We recently published a list of Jim Cramer’s Latest Calls: Top 10 Stocks. In this article, we are going to take a look at where Recursion Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:RXRX) stands against other stocks highlighted in Jim Cramer’s latest calls.
Jim Cramer in a recent program talked about Bitcoin and reminded investors that he has always believed in the cryptocurrency.
“I want to discuss Bitcoin, really. I do—not to the detriment of stocks but in addition to stocks. I come to praise Bitcoin, not buy it. First, let’s dispel the idea that I’ve never believed in Bitcoin. Now, if you search YouTube, you can see that I first bought Bitcoin on September 15, 2020, when it was at just over $10,000.”
Cramer said he likes the idea of Bitcoin being the store of value and said he always recommended investors to allocate 10% of their portfolio to the currency. However, he again urged investors to look to stocks for the rest of their portfolios.
“I heard Fed Chief J. Powell talk about how he believes people are buying Bitcoin as a store of value, like gold, because there’s not much transaction done in Bitcoin. I’ve always endorsed keeping up to 10% of your portfolio in gold as a kind of insurance against the world’s lunacy. But for years now, I’ve also been saying Bitcoin is a fine alternative to gold for that 10% position. Why not?
I think the federal budget deficit is at impossible levels…Sure, you might have been all in on Bitcoin. You know what? Terrific. Me too. But what if I told you there are indeed other ideas hidden in plain sight in the stock market? Ideas that you could have owned with the other 90% of your portfolio that wasn’t Bitcoin.”
Cramer then mentioned a few stocks that have posted dramatic gains since their IPOs to show investors the power of stock investing.
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Recursion Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:RXRX)
Number of Hedge Fund Investors: 16
Jim Cramer was recently asked about his thoughts on Recursion Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:RXRX). He said he was “wrong” about his initial excitement around the stock.
“I liked the story ……I have to tell you, you know what? That makes me wrong. I knew that Nvidia had a stake in it; they still do, and that made me get excited about it. I think that at this point, then, they did a secondary offering and it didn’t hold. Now, I think at $5, it is worthwhile speculation”
AI-based drug discovery is one of the biggest trends major companies and venture capitalists are betting on. Some estimates suggest AI-led drug discovery could soon be a $100 billion business. Recursion Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:RXRX) is an AI drug discovery play, as Recursion Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:RXRX) uses high-dimensional data and predictive results for drug discovery and development. Last year, Nvidia decided to invest $50 million in Recursion Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:RXRX) in a partnership that would see the combination of Recursion Pharmaceuticals Inc’s (NASDAQ:RXRX) chemical and biological datasets with NVIDIA DGX™ Cloud and other AI tech stack for drug discovery.
Here is what Lux Capital has to say about Recursion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:RXRX) in its Q2 2022 investor letter:
“As we discussed before describing “Extensionalism”, one of our theses has been the growing convergence between the biological and technological, the organic and inorganic, man and machine. Lux has made investments in the digitization, technological capture and amplification of each of the human senses. Consider vision and speech: we have technology that can rapidly recognize and label objects from pixels (companies that span defense, biotechnology, manufacturing and transportation like, Recursion (NASDAQ:RXRX), and others that can rapidly generate videos, images, and even more complex language from simple inputs.”
Overall, RXRX ranks 9th on our list of stocks highlighted in Jim Cramer’s latest calls. While we acknowledge the potential of RXRX, our conviction lies in the belief that under the radar 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 RXRX but that trades at less than 5 times its earnings, check out our report about the cheapest AI stock.
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