a story that i think is as good bonawyn. >> i do think it's eventually this volatility will subside, but in the meantime, i'm looking for a place to hide out. >> stephen and pete materials. >> i'm up 60%. i should probably be selling it. i bought more today. >> all right. thanks for watching folks. have a great weekend. mad money with jim cramer starts right now. >> my mission is simple to. >> make you money. i'm here to level the playing field for all investors. there's always a bull. >> market somewhere and i promise to help. >> you find it. mad money. >> starts now. hey i'm cramer. welcome to mad money. welcome to cramerica. other people make friends. i'm just trying to make you a little money. my job is not just to entertain, but to educate, to teach you. so call me. >> at one. >> 873 cnbc or tweet me jimcramer. i want you to listen to me. breathe in breathe out slowly like a minute. and don't take any action until you're certain that you can handle any

amount of pain. if it goes against you. >> house of pain. >> if you think you can cope then use the craziness that is happening in this. stock market to start a position or to put money in an index. >> fund that mirrors. >> the s&p 500, because i think you'll do fine. but if you can't take the pain, don't even think about it. this market is way too volatile and way too fragile. you're almost guaranteed to get hurt here, at least short term. so if you lack the mental fortitude, you'll end up buying high and selling low before you watch the market bounce right back, as it did today, with the averages opening decently, then just getting hammered and then coming right back up the dow finishing up 220 points. that's the advancing 0.55%. and the nasdaq, after being so hideous i could barely look at it gaining 0.7%. how can markets be so out of control. >> and they are. >> well because frankly, we are in a very emotional market. it's a market that's torn between buyers who see terrific opportunities because the

market's down. and the walmart white. >> house. >> where the president keeps trying to give you every day lower prices on stocks almost every time he talks. i wish i were kidding. this morning we got this nonfarm payroll report from the labor department. and frankly, it was a perfect set of figures for the bulls decent job growth, not a lot of inflation. that's a great setup for investors who suddenly petrified that we're going to head into a recession, thanks to president trump's mercurial attitude towards implementing his own agenda. but once the market opens, we hear that the president wants to put on new tariffs. i don't even know on who. and that's going to happen today. then some moronic money manager decides to sell billions of dollars worth of tech stocks and economically sensitive stocks at once while taking those proceeds and simultaneously using them to buy recession proof names. that's what you saw today. the companies that make toothpaste uncrustables goldfish. it's the kind of colossally stupid move that distorts the entire market and misleads everyone who's watching the ticker, not me. because i've done these trades, i've done these programs, and i saw it coming. nothing kills

confidence, though, like the whippy nature of these trades combined with the fear of presidential pain. so you get something like the fabled cascade of selling that almost always marks a short term bottom. which is why i say breathe. because if you can't, this will be a total market for you. toto. as in, turn off the oxygen. and with that little explainer, why don't we see what's lurking in our game plan for next week? first, remember we are in a clubber lang market. no dispute about that, right? ally rocky three where the prediction is pain and pain gets dispensed regularly, especially even on the weekend. nothing stops, so we should expect to come in on monday with a whole new set of parameters about trade policy. and that's a big reason why we're seeing such violent repositionings on fridays. they're afraid. the accounts are afraid. individual earnings have been de-emphasized by the president's arbitrary dispensing of tariffs and, of course, suspending of tariffs with each each waffle weave that we see people leaving this market because i believe the

stock market is still the greatest engine of wealth creation in history. but i often feel at cross-purposes with the president now, even though i'm generally pro tariff because our trading partners never play fair. but in the end, i'm a process guy. i like a planned rollout of tariffs, while wall street never likes tariffs. what it really hates, though, is uncertainty. it hates that more than tariffs. in this environment, individuals feel like individual stocks. they feel like playthings, playthings of a white house that feels at war with itself. they're not playthings though, and you can't think of them that way, or else you're going to miss some tremendous opportunities. for example, on monday, oracle is going to report and it will do it after the close. i bet they're going to have some really positive things to say. now oracle, a very good software company, has become a great data center company, which is terrific. until we learned that some chinese outfit could create high quality ai models using very much less hardware. that's a simplistic way to put it. but let's just be honest, the ai stocks have never traded the same since china revealed its

deep sea source of, let's just say, of incredibly fast but much less expensive ai. does it make sense that that's the case? no, it just doesn't. but it certainly hurt the valuations of the semiconductor stocks. last night, broadcom reported an amazing quarter. its stock rewarded after the close. then it got dragged down by that tech sell program i just mentioned before bouncing right back when it was that ridiculous contrived program was over and it finished the day up more than 8%. but were you in there from the beginning to the end? many people probably left at midday. this kind of action has become the norm. i expect oracle to have almost as good a quarter as broadcom and then do the same thing. we've got some retailers reporting on tuesday morning. i'm keying on dick's sporting goods which is pulling away from the others in the sports category. i think they'll deliver very strong set of numbers. and it jumps like a pole vaulter when that when you get that kind of number. so it might be worth being in wednesday we get another chance to throw the market under the bus when we see the consumer price index number. if the cpi runs hot, i'm sure the numbers from a stock like oracle simply

won't matter at all. i'll tell you this if we get a soft cpi and a soft ppi on thursday, the drumbeat of a rate cut will grow so loud, so loud it might even overshadow the pain forecast for the white house. with cooler inflation readings, the fed has no reason not to cut. the most important report of the week comes wednesday after the close, and that's when adobe reports it's got to break the spell of undeserved negativity surrounding its stock. i bet ceo shantanu narayen will deliver something that makes the stock worth owning into the print, dollar general reports thursday morning. and this one's been all over the map lately. near the bottom of it. i think this company and dollar tree have become the odd man out, as walmart has hammered prices so low that these guys can't compete dollar stores. they i don't know. they seem to be at the mercy of the big suppliers, not walmart. i am not a buyer of dollar general or dollar tree. one stock i am a buyer of, though, is costco, which reported excellent numbers last night and still got obliterated.

wait until tuesday and then buy some. all the sellers will probably be done. it's a long standing position for my travel trust. i actually want to buy more. i haven't want to do that in a very long time after the close. and by the way, it did not miss earnings. that's just wrong. those are people who don't know how to read costco's report i do. after the close, we hear from ulta beauty and the new ceo, kecia steelman, has to explain how ulta remains the most relevant reasonably priced cosmetics chain. prices have to be kept down to beat all the discounters, whether we're trying to get a bigger slice of the makeup pie, cosmetics have become the biggest battleground in the entire store, and ulta's got to win them back from amazon. finally, friday we get the michigan consumer sentiment number. i didn't focus on this number much at all under president biden because biden was very predictable, so it was easy to make plans. sure, wall street hated many of biden's policies, especially on antitrust, but he rarely took us by surprise. trump surprises us every day. you see, that matters because we're a consumer driven economy, people. if optimism

rules, there are some otherwise very risky stocks that are just quite simply worth buying. but if the pessimists are in charge, sell, sell well, then all sorts of money managers will dump their economically sensitive stocks only to watch them power up once they're done, like that moron manager did earlier today. wrecking midday's market again, the markets can handle any amount of negativity. what they can't handle is uncertainty. the bottom line? look, it's one of the toughest markets i've seen in years because if your portfolio is quarterback, you have no defenders and you're getting sacked or being bought from the blind side every time. and let me tell you something, all sides are not blind sides. so if you want to buy a stock, make sure not to buy it all at once. buy slowly because the stock you purchase might be down five points by the time you get your report. irvin. louisiana. earth. >> hello. >> how are you, jim? >> how are you doing, buddy? >> doing all right. >> good. anyway, my. question is about. >> dow chemicals. i sold some of

my. >> stock last. >> week and. >> i need something. >> to invest. >> my profits into. >> and i've. >> had dow. >> chemicals on. >> my. >> mind since december. >> what's your thinking. >> on this? >> well, okay. so dow is trading with all the other chemicals as if they are just calls on china turning around. it's a wrong thing. but that's i got to tell you straight, that's what it's trading on. and therefore that means it's not a stock you should own right now. and the yield might not protect you, as people thought at five and 6%. andrew in washington. andrew. >> hey, jim. with strong travel demand, do you. >> think delta. >> airlines could be a buy? >> i do prefer united to delta. the group is really under a lot of pressure right now, but i think that they're going to have a very strong summer. i would hold on. and now let's go to sam in pennsylvania. sam. >> jim, how are you? >> i'm good. sam, how about you? good. >> i'm calling. >> today because. >> i am becoming. more concerned. >> about nike. >> you know, jim.

>> we value. >> stocks on their future cash flow. and this is. exactly what. >> i fear. >> nike is hurting. >> by putting. >> out these. >> low quality products. you see, as a consumer, we're not going to make a. >> repeat purchase if the types that we're buying for the. >> same price. >> are falling apart twice as fast. >> so i really need. >> the new. >> ceo at nike to hear. >> me. >> when i say. >> focus on the quality. >> of the product. >> and. >> the engagement. >> will come. >> okay, so sam, let me tell you how i feel about it. i think that mr. hill is doing exactly as you say. i also think that the stock looks very expensive, but maybe they're going to have an earnings deceleration. if i own nike, i would certainly hold it if the stock would have dropped back even to the to the low 70s. i myself might pick some up for my travel trust. so i think that elliott hill is making it work. i think he's doing a good job now. okay, listen to me. if you can handle pain, then i'm giving you my blessing to buy stocks. but you got to do it slowly. slowly. don't do it fast. you might get whipsawed here on mad money tonight. are you getting all you can eat buffet with the pullback in restaurant stocks right now,

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>> when the market's going up, everybody wants to wait for a pullback to buy stocks at a better price. but once stocks start rolling over, we get terrified and we can't bring ourselves to pull the trigger. lately we've experienced a wholesale liquidation. i think there's some great buying opportunities out there. you just need to know how to find them. that's why tonight i want to walk you through some of my favorite casual dining stocks, because we've had many of their ceos on the show giving us real insight into the business. take brinker, the parent company of chili's and maggiano's. we had ceo kevin hochman on the show at the end of january, right after brinker reported one of the best quarters i've ever seen. chili's had 31% same store sales growth, and the whole company earned $2.80 per share, nearly a full dollar ahead of the estimates. in response, the stock shot up more than 16% in a single day, and then it kept running all the way from 154 to 192 in early february. since then, though, brinker has pulled back hard, 141 down substantially from where it was trading before the quarter. so how the heck does

the stock collapse like this? in a little over a month after reporting spectacular quarter? now some of it's pure profit taking. at the peak, brinker was up a mind boggling 315% over the previous 12 months. now, some of its valuation, some of the company, some of that's companies keep talking about how they had softer traffic in early february. but that was bad weather. some of its tariff worries weighing on consumer sentiment. given the scale of the decline here we've got assets. brinker worth buying into weakness. now, look, i've been a fan of this one for ages. i think the basic story hasn't changed at all. brinker has been able to put up great numbers because it offers customers an incredible value proposition. at chili's, you can get an appetizer, endless endless chips and salsa, endless soft drinks, and a burger, all for $10.99. need to wash it down? well, try a $6 margarita of the month. this month it's lemon drop. and by the way, they use top shelf. they use top shelf to healing this. this strategy has clearly been resonating with customers across all income levels. chili's may be the only place where you can see your average family of five eating next to someone wearing brioni. now, how do i know that i'm the guy wearing the brioni? plus, when i

spoke to ceo kevin hochman at the end of january, he was adamant that the last quarter was no fluke. he explained that his team has been doing a great job of increasing the cultural relevance of chili's, with excellent ad placement. a lot of tiktok that's not even factoring in maggiano's, which seems to be kind of an afterthought for investors, but not for kevin hochman. the typical maggiano's location. does this extend its outstanding $10 million in average unit volume, and even though it only has 50 locations, does that mean it's got a ton of room to expand? plus, brinker stock is a heck of a lot cheaper than it was 4 or 5 weeks ago. next up is texas roadhouse tex rh stock. i like so much that we decided to buy some for the travel trust. two weeks ago, these guys reported what i thought was a darn good quarter with better than expected same store sales, up 7.7% alongside a healthy earnings beat. sure, not as crazy as the results from brinker, absolutely. but texas roadhouse is a much more mature company. it just happens to be a real steady operator with a lot of room to grow. also, unlike brinker, texas roadhouse has held up surprisingly well, with the stock down only a few bucks from early february, even as it's had a tough week and a tough day. at one point it was down six and a half dollars

today. that said, i like this one for the same reason i like brinker. texas roadhouse offers what i call relative value. it may be a steakhouse, but it's a bargain versus the competition. where else can you get an eight ounce steak with two sides for $9.99 on wild west wednesdays, $5 margaritas, and of course, the fresh rolls with cinnamon butter. oh my god, they come on the table. it's just i can't stop eating when i go to this place. when we spoke to ceo jerry morgan just two weeks ago, he acknowledged that while the beginning of february was a bit choppy, recent trends were encouraging. but record valentine's day plus texas roadhouse recently opened up their 750th systemwide location. they plan to open 30 restaurants this year across their three brands. there's a lot of room to expand. it doesn't hurt that the company is buying back stock hand over fist. last year they repurchased $80 million worth of shares, and they just announced a new $500 million buyback authorization alongside the latest quarter. even though the stock hasn't been hit hard. well, somewhat. it's been hit somewhat hard. it's still down nearly 30 points from its november highs. i think it's a proven winner that can return to

those levels, which is why we've been buying for the tribal trust, and we want to buy a heck of a lot more. next up is cracker barrel, another one i'm really interested in. this is a stock that's fallen drastically over the past few weeks. but that's not without reason either, with management blaming not just the weather, but also macroeconomic uncertainty as a reason for some of the challenges in early february. that's suboptimal. so what's their like about it then? how about the stellar set of numbers that the company just reported yesterday morning with much better than expected same store sales growth, macro uncertainty already baked into cracker barrel's full year forecast at this point, which they raised, by the way. while management admitted that february got off to a challenging start, they said the last two weeks have seen meaningful improvement. i like that. not too surprising when you remember that cracker barrel also represents a stellar value proposition. like the other two breakfast starting at 7.99 every day a week. by the way, even with the eggs, they've kept the price low. dining offer. there's an 8.99 dining issue, but also they got to be in that loyalty club if you really want the bargains. trust me, i pay much more for their country. fried steak with sawmill gravy. now cracker

barrel is still very much a work in progress, something that ceo julie masino is quite candid about. on the conference call, she explained that this year is still an investment year before, quote, financial results will significantly improve by the second half of fiscal 2026 and further accelerate into fiscal 2027. end quote. now what are the stock's been a hard hit down more than 33% from its highs at the end of january, despite yesterday's 7% gain. now we had julie on the show and i point blank asked her if we can count on cracker barrel to be a refuge from all the craziness when you go to the stores, not to stock. she explained how the last two weeks have gone, mentioning that early february was only so bad because the weather was truly awful. they had to shut down some locations in louisiana because it was snowing. for heaven's sake, come on, that's not a common occurrence at this point. the stock's almost pulled back to where it was trading when i started recommending it last summer a u-turn. i think cracker barrel is a buy. remember though, this is a turnaround story, which makes it a lot more risky than either brinker or texas roadhouse. but the bottom line when you look at these three casual dining plays, their stocks are big from their highs. i think they're absolutely worth buying, even if the economy is truly headed for

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>> last thursday, we got a call from don in tennessee who wanted to know what the heck was happening with powell industries. it's one of the industrials i recommended last august, in part because it had transformed itself into more of a data center play. now, here's the stock that rallied 113% from when i pounded on the table last summer, though it's right through its highs in mid november. but since then it's given back all of its gains and then some. buy buy buy sell sell sell. in fact the stock's now down more than $8 versus where versus where it was trading when i first mentioned it on air. what a turn of fate. when don asked me about it last week he couldn't figure out the decline. powell's got strong fundamentals, a low valuation, positive analyst coverage and strong earnings coverage. so why on earth has the stock become such a dog? so i promised to do some homework and get back to him. if you don't remember, powell industries is an old line industrial that makes its custom engineered equipment to control electricity. now, in the old days, their customers were

mainly oil and gas companies, but they had great niche there. but lately they've become a supplier of choice for any business that needs mission critical electrical infrastructu of course, that very much includes the data center where all the ai action takes place. and that's really the crux of the story. powell put up incredible gains when the data center was hot, and now it's racking up big losses because nobody wants anything connected to the business at the moment. and yet the actual business has been good. it's the stock that's gone crazy. so powell industries reported two quarters in november and february that were poorly received, but both seem pretty decent to me. not perfect, but good enough. they had healthy backlog, excellent earnings. now, some of the forward looking metrics looked solid in this most recent quarter, two new orders were $269 million, which was up slightly from the previous quarter. they should have been up significantly, though, and powell's backlog held firm at 1.3 billion. i would have liked to see much bigger, but it's been that same level for the past three quarters. now, this is important because it shows you that these guys aren't just feasting on their old backlog, but it's not

growing. they're bringing in plenty of new business, too, and that will turn into revenue in the future. but again, not enough new business. i'm just telling you how it is right now. on the latest conference call, ceo brett cope said that the company saw broad strength in its orders, supported by an award from a large liquefied natural gas project. overall, he said the company's finding success in the industrial utility and commercial markets sounds pretty good right now. if you only judge powell industries by the fundamentals, it's very hard to figure out why the stock has become such a dog. sure, their sales and earnings growth has slowed from last year's insanely high levels, but that's just the law of large numbers at work. this is still an industrial company with mid-twenties revenue growth and mid 40s earnings growth. ordinarily, that would make for a pretty darn attractive story, but this is not an ordinary moment, people. it's been really interesting to watch powell stocks since the calendar flipped to 2025. it actually went on a huge run in mid-january, climbing quickly from around $230 to nearly $330 in a blistering six day rally. at one point. that was right after softbank, oracle and openai announced their $500

billion stargate ai data center investment project at the white house. like i said, when the data center is hot, this thing was unstoppable. however, you live by the data center sword, you die by the data center sword. that january rally was followed almost immediately by a sickening 16% decline on january 27th. do you know that that day is now known as on wall street, at least as deep sikh? monday, when the ai data center stocks just collapsed after the release of a purportedly low cost chinese ai model that seemed to perform just as well as the us competition while using far less hardware. since then, pal stock has become. >> a house of pain. >> of course, pal is not alone here. everything connected with the data center theme, as i said at the top of the show, has been taken to the woodshed, including the old line industrial plays that looked like they had made it last year, like last year. i think this is now overdone, but many think that the build up was overdone and we are now past our due date if we own these stocks. same goes for the other data

center. build out derivatives like the heating, ventilation, air conditioning plays that sell cooling equipment to keep these warehouses full of servers from overheating. hey, you know, this week we had carrier global on the show. what a great company. that stock is down 19% from its october highs. vertiv, which sells more specialized climate control equipment specifically for data centers, has fallen a pal like 45% from its highs in late january. it's now important to own industrials that have no exposure to the data center. basically, even old line industrials like powell industries have become speculative data center stocks as they caught fire last year, their speculative hear that they were trading on the prospects of this theme, even as they still had great fundamentals away from the theme. once that theme got called into question by deep sea, many of your fellow shareholders decided to head for the hills. doesn't matter. by the way, deep six initial numbers appear to have been extremely misleading. it doesn't even matter that the tech titans have announced huge capital expenditure budgets for 2025. they haven't really reined in their data center spending at all. but in the end, stocks like powell industries were propelled higher by momentum traders who like them simply because they were going higher. once the data

center story got called into question, these people sold en masse and crushed the share price. now they're sitting on the sidelines and they've still, let's say they're trying to wait for some clarity. look, look at nvidia reported genuinely good quarterly results last week. yet the stock just keeps getting pulverized. it had still one more terrible week that just ended, thank heavens. now when you take a closer look at powell industries, i think this one's got a lot going for it. i see it only as a broken stock, not a broken company. after its recent sell off, the darn thing trades at less than 12 times this year's earnings estimate. these levels, i believe you got to hold your nose and buy. i'm not alone. on wednesday, analysts at the boutique research firm roth capital partners, one of the few firms that cover the stock, published a bullish note after meeting with management. as they see it. business is strong and the stock's ridiculously cheap. so to don and tennessee, i simply have to say that there doesn't seem to be much wrong with powell industries at all, aside from the fact that it's a data center play in a market that can't make up its mind about the group. the stock's been gutted like every i derivative name, and it is one of the worst performers in the market. but the bottom line i

believe in this business. so i urge you to have some conviction and fight the trend. while it might feel scary to step in front of all the selling and powell industries and the other data center plays, i think this is a case where you can use the widespread sense of panic to pick up shares in a high quality industrial on the cheap. nevertheless, if the negative drumbeat about the data center keeps up, you may have to own it for some time until people realize that this company is much more than a data center play. so after all the momentum players are washed out, it can finally mount a significant rally. rich in texas. rich. >> hey jim. >> thanks for taking. >> my call. >> i've just got to wonder, have people. >> completely given up on fundamentals with. >> expanding profits. >> and revenues. >> and increased demand and a p. >> e of. >> seven and a. >> forward. >> p e of five. how are we not buying united. >> airlines to $140? >> look, i am a buyer. i am a buyer of united airlines. i know it's down 15%, but it became again a momentum stock. i think you're right. i think it's

cheap. the travel thesis is strong. if i had to pick up united airlines, i'd buy some here, then wait till around 70 and buy the rest. that's what i've been doing for the travel trust. when i see stocks just like this, how about we go to kyle in illinois? kyle. >> thanks for having me on the show, brother. >> i will keep it. >> quick for you. >> sure. >> beacon roofing supply, there's a lot of chatter obviously right now. >> what are. >> your thoughts. you're going to get a bid. it's going to take they're going to have to accept. i believe they will have to accept the offer from from brad. they have from reuben. i'm sorry. they have to accept the offer. the hostile takeover that we're seeing right now. and if they don't do it, i think they're going to regret it because this the takeover is at a higher power price. it's qcso that is doing the buying. and i think you ought to buy this stock and take advantage of what i think is going to be a high bid price. all right. there's widespread fear right now around the data center thesis. but if you believe in it like i do, then i think you could buy it.

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pop. it closed four bucks off that army truck, and we're going to put in a company that's just a staple of any of any portfolio. we're going to put in bristol-myers. okay, get some yield, get some drug. i'll feel much better because you have tech. nvidia is obviously tech. i could have thrown that away. but you've got the gtc conference coming up. you got fin, you have fin again. that's why i say there's overlap. but i can't just totally blew it. no i am going to do this. never mind. because then blue owl is also financial. we can't have all these fins we need. we need a some sort of i want you know, what i want to put in here. i want to put in. enterprise product partners did some work on it today. it's got a good yield. near top oil service. it's pipeline. it just strikes me as something that could balance out some of these other stocks. blue owl out enterprise partners partners in. so i had to do some. it was like a major

surgery. there was nothing i could do. i couldn't just, you know, i couldn't handle an outpatient basis. and not only that, i obviously had to use anesthesia. let's go to james in north carolina. james. >> good afternoon, sir. how are you? >> i am doing well. how about you? >> well, all things considered, i'm okay. the world is in the balance. but we'll see. >> all right, so nothing's perfect. let's go to work. >> sure. >> my five stocks are across financials, infrastructure and consumer. i got blackrock i got mastec i got autodesk i got unilever and i got local regional premium supermarket chain ingles where i live in north carolina, which has a tight margin sensitive to shocks that i use as a. barometer because when things are good it goes up. when things are bad, it goes down. and it's been trending down since december 22nd. well. >> you know what? i'm going to take your word for that one. i mean, we'll consider that, put that in the supermarket category, and i want to do some work on that. by the way, it sounded very interesting. i like your depiction of it. we got the infrastructure blackrock financials. this stock has been a dog for me candidly for my

charitable trust. and we buy it. why do we buy it. because it's the best run fin with no exposure to credit. so i'm stable little they've done since new infrastructure up. there's some exposure to credit but i'm okay with it. unilever is actually not a great company. we're going to have to get rid of that. we're going to own we're going to put in a drug company right here. i'm stuck on bristol-myers. we're going to put bristol-myers in there. autodesk is a tech. so we have tech. we have a fin. we got infra, we got supermarket. and well we're got a drug company because unilever is not that well run these days. wow. this is hard. now you know what we can do. let's go clear across the country. let's go to gregory in california. gregory. >> well. >> you just. >> assume that. >> i'm in california. but you'd be right. i am in california. i'm driving. right now up the. five freeway from la. to the. bay area. jim, how. >> is your friday? >> what what exit are you right now? >> okay. being absolutely. >> honest. i'm in. >> patterson, california, and.

>> i just stopped at the dutch brothers and i had. >> myself a coca-cola. >> in my hand. >> that's what i want to hear. that that happened to be a place that i slept in when i was living in my car. i just want to see with you the same address. let's go to work. >> jim, you inspire me. to practice what i preach because i know you do, at. least to the. >> best of. >> our ability. >> so. >> all right, with that. in mind. >> as i head. >> up to the bay. >> area and my brand new tesla. >> which is. >> the first of. >> my. >> five stocks, the full. self-driving mode, which is extraordinary. >> which wouldn't exist. without the chip manufacturing equipment. >> provided by lam research. >> jim. >> all right. >> annoyingly, i have to drive an. >> hour or more outside. >> of. >> la or. >> the bay. >> area. >> in. >> order to get my. >> data. >> or in this case, my kokomo. >> of course, this is good, and this is a good time right there to give us the stocks. >> dutch brothers. >> tesla, let's go to work. okay. the stocks for my

diversified. >> oh dutch bonds okay. >> go ahead i'm ready. t-mobile okay. >> t-mobile. >> bristol myers. bristol. myers. >> and i owe you one more. >> yeah. go ahead. i need all five. all five? >> yes. >> so t-mobile. >> dutch brothers, lam research, bristol myers. >> tesla. >> perfect. now we can really go to work. this is great. we tighten it up. it's just so great. okay, bristol myers i've been using it all evening, so i can't tell. i can't tell now to get rid of it. lam research is my absolute favorite for the semiconductor capital equipment by t-mobile. it hasn't missed a quarter in years that mike siebert doing a good job, the dutch bros. yeah, he just visited. that stock's down 20 quick points. we want to do some buying there. and tesla. so we've got a car tech company car tech haha. then we've got we've

got well let's just call it a restaurant. you know for ease. we've got telco. we have semiconductor capital equipment and we have drug. that's perfect diversification. and we oh i think he drove from la to san francisco in the time that that call occurred. and therefore, because of that long cross california and questionnaire, we're going to have to stop. but i want to thank all our callers. and the money is back after this. >> coming up cramer takes your calls and the sky's the limit. it's a fast fire lightning roun. next don't miss a members only event. >> we make sure that club members get the access they need to make more informed decisions. >> join the cnbc investing club >> join the cnbc investing club to access jim's monthly mee only the servicenow platform connects every corner of your business, putting ai to work for people. - hr? - yeah. - it? - yeah. - r&d? - yup. omg? uh... oh, i see. uh... yeah. that's the department i work in.

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>> it is time. it's time for the lightning. round one victim stocks to buy by myself and my staff. you play the sound and then the lightning round is over. are you ready, ski daddy? for the lightning round. i'm going to start with tom in wisconsin. tony in wisconsin. tony. >> hey, jim. >> a big hater from. >> northern wisconsin. wow. >> thanks for taking my call there. absolutely. >> thanks for all the great advice. >> over the years. >> oh, thank you so much. it's been so hard lately. it really makes me feel great that you said that. thank you. thank you very much. >> well. >> i've been a long term investor. and it takes a lot more to scare me than this. >> i like that. >> that's the right attitude. that's ken langone attitude. congratulations. let's go to work. >> okay. >> about 20. >> years ago, i. >> took a small position. >> in. >> a stock. >> called fiserv. >> good wisconsin based company. they've done me right. >> for over. 20 years. >> wondering what you think. >> about them.

>> moving forward. >> i think they're one of the greatest fintechs. you know, everyone wanted to go into the really fancy new fintechs. you stick with the one that you have, you are doing really well. and thank you for the kind words. they mean a lot to me. i need to go to bob in illinois. bob. >> hello, jim. bob a while ago you suggested sempra electric utility. electric, whatever. i've watched some. and about. a month later, all of a sudden it took a huge jump from like the high. >> 80s to the. >> tell you the truth, bob, they did not do a good job. it was a bad quarter. it is very upsetting to me. i've spoken to jeff martin several times, the ceo, but there were several things that were definite misses. it does deserve to trade lower. it yields almost 4%. i still can't tell you that we have to see another quarter because it was that jarring. i wish i didn't have to say that, but sempra did not deliver. and that's just plain and simple. i need to go to nick in new

jersey. nick. >> booyah! jimmy cooks. hope all is. >> well, man. >> oh, good. how about you? congrats on resigning bon. >> and. >> yes zacks. >> the man. >> that i wanted to come here on the show i love that guy. well let's go to work right. >> yeah absolutely. >> so this. >> question comes to you courtesy of graph. >> so jim rigetti computing rtai. >> has been a wild ride. >> lately in the quantum. >> computing space, with. >> the stock surging over 1,600%. >> in the past year. >> despite declining revenues. do you think this is a speculative bubble? >> i think it's a meme stock. it's a meme stock, and therefore it's a battle between the legs of the shorts. i don't know who wins in the end, but it is a meme stock. it is not. it is not trading on the fundamentals, which are frankly paltry. let's go to alex in pennsylvania. alex. >> jim. >> great to speak with you. >> question to you. yeah. and what. >> do you think. >> of. recursion pharmacy now that it's dropped back down

again? >> and if you had to choose. between netflix and disney to start a position now, which would you choose? >> well, i'll tell you, i am. i'm reticent to put to really to pull the trigger on recursion because when they came on it was looked at a good level, and since then it's just been disastrous. we're going to have to hold off. i got to meet them face to face and see what's going on. let's go to greg in illinois. greg? >> yes. >> how you doing, jim? >> i am doing well. greg, what's happening with you? >> nothing exciting except some bad weather in chicago. >> bad weather in chicago. i'm going to note that over there, guys. okay, but bad weather, that's portillo's. we don't want to buy the stock of portillo's then. okay, so how can i help you, though? >> i want to find. >> out. >> about one oak. see what you think of it today. >> i have to tell you, i think one oak may be the best run pipeline company in the country. and i think you should own it. that is by. oh, no. oh, no. enbridge is good too. don't want to hurt people's feelings. let's

go to jerry in missouri. jerry. >> hey, jim. thanks for. >> taking my call. >> of course. jerry. what's happening? >> jim. >> i know you don't. >> like accounting. >> irregularities. >> but you haven't said. >> that about this company lately. >> in fact. >> you kind of congratulated them on not being delisted. is it time to start building a position in supermicro? >> they're still remedies that are needed until all the remedies happen. i am not going to approve it. in the meantime, that industry has become very cutthroat. look at hpe today. if you want to know the winner in that space, it's going to be michael dell. and i do say at this level that it would be a good idea to buy michael dell's company. it is so low. it sells at nine times earnings. and michael dell is fantastic at what he does. and also probably one of the most charitable people i've ever met. let's go to alex in pennsylvania. alex. >> hey, jim. >> thanks for. >> taking my call. i'm of course. >> calling in. >> about a. >> real estate investment. trust that i've been tracking for a little over a year and a half now, and i'm looking to increase

my position. it's farmland partners incorporated, ticker spy novels. >> novel idea. i kind of like the idea as a spec, because we know that we don't have enough farmland. so i think, you know what? i'm going to bless it. i'm going to bless it. i've thought a lot about since since agco, which was an amazing, amazing bottom call that we got from agco. we had them on recently. let's go to gary in kansas. gary. >> hey jim. >> i want to say bless you for the help that you give. >> to the. >> individual investor like me. i've been a long time watcher. >> and a first time caller. >> thank you. >> i want your opinion on. >> is an under the radar tech. >> company that. >> meets your. >> standard of showing a recent quarter over quarter growth and is profitable. they also pay a dividend to 3%. and appear to be reasonably. >> priced. >> with a p e of 16. the stock symbol is. >> s t x. seagate technology. >> all right. seagate okay. now

this is a very cheap stock but a cheap for a reason. it's because the business is very cut throat. and i suggest that if you wanted to go in this business, you wanted to go into storage. i am going to send you honestly to broadcom. i'd rather see them. they got storage too. and that ladies and gentlemen is the conclusion of the lightning round. >> the lightning round is sponsored by charles schwab. opportunities don't stop when the market. >> day. >> ends. >> so neither do we. schwab gives. >> you round. >> the clock access to over 800 of the most popular stocks and etfs, plus a wide variety of futures markets, all with 24 hour support from trading. specialists who understand the ins and outs of 24 hour trading. no matter the hour, you can no matter the hour, you can trade brilliantly. with ♪(voya)♪ there are some things

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out of software, stocks, semiconductors, artificial intelligence, as well as the financials and into the drugs and the health care and the consumer packaged goods. the thought behind a program like this is simple. the manager believes that we're heading into a severe slowdown, so he wants to dump the stocks that need a strong economy and swap into stocks that do fine in a recession. and he wanted to do it in minutes. and you can't really do that while impacting the stocks in a ridiculous way. so billions of dollars are pulled out of one basket with economic exposure and placed through another basket that allegedly has no economic exposure. and it's total lunacy, people, which is why the results of these moves were repealed as the day went on. you see, stocks can't handle the breakneck speed at which these programs are executed, and the broker working the program should have known that should have known better. what a fool. the techies and the retailers simply couldn't absorb all the selling at once. these stocks are part of a hand-picked basket, and they're large cap. nvidia, microsoft, servicenow, jpmorgan. just because they're large capitalization doesn't mean they would be able to handle the selling pressure. they will in the face of

concentrated selling some things. same thing, by the way, with the biotech stocks like merck, united healthcare, bristol-myers, all recession proof, they flew up in an insane fashion, wildly distorting the values. second, i've executed these kinds of programs. i know how this is done. whoever did this was a rank amateur. anyone with half a brain knows that you can't swing stocks around like this without causing big swings in their prices. you always get a bad deal, especially on a friday where there are fewer players just pushing. hidden by the secrecy of wall street. these clowns who executed the program will never be outed, but boy did they ever screw up. finally, it's important to not just stand there and gape and do nothing. you must always have a list ready in an emergency. stocks that you want to buy or sell when something moronic like this happens. for the investing club, we issued two bulletins to club members urging them to take action. but some banks, some text on weakness urged people to buy the stocks, plus the lagging retailers and restaurants. we were restricted in the ones that we wanted to buy. club members weren't hey, by the way, we also sold shares in bristol-myers. why? because it was up ridiculously because of the program buying. i couldn't

resist the spike. it was right. now, the vast majority of people who are watching this action midmorning thought that there was something actually going on, something fundamental behind the swings. but in reality, we were just watching the poor execution of a stupid trade that some manager thought was clever to a fault. so rather than taking the action to heart, what should you have done? you had to buy the stocks of companies that just reported excellent numbers when they were tumbling this morning. last night we got incredible results from broadcom, the semiconductor and software company. excellent exposure to i. this is one of the best quarters of the year. at one point it was up 16 points. then it pushed down by the stupid program. and then it started rebounding. later in the day it finished up 15 bucks. if you bought it. when the program climaxed, you made a killing. let me give you another gap. remember we had richard dickson on the show last night. amazing set of numbers across the board. it was a called shot gap. finished the day up nearly 19%, but at one point this morning it was up only half of that because of the program. fabulous opportunity. i have total contempt for people who buy or sell once, distorting the whole market. like this. this isn't the 90s where there was all

sorts of liquidity. this is 2025 and you're getting you're going to move stocks like this and get horrendous reports. shame on the bozos. the next time something like this happens, don't panic. take advantage of these clowns by taking the other side of the trade, but only if you're ready to move. like i said, there's always a bull market somewhere. always a bull market somewhere. i promise you, i'll find for motivational guru gary shawkey, the heat is on. you can accomplish anything when you walk through this fire. narrator: but shawkey's much more than a firewalking showstopper. he's a relentless con man selling imaginary products while raking his victims over the coals to steal millions. i'm making five figures a week. i cashed a 20-some-thousand-dollar check the other day. narrator: but when shawkey hatches a scheme full of shadowy government contracts and million-dollar paydays, he sets sail for murder. his motivation was pure greed. absolute greed.