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CVS

38.09

na

CVS Caremark Corp. (CVS)

CVS -  I am impressed.  They bought Long's Drugs.  I thought the stock would get hit.  It didn't.  I also feel that the last quarter wasn't nearly as bad as people thought.  Their Caremark division missed up on a couple of contracts, but I have to think of CVS as a buy here.  But, in full disclosure, as much as I like CVS, I like Walgreen Co. (WAG*) more, and I've been buying WAG consistently for my charitable trust, and I'm going to continue to buy WAG, but I like CVS.

WAG*

37.16

na

Walgreen Co. (WAG*)

See CVS comments above for:
WAG

PTRY

19.41

na

Pantry Inc. (PTRY)

PTRY -  No, PTRY was a stock we liked a couple of years ago, but I just really think that, if I'm going to go down the list of companies that are going to be on the road, that need lower gasoline (prices), I am going to send you to CBRL Group Inc. (CBRL)... much more shareholder-friendly.

CBRL

28.59

na

CBRL Group Inc. (CBRL)

See PTRY comments above for:
CBRL

AMED

53.57

na

Amedisys Inc. (AMED)

AMED -  This is a crossfire play.  This is what I call a true battleground stock.  There are people like the excellent Cheryl Scolnick, over at CRT, who says that this is a stock that must be avoided.  It's home healthcare, home Medicare...  I have no particular view on AMED.  The reason I don't is because I think it's too hard.  Sometimes some stocks are too hard and Cramer just walks away...  Don't buy, don't buy... This is one where I'm walking away.

SWHC

5.46

na

Smith & Wesson Holding Corp. (SWHC)

SWHC -  No, no... SWHC was one of the first stocks I recommended.  It wasn't just because they had started to come up with pink fashion guns... I like that idea, although I think it's like a...  I'm also a 2nd Amendment guy... when it comes to guns. Although I am pro-gun and I have one... well, not anymore.  I had it... well, that's a different story.  SWHC went from $5 to $12 to $13.  We said buy, buy, buy, and then we said sell, sell, sell, and we said never look back.  It is back at $5, and I am never looking back... and hallelujah to the Supreme Court for its ruling on the 2nd Amendment.

HCBK

18.68

na

Hudson City Bancorp (HCBK)

HCBK -  You'll always find that on my buy list.  That's Ron Hermance (CEO).  He got the Bailey Building and Loan Award... very nice piece... hey, how about The New York Times finally recognizing Ron Hermance and HCBK?  I thought I died and went to heaven... The New York Times finally wrote something positive about somebody.  I say two thumbs up, way up New York Times... No, the New York Times is a major short!  Sell, sell, sell... but I do like Ron Hermance and HCBK.

NYT

13.58

na

The New York Times Company (NYT)

See HCBK comments above for:
NYT

IMA

35.34

na

Inverness Medical (IMA)

IMA -  Well I think they're finally digesting that awful acquisition.  I hated that acquisition.  I got really mad at IMA, because I liked them simply as a diagnostic play.  I thought it'd be a great play for the future.  The acquisition, they paid too much.  I think they're starting to integrate it.  Speaking of that, I also think that Hologic Inc. (HOLX) is finally coming back.  They're integrating it.  I invite IMA management back on the show, and HOLX's management back on the show, if they want to get tough, and then they can come on my show.  Until then, they are don't buy, they are don't buy.

HOLX

20.18

na

Hologic Inc. (HOLX)

See IMA comments above for:
HOLX

NOK

25.95

na

Nokia (NOK)

NOK -  I like NOK, but let me give you a suggestion.  The stock that I have bought for my charitable trust... it hit a 52-week high today... that, on any pullback, I think is a lot better than NOK, and that is QualComm Inc. (QCOM*).  That's the brains of the outfit!  I think they settled a big patent dispute with NOK that's going to be the blueprint for all the other patent disputes.  Every time they get a patent dispute solved, that stock's going to go higher, plus they've got 3G and they've got 4G (referring to the next, fourth-generation wireless high-speed technology coming).  I give you QCOM*.

QCOM*

56.35

na

QualComm Inc. (QCOM*)

See NOK comments above for:
QCOM*

GTI

19.43

na

GrafTech International Ltd. (GTI)

GTI -  Making a comeback... a little cyclical for me.  We had liked the stock a little bit lower, these electrodes.  I agree with you though.  I think it's overdone to the downside.  By the way, so is Nucor (NUE), which I can't stand.  I've got to buy that stock.

NUE

50.86

na

Nucor (NUE)

See GTI comments above for:
NUE

CEDC

66.59

na

Central European Distribution Corp. (CEDC)

CEDC -  Well, I mean, it was off 7 points because Vladimir Putin (President of Russia) has decided that he has decided to take over the world.  And you know what?  He seems to be doing a very good job... A good article by Rob Peters today in The New York Post.  But... I believe that, now that the war has been won, and he's done all the annihilation to stop the ethnic cleansing in Georgia, that I think we're okay now for CEDC.  I was concerned that he was going to declare World War 17, but he isn't, and I think we're fine there.

CHK

46.40

na

Chesapeake Energy Corp. (CHK)

CHK -  All right, look, I have been a big believer in Aubrey McClennan and CHK.  I believe that natural gas is actually literally so beaten down that you have to own a natural gas company, you have to...  I stuck by them for my charitable trust...  I got hurt.  I admit I got hurt.  I left the table, then I came back in too early.  But I must tell you, I think that CHK is too darn cheap.  Now, remember, if we get to the November election in California...  if they pass that gigantic natural gas bill, this stock is going to go up big.  In the interim, I think it's bottomed; I think natural gas bottoms at $7.50, where it's equal to coal.  I think you should buy some CHK.  I like the stock.  I've been wrong though, I've been wrong, but I like Aubrey McClennan and I don't care. 

ZOLT

16.82

na

Zoltek Companies Inc. (ZOLT)

ZOLT -  A big miss!  You know I haven't liked these guys for some time.  This is carbon fibers.  People think carbon fibers, they think windmills.  You know what I think when I think windmills, I think OC... an upside surprise, and only at $25.  You swap out of ZOLT... you move into OC... you stick with OC...

OC

25.26

na

Owens Corning (OC)

See ZOLT comments above for:
OC

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