In this piece, we will look at the stocks Jim Cramer discussed before the DeepSeek sell-off.
In a fresh appearance on CNBC’s Squawk on the Street, Jim Cramer cautioned viewers to not be caught up by the energy that’s gripped the US stock market since President Donald Trump resumed charge. “Things are happening very fast. And I want so much to slow it down,” he stated. Cramer mentioned an article that mentioned “the burst of energy, some good, some bad,” adding that not every remark made by the President is investment advice. He believes that “a lot of people want to do that. [treat all of Trump’s remarks as investable]” They wanna do oil and gas, they wanna do with interest rates,” he added and shared “They have to remember that he doesn’t have the authority” particularly when it comes to determining interest rates.
Cramer further commented on the state of America’s non-tech industrial economy and how it tied in with the President’s desire for lower rates. According to him “I just think the industrial economy justifies everything that Trump wants to lower rates.” Yet, as consumer spending has remained robust despite high rates, Cramer added that “the consumer economy, says don’t lower rates.” He believes that if the president took a look at “how great things are at small to medium-sized business. Where the real strength’s coming since his election,” he would be hard-pressed to press for further rate cuts.
Energy was another topic on the CNBC host’s mind. Commenting particularly on natural gas and its demand in today’s era of AI data centers, Cramer shared “People only want to be in this business. Want to own stocks in this business because it’s going to be the biggest thing that we export.” However, he believes that these investors need to ask themselves “Are we going to export so much that domestically because we need it for the data centers, that the customer’s going to be squeezed by uh nat gas prices.” The surge in exports and data center demand could very well lead to higher natural gas prices for consumers. According to Cramer “Nat gas could go to five. That would be something.”
Not only is Cramer interested in energy, but the President ran his election on the promise of increasing America’s oil production and requiring oil companies to drill more. However, the CEOs that he’s spoken to “are all saying listen, we’re going to hold.”
“It’s kind of a Braveheart thing,” Cramer added. He believes “They’re not going to break. And they all are kind of united, but they don’t fix prices. Some people, the FTC felt that they fixed prices. That’s nonsense. But I do think that they’ve all said listen we’re making a ton of money. We’re not going to go down the path the President wants. So there’s going to be a test of wills.”
Another topic that Cramer touched on was SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet service. Starlink is powered by thousands of small satellites in low-Earth orbit (LEO) launched by SpaceX. Over the past year, it has grown its presence in the commercial aviation industry by providing airlines with internet connectivity. Cramer revealed, “You know the rap about Starlink I’m getting from, the push back that I’m hearing from some of the. . . that when you put em all up, like even when United starts, it’s going to slow down the latency, they can’t handle that.”
One of the hottest topics on Wall Street these days is Chinese AI startup DeepSeek. Investors’ worries about the firm’s R1 model being purportedly cheaper than American models led to Wall Street’s favorite AI stock crashing by a whopping 17% on Monday. However, Cramer dismissed the worries of US companies pouring too much money into AI on Friday. He shared that he wasn’t worried “because I’m a huge believer that this is the industrial revolution, and there are going to be so many uses that you just have to be in.”
A mere industrial revolution isn’t the only reason why Cramer was dismissive of the firm that led the AI GPU stock to lose all gains made since October 2024. Commenting on the firm’s GPUs and their potential he revealed:
“I think that what we’re not thinking about, like when I went to Jensen Huang’s panel on healthcare. It’s so much bigger than anything involving AI PC. I mean they’re really just talking about having the data to really attack every single disease and changing it from fatal to maintenance. You have tremendous number of people involved in trying to do that. Then you have Stripe there working with [the GPU company] to be able to do something revolutionary in finance. And then you have the banks working doing some revolutionary things trying to get people who’re doing S1s. . . .”
Cramer also believes that Fed chair Jerome Powell will be ‘perplexed’ by the amount of spending in America. According to him:
“The amount of people traveling. The bump up to first class, from commercial, from the, you know what second class we’ll call it, David. Uh, the amount of people just, the frequency at which people are having a dinner out. I don’t know what to say, there’s a burst of optimism that is being translated into spend. And particularly for younger people that I’m just flabbergasted about. It just can’t stop!”
The spending has left him flabbergasted. “We’re spending so much I don’t know how they can cut!” Cramer explained. “I want them to cut . . . I wanted to cut like a thousand times!” 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 January 24th.
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11. Intuitive Surgical, Inc. (NASDAQ:ISRG)
Number of Hedge Fund Holders In Q3 2024: 82
Intuitive Surgical, Inc. (NASDAQ:ISRG) is a medical technology company that specializes in making surgical robots. It is one of the few players in its industry, which provides it with a strong competitive moat. Estimates suggest that Intuitive Surgical, Inc. (NASDAQ:ISRG) commands a 57% market share. While several medical device companies, such as Abbott, ended 2024 on a lackluster note when it comes to share price performance, Intuitive Surgical, Inc. (NASDAQ:ISRG) closed the year 58.6% higher. In an earlier appearance, Cramer praised the firm and its management. Here are his latest remarks:
“I want to just mention that you’re getting an opportunity here to buy Intuitive Surgical. It pre-announced last week at San Francisco. I thought, uh don’t, I wanted to add it to the club, to the charitable trust. And then it just took off. It was a star, of, of San Francisco, star of the conference. And then they announced the regular quarter today and people suddenly don’t like it. Give me a break. Just go buy ISRG. It’s fantastic.”
10. GE Vernova Inc. (NYSE:GEV)
Number of Hedge Fund Holders In Q3 2024: 89
GE Vernova Inc. (NYSE:GEV) is an industrial equipment company that caters to the needs of the power generation industry. The firm provides products such as gas turbines and components for nuclear generation. It was one of 2024’s best-performing stocks as the shares closed the year 144% higher from the day it started trading after its spin-off. The optimism was due to GE Vernova Inc. (NYSE:GEV)’s exposure to power generation demand from AI; yet, the stock cratered by 21.5% on Monday after investors re-calibrated the demand for AI data centers. Ahead of the drop, here’s what Cramer said about GE Vernova Inc. (NYSE:GEV) on Friday:
“And if you go over the GE Vernova quarter, it is that’s why Vernova, someone downgraded GE Vernova today, the guy doesn’t know what he’s doing. GE Vernova is, they’ve got all bases covered. It’s natural gas. It’s natural gas.”
