In this article, we will take a look at 23 stocks that Jim Cramer discussed 12 months ago during his show on March 25, 2024, and examine whether he was right or wrong about those stocks.
In a recent appearance on CNBC’s Squawk on the Street, Jim Cramer commented on the markets ending another volatile week that ended after a massive $4 trillion selloff on the flagship S&P 500 since the post-election week at the start. He outlined that one of the reasons that the week was tumultuous was that the President was “creating pain” and then saying that he was sorry that there was pain. Cramer described Trump as gratuitous and added that the President’s comments had killed the stock market’s rally.
Cramer added that Trump “took stocks that had been going up and reversed them.” Cramer’s “still trying to figure out where the playbook gets us,” with the playbook being the President’s comments about the economy and the stock market. Following this, co-host Carl Quintanilla asked Cramer his thoughts on rumors that the President was trying to drive the bond market down but the strategy didn’t seem to be working. In response, Cramer shared:
“Well I mean we had that auction yesterday, that didn’t go well. People are kind of so on edge, but it’s not a flight to quality on edge. It’s more of a flight to cash. I mean you know this idea of a flight to quality does include that there’s part of the curve you wanna be on. Now when I was a hedge fund manager, there were these moments where you’d hear flight to quality and that meant that you really wanted to be in 30-day paper. We’re kind of back to that. Because that’s safe. 30-day’s very safe. It’s safe from the President. And, look, I, the President’s interesting. He’s intriguing. But I never really felt that we were in a moment where stocks should go down. When I was close to President Biden, when he would ride the train and I’d see him in Washington. . .I would have the page [inaudible] stock price, he would come over [inaudible] I don’t care about any of those. Well the President does. He wants them lower! He’s creating a sale. I mean I’ve never seen a sale mandated before. No one was thinking that he was going to bend when he did that gratuitous tweet.”
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He also shared his thoughts on the President’s latest round of tariffs on expensive alcoholic beverages:
“I mean the average person in this country, Republican or Democrat, is struggling to try to figure out what it means to put a big tariff on champagne other than the fact that well hey, there goes champagne. There’s no context. There’s no understanding. There’s no webpage you can go to that allows you to learn. You know you’re on your own, everyone’s on their own trying to figure out what a tariff means. And you know what does a tariff means? Well it means Pernod, Pernod Ricard, more expensive. You know, Campari. I mean people don’t know what these things mean. I’m in the liquor business and I don’t know what it means.”
Methodology
For this article, we compiled a list of 23 stocks that were discussed by Jim Cramer during the episode of Mad Money on March 25, 2024. We then calculated their performance from March 25th, 2024, market close to March 18th, 2025, market close. We have also included the hedge fund sentiment for the stocks, which we sourced from Insider Monkey’s Q4 2024 database of over 900 hedge funds. The stocks are listed in the order that Cramer mentioned them.
Please note that this article mentions Jim Cramer’s previous opinions and may not account for any changes to his opinions regarding the stocks that are mentioned. It is primarily an examination of how his previously provided opinions have panned out.
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23. Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN)
Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 342
At the time, the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission were going after Amazon, Google and Apple. Cramer was very vocal about this situation. He started by talking about Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN):
“Amazon takes heat for hurting small businesses. The FTC goes against Amazon.
There are an estimated 167 million Prime members in the US roughly half the country people love Amazon Prime because it cuts prices raises quality and promotes Innovation for consumers and the enterprise. if it didn’t it wouldn’t have any members Amazon’s biggest Rivals Walmart and Target are doing everything they can to catch up and they often succeed but Amazon keeps prices low so it’s hard to beat them. But they compete.
It’s not illegal to beat your competitors. In the end the government doesn’t like Amazon because it’s a $1.9 trillion company that the FTC thinks it’s too big.”
Overall, Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) has risen by 6.28% since that episode.
Recently, he’s been uncertain about the firm since it’s in a quiet period. Here are Cramer’s latest remarks about Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) from the 13th of March:
“[On FTC and AMZN and recent comments by FTC chair] No, that’s was a, that was what’s called a doctrinal issue. Now if you go over what Lina Khan did. What she was saying was that the people who are trying to put up stores, say with Amazon, are being hurt by Amazon. He was saying, that if people who are customers are hurt by Amazon, then we will go after them. It’s a very big difference. One was kind of like, if you went back to law school, really, totally different with the long term FTC doctrine. Which is to help the working person. She point blank said it’s not about the working person. He has reversed it to what the law was. . .he could have very just easily said listen we’re going to stick by the law . . .but instead he just convoluted the message.”