sherwin williams was a victim of great expectations. the stock has come back since this because this paint-maker is a terrific player in the housing rebound. that theme seems to be almost unstoppable. three weeks ago, sherwin williams agreed to acquire co-mex, a mexican-based paint company. meanwhile, as business gets better, the company's outlook on raw materials inflation is moderated, something that will be a boon for sherwin williams margins next year. they open up enough plants that it's not going to hire any more. this one is better than ever, particularly when you consider how much damage sandy has done and how much square footage must be repainted because of that horrible storm. okay, here's the bottom line, you don't have to keep searching for new ideas. as long as the old ones work just fine. that's why if we get an agreement with the fiscal cliff, i would be a buyer of amazon, visa, mastercard and sherwin williams. i'm lukewarm on google. stick around for my update on the five remaining anointed growth stocks. >>> coming up,

but sherwin williams makes good acquisitions of its own and i think sherwin williams is an absolutely terrific stock and i would not want to sell it particularly because i think the housing story is so strong that even if it gets knocked down by the fiscal cliff it will come back again. lisa in missouri. lisa. >> caller: hi, mr. cramer. first i want to thank you for helping me to get in the game. >> oh, thank you, lisa. what's up? >> caller: i was wondering what you think about pfizer's $4 billion ipo launch of its animal health care unit. >> i will tell you i'm excited about it. i have warmed up to pfizer. close viewers of this show know i'm not really into the big, big pharma names because they don't have the growth that develop gene has or the growth that gilead has. but pfizer's fine and if you own it i endorse it. i think it goes higher. i want to go to mark in new york, please. mark. >> caller: boo-yah. how are you? >> real good. >> caller: my question is two related companies. first solar since september is going up 50%. second question concerning recent ipo solar -- do you --

. >> there's a deal last week with ppg, sherwin-williams has been on a deal.n terms of this part of the housing recovery place, it's been on fire. >> yeah, but i think actually at this point in the cycle i would much rather own this than a sherwin-williams. they've been a rocket ship. how many rooms can you paint? but in this particular case -- >> or, how where shirts can you paint? i mean, pink, pink. >> spill. >> sorry. >> anyways, i'd much rather own this. >> okay. >>> coming up next hour on "mad money," is imtime to buy into one boat play? cramer hits the high seas. plus, he's going to respond to your tweets @jimcramer. so, stick around, it's all coming up, top of the hour. meantime, don't go anywhere. first move tomorrow when we come back. stick around. tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 let's talk about low-cost investing. tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 at schwab, we're committed to offering you tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 low-cost investment options-- tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 like our exchange traded funds, or etfs tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 which now have the lowest tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 opera

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. >> bravo to sherwin williams, donated the 900 gallons of paint that was slapped on.work out there. the sign looks as good as ever. >> quick little factoid. when it originally went up in 1929 it said hollywoodland. the famous letters, they're 45 feet tall, 350 feet long. >> really. have you ever been out there to see it? >> i've been by it. i haven't taken any photos by it. photo bombing. >> not yet. all right. >>> coming up, the unusual health scare for a well-known sitcom star who turns 27, young guy, just turned 27 today, matter of fact. >> why prince william left his pregnant wife's hospital room looking a bit more upbeat. our royal baby bump watch is up next. ♪ baby you're the woman and i love and i love what it's doing to you ♪ >> announcer: "world news now" weather brought to you by consumer cellular. weather brought to you by consumer cellular. we were so blessed when we had triplets if by blessed you mean freaked out about money well we suddenly noticed that everything was getting more expensive so we switched to the bargain detergent but i found myself using

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it's sherwin williams, usg. true or pot? >> i think there was a rotation trade that happened. a bit in the beginning of the year. ran up again in the second half. people look for ancillary ways to play housing. those names have caught up a lot in terms of valuation. you can be choosy. we like mohawk a lot. but i think you have to be choosy in terms of valuation because thief had big runs, too. >> you point out for december traffic perspective buyers. pretty good, right? how would you characterize it? >> i think what we did see this year which is pretty interesting, normally there is a lot of seasonality. summertime, things drop off. gets better for a little bit in fall and then slows down toward the end of the year. we haven't seen that seasonality. things have stayed strong. a lot has to do with afford ability. we have inexpensive 30 year fixed rate mortgage. the other thing is if you already own a home, if you're a move up buyer that's owned a home, great rates, great time to be in the market. the real concern is the entry level buyer. we need them to come back into the home

amazon, visa, mastercard, sherwin williams. >> look at toll brothers today. holy cow.ou have to paint a loss of houses. household formation coming back. amazon is just a winner here particularly in sandy. i regard google as making a comeback. i think that when you look at what -- apple fears google. google is going to do better going forward. look at facebook by the way. they figured out things. i'm not going to be -- i'm looking at stocks that once we go over the cliff bounce back and if we don't go over the cliff are where a lot of money is going. >> where does ulta, are these tier 2 names? >> ulta is -- david and i joke about this. it's the growth stock -- key to this market. gilliad has been great. same with ulta. you may laugh at ulta. i won't finish my sentence. >> i may. >> this double the store thing is what whole foods says. any time you can double stores, growth guys just love it. >> we're told there's no concern if we go over the fiscal cliff that that will result in some sort of a chill in the housing recovery offer the housing market. this harvard study th

sherwin williams, depots, this year have been basing thesis on housing making a bigger comeback than do they have it wrong? >> no. i think perhaps i was misunderstood what you said. we see new housing coming back significantly. i was just trying to put it in perspective. our view is 1.5 million homes per year is a normal replacement level. we're coming from 350,000. it's now ramped up to about 800,000 plus. that's a great change. we're still far away from a replacement. i see that as a growth sector for us as do other people in this space. >> real quick finally. you have 22,000 jobs here already in the u.s. most are manufacturing here. apple is going to start to make some stuff here again. the i mac computer. is this something we'll see more of? >> we repatriated a number of jobs from outside of the u.s. we brought jobs from mexico and europe back into the united states. we've been doing that as well. i would say the largest impact on jobs, however, is growth and demand. if we see demand growth, we'll be adding more jobs. >> all right. jeff fettig, appreciate it. >> coming up next, u