We recently published a list of Jim Cramer Discusses These 12 Stocks & Trump DOJ’s Action Against Health Insurance Companies. In this article, we are going to take a look at where Banco Santander, S.A. (NYSE:SAN) stands against other stocks that Jim Cramer Discusses with insights on Trump DOJ’s action against health insurance companies.
In his recent appearance on CNBC’s Squawk on the Street, Jim Cramer commented on a report in the Wall Street Journal suggesting that the Trump administration’s Department of Justice was aiming to take on one of the largest healthcare insurers in America. While the firm’s shares dropped by 11% on the news, Cramer remained skeptical.
He started out by commenting that “the government has historically not been able to take on this group. They haven’t really taken on the middle-man either. Look I mean we have strong corporations in our country.” Cramer believes that instead of suing the firm, a better approach would be legislation.
“You’re gonna need legislation,” he outlined. “I don’t think you’re going to be able to do anything with the Justice Department,” believes Cramer. He added that “when you have these lawsuits it tends not to bring about any sort of practice. Look, I’m not being cynical. I know that there are people that just say how can you not, how can you not think that this is gonna break up everything?”
While President Trump’s bellicose approach with his administration has turned heads, Cramer shared that little will change at the Justice Department. According to him: “I think that this DOJ is like other DOJs, they’re just not powerful enough to take these companies on. They lose.”
As an example, Cramer pointed to the government’s lawsuits against opioid companies. He shared that while the companies “ended up having to pay,” they were able to continue operating as “nobody got shut down, nobody went to jail, nobody, again this is civil.” Subsequently, Cramer wondered whether “there are certain, companies in the healthcare industry that continue to win, and win, and win. And the initial reaction tends to be an overreaction.”
When told about Bill Ackman’s comments about avoiding the healthcare benefits stock stock and that it was a mental short, he commented:
“Well, again, legislation can do something. This idea of, of creating policy through the Justice Department has not worked. The Justice Department has [inaudible] not been able to create changes. But Congress can. And that’s what has to happen. Look, do I agree with Ackman? I think, I favor universal healthcare [laughs] so I’m way off the reservation. But I do think that if Congress gets involved, as it did under, with Obamacare, they had a shot. Right at the end it was, it was destroyed by the Republican Party. But that’s, that’s what happens.”
Cramer added: “The Justice Department doesn’t do it. . . .Look at what happened to Microsoft, every time the Justice Department really gears up, doesn’t work. Doesn’t change things.”
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Banco Santander, S.A. (NYSE:SAN)
Number of Hedge Fund Holders In Q4 2024: 17
Banco Santander, S.A. (NYSE:SAN) is a Spanish mega bank with a presence in the retail, corporate, investment, and other markets. The stock is up by a strong 47% over the past year, on the back of a stunning 22% gain in February alone. Banco Santander, S.A. (NYSE:SAN)’s shares surged in February after the bank reported an all-time-high €3.27 billion profit in its fourth quarter and a €12.57 billion profit for the full year to mark 11% and 14% growths, respectively. Banco Santander, S.A. (NYSE:SAN) reported the results on February 5th, and perhaps tellingly, Cramer had advised his viewers to buy the stock in late January. Here are his latest comments:
“Well, I find, you could argue, favorite bank to me, Banco Santander, I mean we’ve got a, we have a lot of foreign stocks that are doing quite well. And I think that the President, if he heard this discussion, I think he’d say no, look, our averages are still hitting highs. But there is, it’s a better view overseas right now.”
Overall, SAN ranks 12th on our list of stocks that Jim Cramer Discusses with insights on Trump DOJ’s action against health insurance companies. While we acknowledge the potential of SAN as an investment, our conviction lies in the belief that some AI stocks hold greater promise for delivering higher returns and doing so within a shorter timeframe. If you are looking for an AI stock that is more promising than SAN but that trades at less than 5 times its earnings, check out our report about the cheapest AI stock.
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