mr. cramer, thank you for taking my call.otech company i have been following for a number of years and investing in. i think it is finally on its way. >> we have been waiting for that cancer drug to pay off. congratulations to them. how about miguel in vermont? >> this is miguel speaking. i am honored to have your attention. i would like to know your opinion on a mirror prize? >> it is a good solid but i don't think my viewers would like it. what matters is making money. jay, new york. >> boo yah, mr. cramer. >> that thing is so hot. i can't go there. 52 is high. i would rather take profits than by year. let's go with chris in new york. chris. how are you doing? >> the chill man is doing fine. how about you? >> i've been watching you since nvidia. >> that was the single line. >> that was a good one. thankfully, i have gotten a four digit purchase out of it. >> wow. there is that cash flow. when you are in california last week you express your views on nuclear power. >> it sure is. sure is. >> i stumbled across this company th

mr. cramer first of all, i want to say thank you for everything you do, and i mean it from the bottom of my heart. >> you're quite welcome. thank you. >> caller: my question is a little bit different. >> okay. >> caller: about 10, 15 years ago, i bought a substantial amount of pepsi. about 18 months ago, i bought a fair amount of celcius based on your interview with the ceo and your recommendation on it. then along comes pepsi, and they invest $550 million into celcius. i know you predict or you say do not ever buy a stock based on where you think they're going to make a takeover. >> correct. >> caller: but here i'm in a situation now where i own both of them. i love both of them. and i don't want to sell either one of them. >> then don't. i think they're both great they're different animals. pepsi is a senior growth stock it sells just as a junior growth stock and they have terrific trajectories you will be fine only within the larger confines of the portfolios. all right. we need the greedy people, the ones that came in late to the party, they've been wrong and they have to finish sell

mr. cramer, thank you so much for taking my call it's a pleasure and an honor. >> bob, thanks for callingaller: yes, sir. hey, i had a question about this stock, and i know you've been preaching don't buy this tech, kind of run-up but this company had such great earnings, and their numbers were great. what do you think about crm here >> surveillance video, they just announced a major restructuring. you're absolutely right, bob i have said that as of last friday, i don't want to buy the text they've run too much i think salesforce can go further down, and when it does that, we can look at it. you're absolutely right. the quarter was good, although the revenue was a little slower than i would have liked. the sector is wrong right now. the sector will be right not that long from now but i do not want you to just dive in at this very moment. i do a big position on it for my charitable trust let's go to beau in alabama. beau >> boo-yah, mr. cramer glad to see you got your voice back we missed it. >> ah, thank you sure trying to keep there it i really appreciate that thank you very much. >> cal

mr. cramer my question is about paypal.ypal a while back it looks like they went down quite a bit. but what's going on with paypal? >> competition got very steep. competition is very steep. it's very tough. it's very difficult to go against all these other companies in financial tech. so therefore, paypal's been a re tough stock to own and i think it's going to remain a tough stock. the shrinkage problem across retail has no easy solutions right now. so i want you to stick to the companies that aren't being hurt by it. i'm talking about amazon i'm talking about costco much more "mad money" ahead including the hype around ai, it's taking the market by storm. but i'll tell you why it's important to keep the excitement in perspective when i turn in tonight's homework >>> then i'm cutting through the noise and pointing out the positives that you may have missed as chatgpt continues to dominate the headlines with its hype and all your calls rapid-fire in tonight's edition of the "lightning round." so stay with cramer. >>> every

mr. cramer, thanks for your time it's a pleasure to speak with you. >> appreciate you. >> my question is about bank of america. i watch your network all the time i see mr. monahan, mike mayo on it a lot they love bank of america. but one thing that always gets me, they never talk about merrill lynch. it's like they forgot about it no advertising it's never mentioned >> you know what, i agree with you. i want to bring that up because i grew up where that is the absolute best, best, highest quality. the problem is the banks are not being bought by anyone i think we're seeing yield not enough people worried about banks, credit, the fed. which means that if they mention it or not, bank or america going to stay cheap. i don't want something to stay cheap. i want a stock that fwgoes high. i know people are itching to do some buying. i absolutely get that. but i say no i want you to wait for your favorites to come in and then pull the trigger. but not before then. maybe we miss a few points i'm willing to accept that "mad money" tonight, dominos is looking freshly prepared analyst notes that he

mr. cramer, hello from spokane washington. >> i can only say good things. that is it. >> i love the zags. >> i have been very fortunate to see big run ups recently. i'm wondering if right now is a good time to skim some profits off the top of those, and reinvest them for ladders in my portfolio? that would be dutch brose which is down recently -- >> give me a second. josh has to stop growing so fast. he's going to hurt the company. if he were here right now, i would say listen. i don't know coffee like you do. i don't know the annihilator, but i know stocks. stop the overexpansion. you are hurting the franchise. protect the franchise. okay, now we get the dramas over with. i think they will take a wait and see approach with the cuts. remember, everyone is joining the bullish party. you know what we have to do when that happens. the inflation picture, many are freeing stocks. ♪ hostess, twinkie, yes. find out how the environment is. plus, now that we've heard from you, i am offering my key takeaways and reports. first, flying higher with r&d, this is a 40% j

mr. cramer. quite welcome. >> caller: i'm retired but i'm an old cramer fan. >> what's going on >> caller: i bought a couple of your pipeline stock recommendations. i kind of like those last april i bought into a little small cap pipeline stock that's building a pipeline through west virginia. it's extremely politically hot bed -- >> that's senator manchin's pipeline take half off the table. thank you for watching for so many years let's go to michelle in new york michelle >> caller: hi, jim. >> michelle, what's up >> caller: do you think it's too late to get back into idex laboratories >> yes, i do i prefer you are in zoa. johnny in massachusetts. johnny >> caller: we want to hear your thoughts on alibaba. >> alibaba is the only chinese stock i would recommend. if you have to buy a chinese stock, that would be the one i don't think you should, but that's the one joe in new jersey. >> caller: my man, cramer. hope all is well with you and thank you for making me make a lot of mad money. >> that's w

mr. cramer thank you for taking my call >> of course, monty. what's going on? >> caller: i have a new expression for you the more you learn the more you earn >> i like that yeah, i like that. >> caller: okay, good. feel free to use it anytime. >> okay, i'll steal it i'll steal it. i mean, they won't know it came from you you don't mind that, i'll just use it, right? listen tomorrow morning to "squawk on the street" you're going to see me take credit for what monty in florida just told me >> caller: my pleasure anyway, my question for you is on qualcomm. due to the ai -- obviously a lot of stocks. qualcomm has been kind of in the laggers to say the least over the last year or so and i was wondering what your thoughts were on -- >> qualcomm is an inconsistently managed company and is also a company that is given to what i can only say is hype and i don't like hype. i don't like hope. i like facts and that one just doesn't fulfill my dream the market seems like it's clinging to the magnificent seven and the days ahead could tell us if that trend is going to just c

mr. cramer >> yeah. nathan >> caller: what do you think of carvana? >> okay.e company which i think is incredibly overvalued and there's carvana the stock which keeps going higher those are two different things you pick which one you believe in let's go to vince in ohio. vince. >> caller: what's up, jim? first-time caller from cleveland. big boo-yah. >> cleveland is the fourth fastest growing city in america. how do you like that >> caller: not bad and we got good weather. the stock i'm calling about today is pbr i know you like energy companies and a little dividend catch to it >> i like pbr. a nice cold pbr. here's the problem the fact it's located in brazil. it's an imbalanced country i would be a seller of pbr and that ladies and gentlemen is the conclusion of the "lightning round" >> announcer: the "lightning round" is sponsored by td ameritrade coming up, cramer goes around the horn flio t e bottom look at inatn,heconomy and your money. next you ok, man? the internet is telling me a million different ways i should be trading. look! what's up my trade dog

mr. cramer, long-time listener >> excellent >> caller: what is your outlook on plug power?ou only get so many strikes in this game. let's go to nick in pennsylvania nick nick go ahead, nick, you're up. >> caller: hello >> yeah, nim, it's jim >> caller: no, this is jason >> sorry jason, what's up >> caller: i was wondering about nuscale power. >> a lot of hype not rigorous enough for me to recommend on this show william in arizona >> caller: boo-yah from sun city basell >> i like it i think you can own it for the long term. bruce in florida >> caller: released results of a trial to demonstrate a slight increase in overall survival and -- >> yeah. but not enough i was surprised it wasn't better after all the things they've done for brain cancer. i'm going to have to say stay away how about terry in washington? terry. >> caller: i'm a club member >> yes >> caller: i've been following you since we both had hair hey, buddy -- >> since i was 7 >> caller: yeah. what is the best play for the industrial slash power grid? i'm looking at eaton what do you think? >> you're absolutely r

mr. chairman for running over. thank you. but senator cramer of north dakota's recognized regards thank you in thank you chairman for being here. i know several of my republican colleagues have been asking and the potential for changes in capitol requirements. i am afraid apart what we're trying to do is to fix a liquidity crisis or regional banks with a capitol fix it. don't think the to necessarily go hand-in-hand. in fact it seems to me or trying to engineer a soft landing we've taken a positive certainly not critical of that. i cannot fathom why the fed we went to raise capitol requirements. we could be facing a credit crunch. does that make sense to you and a potential credit crunch with higher rates obviously? somewhat by design. does it make sense to increase capitol requirements for banks and individuals? oxide is always a trade-off. hire capitals' stronger banks that can last air bigger crisis and things like that. it is a continuum. it also means slightly less capitol being available and higher prices capitol. the thing with capitol r