mr. cramer. >> booyah, dane. >> caller: from the great city and state of gulf, florida >> go ahead. >> caller: i first want to you it for consistently providing us investors, especially our youth the guidance and insight needed to diversify our portfolios. >> young people are buying stocks again and they're watching the show and i love it. what's up? >> caller: yes, sir, you got it. my question to you is in regards to the recent pfizer spin-off. as you are well aware, over the weekend pfizer announced that they will spin-off its off-patent branded drugs business >> right >> caller: and combine it with generic drug maker mylan >> right >> caller: since obviously this will impact their financial reporting metric, how would you advise us young and old investors investing in pfizer, sir? >> i don't think pfizer has earnings momentum that i like. i prefer to see you in novartis. i think that they are a better place to be right now. pfizer, that deal was not that great frankly, and it also revealed it

mr. cramer, how are you? >> good. >> caller: thank you for all the valuable information you shared with us lately i'm also a new member of the club my stock is beyond meat, bynd. i missed the opportunity to buy it when it went public tyson's food is also planning to develop its own line of alternative protein products will there be more competition moving forward do you think it's still a good growing company to invest? >> thank you, and thank you for being a member of the club this is beyond meat is still worth 10 billion that's too much, okay. i think that the company is going to be terrific it needs to grow into its market cap. impossible is coming, but it's gmo. i listen to tyson's conference call they do too much much a blend of plant and meat that doesn't work at all this company just did 3.2 million share secondary and the stock is very heavy. i want you to wait it's going to come in, i believe. >>> let's go to david in california david. >> caller: hi, booyah, from central coast in california. thank yo

mr. cramer i bought $20 a share and i sold some of it at $70 a share. with everything going on, should i sell the rest or keep it >> i think that people -- i'd sell some. i'd sell some because i think that in the end, the apparel stocks are losers right here, and even the good ones are losers so i mean, even the vfs corps, a good situation i don't want to touch apparel. let's go to casey in california. >> reporter: this is casey from south sacramento. >> i love sacramento. >> caller: the stock i'm calling about is shopify too late to jump in? >> you have to wait for it to come down. it hit 372 today i a have big conference call wednesday where i have to talk about the shopify of the world because wow, some of these stocks went up so far, so fast let's go to chris where my daughter used to live, oregon, chris? >> caller: boo-yah to ya jim from the pacific northwest. >> i love where you live what's up? >> caller: i'm looking at duncan been collecting since the beginning of the year and the beyond me partnership, what do you think for the rest of the year.

mr. cramer. thanks very much for taking my call it's an honor to speak with you. years old and my stock is -- i bought it at $20 a share since then it's gone up 67%. i don't know want to sell any of it because it keeps going up, kind of like beyond meat used to do mr. cramer, should i sell some of my -- or should i keep -- >> where do we find these kids that kid is fabulous frank's got genuine horse sense. that's why frank is going to sell half of n phase because it's up way too much given its solar roots. lets the rest run. beyond meat impossible burger is going to have a $5 million valuation. frank speaks truth to power. >>> all right. let's go to jason in new york. jason. >> caller: hey, jim, big fan of the show thank you for taking my call i'm calling about fort net what do you think? >> i think the proof point is better, i think symantec is better i think there are a bunch that are better >>> let's go to david in illinois david. >> caller: your opinion on equity commonwealth, eqc >> you know, it's got -- it's up a lot. it's a reit. i think that maybe it's tim

mr. cramer congratulations on everything you've done. it really is incredible. this was your first ever quarter of positive operating income now since we've seen each other, the acceptance of what you're doing has grown. how did you do it? >> well, i think as you point out, we have a brand-new platform technology to treat cancer, so it's not surgery. it's not chemo therapy, it's not radiation. it's different and that means that we have to educate doctors and we have to educate patients and we have to keep publishing papers and we have just done that as a steady clip so that our therapy is becoming accepted we also were designated category one by something called the nccn the national comprehensive cancer network this is the group of leading medical schools that essentially determine standards of care, category one is their highest designation. that helped a lot, too. >> that must help with reimbursement which is crucial for any procedure. >> of course, to bring a therapy to patients, which at the end of the day is our mission to bring our therapy to as many pati

mr. cramer. it's a pleasure. >> how are you >> caller: i'm good, thank you could you please explain the technique of buying calls? and if it could be or should be used by us home gamers to boost or pad our portfolios? >> look, it's a great question the nazarian brothers, they've done some fabulous work on options and "options action" friday afternoon they can be a great way to limit your exposure. if you get the book getting back to even, i have a 100-patience exposition of calls to limit your downside to limit your exposure getting back to even >>> david in can have. david. >> caller: booyah, jim cramer, thanks for having me >> i'm glad you called >> caller: quick question. for millennials who are somewhat knowledgeable about the market, where should they invest their money other than fang? >> you know what, there's a lot of different fang-like names in all sorts of different industries for instance, i like aerospace that's a long-term bull market maybe you get something in that group. i like a

mr. cramer, we think you're awesome. >> thank you >> caller: so i'm your typical baby boomer that workedyears and i'm thinking about jumping off the retirement cliff i know you're going to rake me over the coals 17% of my portfolio is in pfizer stock, preferred common and i reinvest the dividend. >> okay. fa fiez ser disappoi pfizer is disappointing. i continue to believe merck is going to go higher and i think pfizer could bounce here but i think you got to let it go they don't have the pipeline that i'd like them to have i prefer abve. let's go to linda in my home state of new jersey, linda. >> caller: hey, jim, how are you today? >> good. how about you? >> caller: doing well. thank you so much. my stock and i'd like to hear your thoughts on this is abm industries. >> i like that company i've liked it for a long time. it's just a kind of very sleepy, consistent, facilities contractor not unlike air mark that looks like it has some, a little let's see uncertainty going there. i'll say yes to abm. let's go to randy in california, randy? >> caller: jim, schlumberger is best to breed, what

mr. cramer and the love in your heart for him is always evident. i'm sure he was a proud father my father worked hard all his life and worked until he was 92 when he passed away, he worked even the last month before he died he instilled in me an attitude of let's just say toward as long as you're honest things paid off over and over again. honest and hard working people get paid off i believe that i know such a thing as luck but instilled in me a desire to work really hard and here i am. all right. next up we have a tweet from @john who says i'm a grandfather of four. you lucky guy. i have the ability to do this. is it a good investment idea to give my grandkids all under 10 about 5 k in solid funds like russell 2000 index you're the man that's exactly what you should do and you're very thoughtful and that will pay off for your grandchildren. our next tweet is from @crejhr 1 complicate who says cramerica gets a callout in every show but don't forget the cramanians. i try to buy land in canada once i was not able to. drives me crazy because i love c

. >> caller: i want to give kudos to your hero mrs. cramerhow to trade better than anybody else in the world. >> caller: good for her and you. i want to know your opinion buying on the market and mo monetary system. >> cash is the best hedge. i happen to like actual physical gold i actually like buying gold coins. if you can't afford those, the g-o-l-d will do. the stocks will not work because they tend not to reflect the price of gold. if you buy gold, don't keep it in your house but you're dead right abdomen tout the idea stocks don't need to be letters or numbers they are real. touch, taste and play with them. with kids, that's often the best place to start still more "mad money" ahead including investing advice from one of the wisest people around, teenagers. i'll explain next. >>> a serious piece of investing wisdom that's dead wrong and could reek havoc and i'm taking your questions tweet by tweet so send them my way @mad tweets and stay with cramer do you have concerns about mild memory loss related to aging? prevagen is the number one

mr. cramer, thank you for calling my call. roll tide. >> roll tide, love that. >> caller: i had a quick question about berkshire hathaway it's down 8.4% since five months is now a good time to buy -- >> yes, the answer is yes, unqualifiable yes. great value there and great man at the top period end of story. >>> i need to go right now to r.j. in california r.j. >> caller: booyah, jimmy they know nothing, they know nothing. i have a 5g play -- >> they know nothing >> caller: my entire hia position to tsm, taiwan semiconductor. >> well, you're taking kind of a risk there i do like the company, but i got to tell you, marvel, mrvl i own for the charitable trust, i will see your taiwan semi and raise you with marvel because rick hill is the chairman and rick hill -- >> hallelujah. >> midas is what they call him i need to go to grant in texas grant. >> caller: cramer, thanks for taking my call >> my pleasure >> caller: i wanted to ask you about yeti it hit 20% after all time highs in july. is it an opportunity to buy or stay on the

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mr. cramer >> once again, i got to throw the flag he's down there giving them the business it's really hardread this in the end it's like, could you stop already how much can they give him a beatdown the president has made his point. i don't think there's anyone in jackson hole who doesn't know the president's point. and yes, can they read german bonds? yes, they know how i think it's basically enough already. the chosen one has got to back down he the chosen one has made his statement. did anyone else find that to be, i don't know, sacrilegious i thought it was >> a little what >> sacrilegious. >> i didn't -- you saw the whole clip when he said it, he said, you know, no one else has taken on china. i'm the one chosen it's weird he could have said, i choose to take on, instead of there was someone who chose him. >> i like what he said about the chinese, but there were people in my family who were not happy about the chosen one >> jim, thank you. we'll see you in a couple minutes here when "squawk" returns. >>> good thursday morning. welcome to "squawk on the street." futures bounce again af

mr. secretary, great to have you on >> thank you very much >> thank you >>> let's get down to jim cramerchange and, jim, a lot of things to ask you, but what you thought from home depot and other retailers wei we heard from this morning, maybe not as much bad news as some had anticipated they think the consumer is pretty strong. >> in each case the cadence of the actual month is very, very positive, including the time after the quarters closed, which i think is always great. so, yes, i think that if you listen it these -- you go back to what larry kudlow said on "meet the press ," you agree maybe optimism is in too short supply home depot is gigantic, great read on the professional and the person who is just rying to refurbish their home these are bullish numbers from home depot they already flagged lumber, the algorithms who read the headlines, just not reliable they have been telling me, they said lumber is a problem >> we have gotten that message from walmart and home depot. you think that's going to be the rule or the exception when you look back at retail and after the next week or