In this piece, we will look at the stocks Jim Cramer recently discussed.
In his appearance on CNBC’s Squawk on the Street on Friday, Jim Cramer struggled to understand President Trump’s game plan. The President’s decision to announce tariffs on countries that have a trade surplus with the US roiled the stock market and made Cramer speculate whether the coming Monday would resemble 1987’s infamous Black Monday crash. He commented:
“I do think that what’s happened Carl, is that I struggle for why, for what the President’s game plan is. Because if you wanted to make the market, uh, crash, I think you would go with his game plan. I don’t like that, I do not favor that, that’s a they know nothing game plan, and it’s very disappointing. Because I’m a savvy person, business person, surrounded by business people, it should not be in our country’s interest to have the market crash.”
Naturally, criticizing the government is controversial and so is speculating about a possible incoming historic market crash. However, Cramer remained defiant and shared with viewers how he withstood the 1987 crash:
“Now if I am blamed for what I said, you know what, I don’t play for dinner! I am finally at the darn age where I’m allowed to say that if I mean it. Now I said it a couple of other times and I was right! In every occasion. I was in cash for 1987. In cash. That was not stupid. I was in cash for the crash. I obviously said in 2007 that they knew nothing. That was a good call. I don’t want this to be that call. There’s plenty of opportunity for the President to say, you know I’ve been thinking. We’ll do the TikTok deal. We’ll avoid this.”
While he didn’t shun buying stocks, Cramer urged viewers to be careful. “I can’t think of a single reason to buy a stock,” he said. Now I’m on hold, I mean we’ve sold enough stuff for our charitable trust. But I can’t bottom fish! I don’t want to sleep with the fishes!” he added.
In his Thursday show, Cramer outlined that stocks were readjusting to lower multiples stemming from tariff-induced higher costs of business. When asked if he was more bearish than his earlier prediction of prices falling for a multiple adjustment, he remarked:
“I think that, I find it impossible to believe that the President would actually order a crash. . . .We have a lot of people who have money in the stock market. It’s the bedrock of a lot of 401(k) and IRA. And I think that should play a role too. And I am much more of a hard-line tariff person than the President. . .I hate free trade. I am so much harder line than Navarro! And Trump!”
Cramer implored the Trump administration to give companies a path to navigate through tariffs. “You can undo what you did in the next 48 hours,” he said. “It makes no sense to hurt American companies. Give them a path! And then what then we go up!,” he added.
Our Methodology
To make our list of the stocks that Jim Cramer talked about, we listed down the stocks he mentioned during CNBC’s Squawk on the Street aired on April 4th.
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10. RH (NYSE:RH)
Number of Hedge Fund Holders In Q4 2024: 51
RH (NYSE:RH) is a home supplies company that is one of the worst-performing stocks this year. Its shares have lost 63% year-to-date due to a variety of factors such as disappointing earnings and investor pessimism about the economy. In his previous remarks about RH (NYSE:RH), Cramer has been of mixed opinion about whether the firm is in trouble or if it’ll do well. Here are his latest remarks about RH (NYSE:RH):
“A lot of people are very worried about their balance sheet. Which was referenced several times in the conference call. And we gotta get to the bottom of that. Gary’s bought back a lot of stock. And company’s bought back a lot of stock. And they have a terrific product line for wealthy people. But obviously people concerned about the buyback.”
9. Dollar General Corporation (NYSE:DG)
Number of Hedge Fund Holders In Q4 2024: 53
Dollar General Corporation (NYSE:DG) is an American discount retailer. Its shares have performed well this year and are up by 22% year-to-date. During Thursday and Friday’s selloff, Dollar General Corporation (NYSE:DG)’s shares actually performed well and ended up gaining 2.7%. In comparison, rival Dollar Tree’s stock didn’t do so well. Here’s what Cramer said about the divergence:
“[DG and DLTR shares trading differently due to their different exposures to China] Yes, Todd Vasos got very lucky with Dollar General. Dollar Tree is really struggling. No I know that was very, that was interesting. That was interesting. And I know that, that, five below went five below. I mean that’s like, really below. These companies you have to go case by case.”