then it went into the toilet. >> is it a buy? i think it's going to have a really good quarter. that's revenues. i think you got to wait. you got to balance it.

20 at 18. it's not a bad company. bow about ben in alabama. >> caller: my question is on activision blizzard, atvi, i have owned them for about six months but they have skyrocketed in value. >> activision, all-time high again today are buys, because we are in a video game society. and the one current is turbocharged. i like it. don in california, please, don. >> this is don, venice, california. >> caller: i'm calling by call tom. what's going to happen with

qualcomm and apple and their suite and their suit? >> i talked to qualcomm and their reassuring. qualcomm is disliked by a lot of companies, it has emnitty above the board and because of that i don't feel safe recommending it. and the stock is at 52, then i will say buy, buy, buy. but not yet. and can i recommend qualcomm. broadcom has been a terrific performer for years, i expect it to be on the prowl for a new deal, and i think it should buy xilinx. when is the last time you heard a hedge fund manager saying he likes the market? me never, i'm going to reveal the best way to play the french

election too. and thank god it's a friday edition of "the lightning round." so stick with cramer.

i want you to think about something. did you ever hear of a big hedge fund manager come on the air and say, hey, i like the market at these levels. did you ever hear anyone say i have looked into this facebook and i actually like the 2017 earnings, i think it's a buy because of so many great people running the company. do you remember these guys telling you that apple's ready to roll, got to get back in when it was trading in the '90s. ever think that the crowd's for real?

did they point out that the industrials are doing fabulously. they need to be bought before they soar. no, nope not at all. in fact i bet most of the people that run big hedge funds wouldn't be caught dead owning any of those great stocks, if anything they want to short them. they're buccaneers, let's short them. i have now read enough investors letter and read enough stories to know that -- the most you'll get out of them is that they aren't all that short, or at least not yet, most are terrified of the market, or something else that says you got to get out of everything. i can't tell you how much this stuff drives me crazy, but i think i can tell you buy these money managers can get away without playing.

they made it long in 1299 -- 1999 and then again in 2000. so many of these people don't have to buy anything at all because they're already superrich and supersuccessful. they can sit there and say it's too expensive and never figure out why they missed so many points. when you're that wealthy, you care a lot more about not losing money, than not making it. take a billionaire who made his money shorting the stock market in key moments. it's very overvalued, and three, it can keep going higher, but not with my money. talk about a risk averattitudea. the problem is it's the wrong attitude for the rest of us, who don't have the good fortune to be billionaires. you're still out there trying to make some money, maybe for

retirement, maybe for vacation, maybe for school. even as these big hedge fund managers avoid trying to take a stand, other than to throw pot shots at you and me. i remember when apple was trading at 93 and one of the ma smartest men in the world would send me emails saying i was going to kill everyone in my path because of the amateurish way i told them to own apple. not short it. they said i was drinking the apple kool-aide. i read about apple service revenue and how the new products were going to sell incredibly well, how the balance sheet is always right. that didn't seem to matter, i was going kill people, annihilate them, when apple went higher, those guys don't write me anymore. maybe he's a little embarrassed. all i know is that i have come out every night looking for

ideas and many of these titans don't even bother to do the same anymore. and honestly, you can't even plame them. the only way they can tarnish their reputation is telling you to buy something and be wrong. believe me, i get it, you only need to get rich once, but regular investors shouldn't be taking their coup from these upper wealthy hedge fund guy who is just don't want to get in trouble. "the lightning round" is next, stick with cramer. ♪ the more you know bp engineered a fleet of 32 brand new ships with advanced technology, so we can make sure oil and gas get where they need to go safely. because safety is never being satisfied. and always working to be better.

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it is time, it is time for "the lightning round." [ buzzer ] then "the lightning round" is over. are you ready, skee-daddy? raul in new york. recall? >> caller: hey, jim. i wanted to ask you, jimpl, what do you think about dqm?

>> that's a good one, that's a good partnership, i do think it's safe. look, yields, you never know, but this one is a very well run company. let's go to michael in california, please, michael. >> caller: good afternoon, cramer, michael from san diego, california. i enjoy your program very much. but i would like to know about abb. . >> well run company. pete in michigan. >> caller: jim, black stone, symb symbol bx. >> i think it's a bye. let's go to nitin indiana. >> caller: i have a question about diva pharmaceuticals, i bought it a few weeks ago thinking it has already beaten down.

>> i don't want you selling that stock. by the way, i just think that it's just not good enough to be in your portfolio, end of story. mike in pennsylvania. mike? >> caller: mike, what an honor. i bring you greetings from the northwest suburbs of pennsylvania. >> what's up? >> caller: i'm calling because i love the cloud and i love 4k contempt and because of that i love fiber optics, oclaro. >> they're up and then they're down, but if you want a little speculation, i'm with you on that. eric in michigan. >> caller: snyders-lance. >> reporter: we're not going to

touch that, we need to know more, this was worrisomworrisom. let's go to gary in michigan. >> caller: is this the crown prince of wall street? >> crown prince? wow. zbluk what about freeport mcmoran. >> i don't like that index has been going down. jonathan in utah. >> caller: so my question is on the upcoming earnings per share lease, since donald trump won the past election, the share corecivic. where do you see the up coming earnings? >> i felt probably about 10% ago it was done going higher, and it keeps going higher, i think you got a better handle on it than i do and it's probably going to

have a deechntd quarter. decent quarter. the good, the bad, and the ugly, you don't want the entire grurp, just on the best ones. jook in georgia, jack. >> caller: hey, jim, it's jack. i had a couple of questions for you about t-mobile stock. >> i'm not saying the first round of the french presidential election coming this sunday, somehow doesn't matter. >> caller: cramer, it's eminem. >> what's up?

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could the home improvements stock in america be the way to offset the volatility from the french election?

sherwin williams reported in the last 24 hours. all three are classic home depot and lowe's place. and the stocks of these two home improvements retailers should be bought into any market weakness caused by in week's election results. when the panic button has been hit, an you'll know it sunday night, all big cap stocks will go down. and they are big cap stocks that will be caught up in the s&p 500 decli decline. both companies have been doing very well, meanwhile, we're on the verge of spring planting season, that's the christmas season, where the numbers could be excellent for the outdoor garden season. they make a fortune in just a couple of weeks time. investors will be worried about the state of consumer. everybody since the health care debacle in congress, if we know the consumer is still painting their house, if we know the small business person is still

buying tools, right alongside the do-it-yourselfers. we have a used number of aisles covered by what we know are doing fabulously, at both lowe's and home depot, here's what i would do. i urge you to get comfortable with those stocks this weekend, i urge you to buy the one that's down the most. the futures are down hideously on monday. i would buy right into that weakness. i think it's the best way to capitalize on the french election. we have been slacking off on this twitter front. let's take some questions from you, the home gamer. first up is kb lover. who asked, at@jim cramer, are there really no more solid purr

pet plays? you know what? there really aren't. and one of the reasons i selected is that ix labs is another good situation to buy. if the wrong people win in france, ix labs. now a tweet, at @madmoney. i think it's a terrific idea, saw them ring the bell. i think that weaste management s in for a couple of really good quarters. on the csx conference call, they did a lot of talk about how materials for infrastructure are -- boston shane 666. wanted to know, at @madmoney. my friend who looked at the charts says that this stock is

stabilizing, i say i want to buy wynne. i think it goes higher. jdym7 asks, do you think general mills is in a position to move forward? the only catalyst would be if kraft is going to buy them. and finally, skbrak tweeted, at @jimcramer, thanks for everything you do and remember, gino's for life. stay tuned, my last word of the week is next. stay with cramer. and her paw won't heal on its own. we're all working forward to something. synchrony financial can help your customers make it happen sooner.

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