good i am worried about some of the best companies, including two tonight, with stocks under pressure that we're going to have to talk to later in the show look, it's terrific for the bulls. the hardest part of the engineered slowdown may be burning its course a full year after the bear market got rolling. but when you hear something like crowdstrike, a terrific cloud-based software company that said last night is having trouble closing deals and they're in cyber security and it isn't making money, the fed can't bail them out. that doesn't happen. that's not where you want to be. if your company has just laid off a bunch of people because it's losing money, that's not where you want to be if your company doesn't return capital, that's not where you want to be maybe you think i'm making one more clarion call for apple. my call remains the same own it, don't trade it the microsoft's game on. etsy, sure, honey well stock,

bad shape. cousteau, tjx, ford, they're awful cheap if we don't get a recession and they're all starting to get priced for recession. the same goes for higher yielding oil stocks. use this moment to pivot get out of the stocks i've been railing about. there is a woman told me yesterday her mother has all these crummy stocks. get into stocks and companies that make things and have profit and return some of that to you santa j may be coming to town. stay way from the stocks that are naughty. buy the ones that are nice bradley in california. bradley? >> hey, jimmy, the original philly phanatic. >> you betcha' what's going on? >> a question on retail giant macy's their stock has been on a rally, pretty much correlation with the dow last two weeks i'm wondering how sustainable the underappreciated stock will remain, especially with the fed softening stance and the

resilient consumer in play >> bradley, this question, when m macy's was at 50, i liked it 20 i liked it. you know what? it turns out it's at 23 and the numbers are still great. so i say- >> buy, buy, buy. >> call me a buyer jerry in missouri, please, jerry? >> caller: jim, i am a club member whose estee lauder position has now -- [ cheering ] >> estee lauder. and then we have ulta tomorrow ulta is going to say great things about estee lauder and the chinese are going to have to open yes! what's up? >> caller: unfortunately, i'm not doing as well with my position of the only ev manufacturer to actually deliver significant quantities of vehicles should i double down, hold or just get out of tesla. >> no, i mean, look, i do believe that -- i'm not going to go against musk. i just don't muss simplistic too smart. tesla is down a lot mostly

because people are worried he has to pay so much -- he has to worry about twitter. once this thing is past us and he figures out what to do with twitter, which he will, he'll be fine santa jay is indeed coming to town he says stay way from the stalks that are naughty he is telling you to buy the ones that are night, although he is not being that granular in truth. tonight, salesforce announces after the bell that bret taylor plans to step down i like that guy. we have to learn what is happening over there with ceo marc benioff on "squawk on the street," i took a tip is of something delicious. it's called figgy pudding spam juice. and tonight i'mtalking to the mastermind behind the brand, hormel, to get a sense of what the company has in store and could snowflake earnings bring a blizzard to wall street? i'm checking in on the cloud stock. it's one of my favorites in terms of the company we got to talk about the stock, with the company's top brass, so stay with cramer

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well, we fell in love through gaming. but now the internet lags and it throws the whole thing off. when did you first discover this lag? i signed us up for t-mobile home internet. ugh! but, we found other interests. i guess we have. [both] finch! let's go! oh yeah! it's not the same. what could you do to solve the problem? we could get xfinity? that's actually super adult of you to suggest. i can't wait to squad up. i love it when you talk nerdy to me. guy, guys, guys, we're still in session. and i don't know what the heck you're talking about. ♪ just when jay powell got us excited about high quality tech stocks again, salesforce.com reports after the closing the stock is getting hammered. i got to tell you, i think it is excessive. salesforce beat a couple of sizable 18-cent earnings off $1.22 basis.

yes, cash flow was a little light. the revenue forecast for the current quarter which came in a tad weaker, but more important the fact that co-ceo bret taylor now announced his resignation at the end of the year. while that's not a deal, count me in as a huge bret taylor fan. it probably doesn't warrant this kind of sell-off do not take it from me, though a few moments ago i spoke with marc benioff he is the chairman, co-founder and now ceo to get a better read on the situation marc, welcome back to "mad money. >> thanks, jim it's great to be with you, always >> all right, so marc, i see some terrific numbers here earnings much better than expected sales better than expected operating cash flow better than expected yes, conservative margin guide i know that was something that new people who were shareholders talked about and i see the stock down so i don't want to bury the lead there is a man you introduced me to who i respect tremendously who i think was a fantastic partner of yours, bret taylor.

we sat down together when we were at dreamforce, and he is obviously a force to be rec continue with. fantastic alter to you toy have believe why your stock is down in after hours trading is because you lost the best that i've ever seen you have >> well, jim, look, it's -- it's a gut punch. you know, running the company, and i've been doing this now for 25 years, you look for the best people in the world to bring them in. and the hardest part is when they tell you that they want to leave. and that's where we are with bret bret is leaving at the end of the year it's hard. every loss for me reminds me of the previous loss. it can be gassner, kinyen, blitzer, keith blaugh.

you can't keep a wild tiger in a cage, and i've learned that. and you do your best you bring up great talent. if they need to leave, they need to leave you have to skorpupport them. i love him you know i love him like a brother. i'll love him forever. he is an amazing person. i've been so thrilled to work with him for the last seven years. i knew him before that as well all i can pray is i continue to work for him as he goes to start his third company now. >> to give you another angle, when you introduced me to him, this twitter has to be too much for him. he is dealing head to head with musk he is doing an amazing job at twitter. it's not what he thought he would get out to you know that that role made him be the right to be able to be ceo of any company in the country. any company. that's how well he handled himself. do you think that's what influenced him to say marc, i got to go out on my own? >> you'll have to ask him. i really am sorry to see him go.

but what a great person. and it's been an honor to work with him i'm going to love him freorever >> you did everything you could to keep him. >> thank you >> well, look, let's talk about the quarter in light of that because i think that, you know it overshadows you taught us that it overshadows. you taught us to love the guy. we didn't know the guy until you told about him and we love him. how about the rpo? we do have to transition we have people in the stock. they know you can be conservative on your revenue guidance which means maybe you're conservative about the world, about the dollar, international. why don't you tell us what makes you a little less robust about what i think you could have got without any problem at all >> well, jim, i've been doing this now for two and a half decades, and i've been through several different financial crises we of course went through '08-'09 together and we're going through another

unusual set of financial characteristics, not just in the markets, but this the company overall including ceo confidence i think when you look at those things, and we've been talking about that now for several quarters, you've seen these increasingly measured buying environments but also foreign exchange like we could have never anticipated. when we gave guidance a year ago, we could have never expected that now we've had $900 million foreign exchange headwind for the year, including 300 million in the quarter it was awesome that we could actually hold our guidance, because we've experienced in a foreign exchange situation changes in the yen and the euro that are unprecedented >> at the same time, i know the folks. i like them very much. they happen to be different kind of so-called activists they said they wanted to see your margins higher. you gave them tremendous margins. i know you always want higher margins. but you get 22.7 i was looking for 21 so if margins are going well, that makes me less cautious about your caution

>> well, i'll tell you, jim, you're looking at this correctly. of course, we all want the same thing. we've talked about that as well, which is we want strong shareholder returns, and we want to have increased operating margins as well as increasing rev revenues here we are with record revenues, jim, of 7.84 billion for the quarter. one of the highest reported revenues for any software company ever it's up on 19% and with the headwind 14%. but you can also see, jim, we've got an operating margin here which is also at a record level at 22.7% we've never been able to deliver that before. that's a long way from when we first met when the operating margin was 10% so it gives me continued confidence in our focus and increasing operating margin, which is very important to me personally, and also increasing revenue, continuing to deliver for our customers. and i'll tell you, we also

closed a lot of marquee transactions in the quarter. and that has been a highlight for me >> t-mobile, bank of america, dell i want the fasting growing telco, i want the largest bank and best solid consumer plus tech company and you did win those three. >> let's think about that in terms of every industry is handling these kind of financial headwinds a little differently of course, it's been a great time for the banks and one of the largest banks in the world, bank of america standardized on salesforce, we have such an incredible relationship with brian moynihan now for a couple of decades. and now adding in his business bank, corporate bank, investment bank into the salesforce family. we want to be able to give each one of those, you know, incredible important parts of bank of america our customer 360 platform and they have all their own uthiecke needs whether it would be in sales or marketing or commerce or even in collaboration with slack so the ability to work with bank

of america once again, to increase their use of salesforce, that's fantastic for us and we're thrilled you also mentioned t-mobile. of course we love mike we've continued to grow with mike mike has done an incredible job with his merger. now he is really focusing on his b-to-b capability which is what this next level of our relationship is about, helping him to go to market more aggressively, directly to business and the third one you mentioned, michael bell and that's another multidecade relationship to really help him not only go through the huge transformation he has gone through, not only with dell, not only with emc, not only with vmware, but making sure he has the customer 360 he needs to have the great success for his company. >> a lot of people feel the tide has turned negative for tech we're done with tech, they're too expensive, that it's finished what i hear from you is look, it's going to be more lucrative. you're taking share. you're doing what you can do during this environment, and when things get better, it will be a terrific time is that a correct read of the

situation? >> well, also, as the financial markets change or as the economic conditions change, as ceo, you have to change. you have to pivot. >> would you do layoffs if you had to do it >> look, you have to constantly reshaped the company we've already reshaped part of the company. we'll continue to reshape. you have to look at everything as the market is changing. we just talked about several industries, pcs, ktelecom and banging. but every industry is different. we didn't talk about hotels and hospitality or defense or other areas. every industry has a slightly different characteristic right now. some are buying aggressively some are more subdued. you want to invest more in the products and industries that are doing well you want to pull back in the ones that are not. that's the ebb and flow of how to deal with the crisis. the other thing that you're doing is, you look back a year ago, or two years ago, it's the best years we've ever seen in the history of the company it was an unbelievable motion.

now you're wait a minute, i need to make an adjustment here that is how to deal in a crisis situation. you want to make the right adjustments and then you can go forward. >> let's leave with this it's a somewhat morbid question, but your stock is down big i think it's because of the departure of bret, who you did not want the leave do you actually buy your stock if it's down big off of something you know you couldn't control? >> well, we've already announced we're buying back $10 billion of stock. and we have bought back i believe it's well over a billion so far, and we'll continue to be on the market. and looking to deliver an even greater return for our shareholders >> all right look, you wish bret well for us, because we have been taught. >> thank you a wonderful person and we're just so grateful to have him and so sorry to see him go on. but he is a great entrepreneur, and i know whatever he is going to do next is going to be spectacular. >> okay, marc benioff,

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discouraging full-year forecast for 2023 why? because of some volatile complex and high cost environment that i want to know more about. so is management just being conservative here or do we need to get a little more cautious about the whole packaged goods food base? let's go straight to the source, the chairman and ceo of hormel foods. welcome back to "mad money." >> thank you it's great to be back with you again. >> it's great to see you, jim. i want to start at a high level. the federal reserve, jay powell said today perhaps he could slow down the fight against inflation, meaning slow down the rate hikes it's important because he is winning the war. if the fed were to continue to raise rates, would that help you or hurt you at this point? >> well, you know, jim, that's really hard to say i think for us, as we think about our business, demand for our products continues to be really, really strong. and we are operating in a very

inflationary environment and we have been for some time now. so we're trying to be really, really smart and strategic about how we're approaching customers and the consumer, because we want to make sure that we keep them in our family of brands, keep them in our portfolio so we're not in this business for quarter to quarter this is a long-term story. and so when we're thinking about pricing and inflation, this is more than just about the next quarter. so thinking very strategically and very responsibly about the categories that we're in and the consumers that we're serving >> but are you concerned that just to be able to keep up with inflation, you have to raise the price of your goods to the point that some people are going to be priced out of what they've liked for years and years? >> yeah, i mean, that's always a risk and i think as we look at inflation, there are some things that we can control and then there are some things that are outside of our control labor costs, no secret labor costs have gone up those costs are not coming back

down but we have some input costs when we think about packaging or raw materials. over time, we do expect those to normalize and get to more normal market conditions. and so when we take all of that into account, that's where that responsibility and being strategic about it is. so that we don't price people out of our categories and our brands, because, again, this is a long-term story. and we've been at it for 131 years. it's not the first time we've been through this. so we feel good about our management team's ability to navigate these choppy waters >> so i should not be that concerned that you had 2.4 organic sales growth but negative 9.4 volume growth, which is what i was concerned about when i read through the quarter. >> yeah. you don't need to be concerned about that at all. one of the things that we've done very intentionally over time is we've tried to eliminate the commodity portion of our business so a lot of that is low margin,

fresh pork business. so we've set up our contracts in a way that we're moving further and further away from that business so it's high volume but very low margin and so this is very strategic, and it's the direction that we want to head as an organization. >> when i think matters to our viewers of course is your dividend status and your aristocracy and your kingdom no one needs to be assured of hormel we all have products in our house. we all love them but i do think people need to know how strong your record is on the dividend increase your dividend may not look large because of the yield, but it's because your stock keeps going up >> yeah, this is something that's really important to us, jim. when we think about our capital allocation process, the first thing we talk about is the dividend not just protecting it, but increasing it. so last week we announced our 57th consecutive dividend increase, a 6% increase. we've been paying dividends now

for over 94 years. that's a very enviable track record and so it's something, again, that we take very seriously. and whether you want to call us a dividend aristocrat, a dividend king, they all translate through to the fact that we've got a very strong balance sheet, a very strong capital structure that's going to allow us to continue to pay dividends well into the future >> well, i would be remiss, jim, if i did not mention the fact that i had some figgy pudding spam on the set today that complimented last year when i had the pumpkin spam but the actual numbers of spam are extraordinary. i think people would be quite surprised if you tell them about the amazing growth in a product that frankly, a lot of people thought didn't sell anymore. >> it is incredible the success that we've had in spam so when you think about the fact that we've had three consecutive record years of sales for our overall business

this last year was our second most profitable year in the company's 131-year history, and a big part of that success foundational to our success is spam so we just finished our eighth consecutive year of record sales. eight consecutive years. so that tells you that this brand, this product is still connecting with consumers in a way that's really, really relevant >> well, i tell you, you've answered all my questions. i know that i like your company for all the brands i like your company for the dividend, and i love what you're doing, jim thank you so much for coming on "mad money," jim really appreciate it >> thanks, jim >> that's jim snee, chairman and ceo of hormel. i like what he had to say. i really love that dividend too. "mad money" is back after the break. coming up, no two quarters are exactly alike. cramer checks in with snowflake amid a chilly atmosphere in the cloud space, next.

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♪ as we've been saying, when it comes to earnings, if you're in a software stock, you're guilty until proven innocent, even though it's wrong that's what i'm thinking as we parse through the quarter we just got from snowflake, the analytics play, which sent stock tumbling after hours i think think they delivered a clear top and bottom line. sales up year-over-year. tremendous cash flow the revenue forecast did come in lower than expected and implied a big slowdown for the third quarter. margin guidance weak too a market that really cares about profitability. now i'm wondering if this sp to the extent maybe some weakness something dramatically different sore it the same

i don't know i talked to the chairman and ceo of snowflake welcome back to "mad money." >> great to be on with you. >> i'm a little buffaloed. the quarter was amazing. you're way ahead of where i thought you would be the customers are terrific everyone is using the model. i don't know what to say it looked like next quarter is going to be dramatically weaker from this one. and yet i know you're a conservative man, but is something -- is something wrong that i'm not seeing? >> no, there is nothing -- there is nothing wrong i mean, for a company at this scale to be growing at this rate is literally unprecedented in the history of enterprise software, weapon the cash flow and all the other operating characteristics of the business. things are really good one thing that viewers have to keep in mind, we're running on the consumption model. it's completely data-driven. this is not a wet finger in the

wind, let's see what we come up with, right. so we're very methodical and systemic in the way we do these things you know, there are certainly crosswinds coming across the transom in terms of some of the static that we're feeling in some of the smaller theaters in our business. >> right. >> but on the whole, things are very, very strong. >> but you're a margin guy, and you're guiding to a margin of 1, which is a pretty big decline from what you did this quarter i have to imagine that if you -- that you do not need to have margins that low in order to be able to build a business >> you know, the guidance is the guidance, and you'll have to wait and see how it plays out. we think these numbers are formidable in reasonable context. obviously you know the sentiment in the market is a little stressed out and people react very strongly, and that's understood but we live in the real world. and we just go, you know, one day at a time, one quarter at a time. >> fair enough

but i'd always felt this kind of slowdown was made for frank slootman and made for snowflake. the cloud costs a fortune. people don't realize how much these other guys charge. >> yeah, our model is on the one hand similar to the model when the sunsets, the customer does a contract the contract is iron clad. the company will come due over the term of the contract what's different our customers can accelerate and decelerate during the contract term what that means is this company, 95, 96% of the revenue in the quarter is already known on day one of the quarter and in our world, zero percent is known at the beginning of the quarter that presents its own set of unique challenge. >> at the same time, it's rent the cloud, jim, but there is no analytics. i think it's the opposite.

i think you offer a vertical analytic that is actually unparalleled no one else can get this kind of data >> no. the tailwinds we are experiencing in our business are enormous i mean, if there is any friction in our business in terms of how fast we can go, it's really people's ability to harness the technology and those are the conversations i'm having with new customers these days they're asking help us get there. what do we have to do. the technology is there, but our ability to use it, harness it, you know, is not there so we have to really sort of evolve on mix of capabilities and tools to help customers get there quicker. they want to they're not trying to slow down. they're trying to accelerate but they need us to do help. >> this is a very challenged industry, frank. are you able to help these guys see ways to make money that they themselves can't see maybe they're either hide-bound or don't understand the possibilities?

>> you know, advertising is red hot, because obviously data is the lifeblood of advertising the more granular the data, the more valuable it becomes for advertising purposes so everybody who is not in the familiar gardens of meta and amazon and google and the rest of them, they're building up their data operations massively. that's really their ace in the whole, if you will so there is tremendous demand coming from that part of the world. >> it's frank slootman, you're growing this company and making enough money nobody else comes in and you own the space, which is exactly what i expected it's why snowflake is a great long-term investment frank slootman, ceo and chairman of snowflake, it's always great to see you. >> thanks.

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you made me my money my first house about 25 years ago, var. remember var >> of course i remember var. it was like yesterday. >> you remember that >> i loved it. always loved it. >> we're cool. okay listen, i'm looking, i do a lot of oil and gas stocks and stuff. and i'm looking at wmb. >> don't look, buy come on! >> buy, buy, buy, buy, buy, buy! >> i like et and epd, if you want to go down that path. let's go to josh in arizona. josh >> hey, jim, josh in phoenix a 17-year law enforcement veteran. love watching the show when i can. >> oh, man, thanks for serving and thanks for watching. >> caller: my pleasure, man. i bought a bunch of this stock in 2020 at $4.20 loving the huge dividend can i average up, buy more or sell it due to possible energy issues on the horizon or hold and ride the wave? crestwood equity partners? >> not only have you served our

country well, but man, you a good stock picker? that is one dynamite stock i do not want you do a thing other than ride it let's go to matthew in new york. matthew? >> caller: thank you, jim. first-time caller. investment club memberer adirondack 46er. >> man, a trifecta kind of dangerous. what's up? >> yes, i truly appreciate your passion and your knowledge of history. i really do. >> thank you. >> caller: question on sun run historically you said it's a speculative stock. they just surprised wall street in a big way with a 96 cent beat versus street predicted negative 7 cents. has your opinion changed >> you know, that was good news. i still like face energy better and first solar. but you we're going to spend more time. we're going to have to drill down and make a better decision on that one. thank you very much. brendan in new jersey, brendan >> oh, they, jim jim, how are you >> i am good

how with you, brendan? >> caller: i'm doing great i can, you know, read the stocks and found this one with a lot of insider buying and apparently it's a favorite of george soros. >> what would that be? >> caller: it's biohaven, bhvn >> i don't know about george soros, but this is the stub of what was bought by pfizer. that was that migraine medicine that i popped this morning so i wouldn't have to get a migraine. it's still being run by church and i think you have great horse sense and it's the right thing to buy let's go to sam in wisconsin sam? >> hello, jim. first time caller. just new to the stock market i wanted a take on stock named avxl >> it's so speculative at a time

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♪ all right. so last night my wife lisa and i went to a charity event for radical hope it tries to help young people prevent suicide. unlike in past years, bid winners could not pay in bitcoin. the place erupted with laughter, of course. i watched the winks and the elbow bumps across the room. the contempt was palpable as no one in this group would ever bid for anything in bitcoin any way. me, i was in kind of a bind. a few yearsing i interviewed a crypto evangelist named pop. he dared me to buy a chunk of bitcoin. game on. i was sick of watching other people make money while i wasn't kind of jealous. so i took the plunge at $12,000 bitcoin. i did it with two hands. what happened? the darn thing immediately

starts flying. i'm mesmerized it goes to $40,000 remember, my contract doesn't let me own individual stocks pretty doggone game. i telling my wife about this remarkable call, my challenge to him and how great it was she was actually less than thrilled told me, frankly, was i some sort of maniac, a crazy man? always a joke. and right then she said you're going to sell it tomorrow. and i immediately did. of course, the darn thing then runs to $60,000. i want to choke her. now it's back down to $17,000. and while it would probably still be in the black, that might not have mattered because, you see, pomp, he steered me into block fit bloc blockify

filed for bankruptcy tied up with the ill-fated ftx for ground zero for destruction. i don't want to discuss where my bitcoin position would be now. too many of these crypto institutions are experiencing bank runs all the way to the sam bankman-fried. but there is something important. a couple lessons here. first, i was a fool. i was a fool to follow this fellow pomp in the shadow of the valley of crypto death second, there are greater fools than me taking me out of my position >> hallelujah! >> the whole thing was a pyramid of idiocy. it started to collapse as soon as we ran out of dumb money. you can still make money out of the greater fool theory. this reflects poorly on everything involved, especially the proselytizers who saw no risk these people are still out there jabbering, even as the gains have vanished. i told my pal andrew sorkin that he feels deeply sorry. i feel better already.

crypto and its cousins are creatures of fewer promotion and the promoters revelled in their pure promotion even without fdi insurance covering your deposit. some barely billion in loan. here is what i realized. it was a con the whole thing. an ongoing con one that many still believe in often because they think the dollar is a con and u.s. treasury bonds are cons and the euro is a con. well, fyi, never take any advice from somebody everybody insisted they're a con. because that position is a con artist there are two billers here they took all the gold arguments about how governments constantly print money and devalue their own currencies then they relied on the blockchain the underlying technology which can facilitate transactions much faster than traditional finance. it's much easier to move bitcoin than stocks around well, whoop-de-do.

thae maybe that's not about technology but regulation. if you park your money in the bank, it's still there if i left my money at blockify, probably not there the stocks go to zero, i see it. i know hey, cramer said it goes to zero, all that stuff but let me tell you something. there is no way to get your money back if it turns out that a stock is defective and i accept that. stocks represent pieces of companies, real ownership and the whole industry regulated, not self regulated if you sell things, you'll definitely get your money and that cash won't fade if you leave it in the bank with fdi protection i can't say the same would happen if i health held on the bitcoin, taking it to another place called jp morgan remember we used to say sam bankman-fried was jp morgan. that was stupid. honestly, you know what? i would have done better to leave my money in draftkings here is the bottom line. crypto enthusiasts love to argument that the u.s. debt is a con, the euro is a con, the

treasuries are con right now crypto is a con that's collapsing on itself that's worse than the promoters that used to get your dollars and win with them while you probably lost everything i like to say there is always a bull market somewhere. i programs to try to find it right here on "mad money." i'm jim cramer i'll see you tomorrow. of the wot successful consumer products, joins the tank. the key to this game is buzz building and distribution -- two areas that i can bring to bear better than anybody else here. healthy food is a human right. you're coming across as so scattered. -and what are your total sales? -$1,000. we're at a crossroads here. there's a real demand for this. -i'm gonna make you an offer. -whoo! robert has to give you that deal because he doesn't have the distribution network to help you. rohan, you just pissed me off. who's ready to make a smokin' deal? you'd be really annoying to work with. -i'm not annoying. -i find you a little annoying. but i'm still here!