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Thursday, 08/21/08
Posted 08/21/08, 08:49
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Today's date:
Thursday, 08/21/08 |
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Jim
Cramer's
rating on
this stock |
STOCK
SYMBOL |
Closing
price
that
day |
Opening
price
next
day |
Full Company
Name/Comments
(see comments above for
each) |
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POT |
184.20 |
na |
Potash (POT)
POT - I'm nervous.
I'm nervous... I have backed
away from that fertilizer
group... I'm not going
back on it. If you haven't
sold the fertilizers yet, sell
them into this rally.
They're just too darn risky at
this point in the cycle...
especially if we get McCain as
President and he scraps the
ethanol mandate, which is what
Governor Perry said might
happen, when he was on our show
the other day...
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WTR |
17.80 |
na |
Aqua America Inc. (WTR)
WTR - No, no... we've
been down on that stock. I
even mentioned it in
Stay Mad For Life... Get Rich...
That is a company that has
scalded me... it does not have
real growth. I don't like
it. I like the management,
they're nice people, but I'm not
buying the stock...
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TXT |
38.03 |
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Textron Inc.
(TXT)
TXT - I am just blown
away at how badly this stock
acts, and the fact that I like
the company very much.
People think that it's got this
leasing division that's killing
them. I think that's
wrong. I'm not backing
away from TXT... a 52-week low
today?... I think that's
ridiculous and, if McCain
becomes President, everything
that they sell that's in the
military is going to go through
the roof. I like TXT right
here - buy, buy, buy! - at a
52-week low...
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ABT* |
58.49 |
na |
Abbott Laboratories (ABT*)
ABT* - ABT* is
dynamite! They did a
restructuring today.
They're saving money. The
stock is great. It's the
best-acting drug stock.
I'm proud that I own it for
my charitable trust... and I wish
it would come down a little so
that I could buy more!
That's my conviction level...
buy, buy, buy! At one
point, it was at $57.47...
I was thinking about issuing an
alert, saying hey, let's buy
some, but I've got a much lower
basis...
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ZRAN |
9.45 |
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Zoran Corp. (ZRAN)
ZRAN - Oh jeez, you had to
go spoil the situation, didn't
you?... This is this
digital video stuff... it keeps
missing the quarter... I
have no faith in this company
whatsoever. If you own it,
sell it.
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ACAS |
21.02 |
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American Capital Strategies
(ACAS)
ACAS - This is a
lender... this is really
important... that's known as a
mezzanine lender... they lend to
businesses. Let me tell
you... it's got a 20% yield...
Here's why I don't want you to
buy it... because somehow this
stock has been just a play thing
of the bears and the media...
You will go maybe a week and
there won't be an article, and
then you'll pick up the paper
and there'll be a negative
article about ACAS. Then
you go for another week,
nothing... and then another
article... There have
never been so many negative
articles planted about a stock,
in my life, than ACAS. And
I am not going to sit here and
recommend it, and then have to
defend it against every single
article that people put in the
papers. I can't stand it.
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JASO |
17.84 |
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JA Solar (JASO)
JASO - No, man... you
like risk! I like reward!
I know these stocks look like
they're going to creep up,
because oil's up, but I'm not a
buyer. I like
First Solar (FSLR),
I like SunPower (SPWR)
a little bit... I like
Applied Materials (AMAT)
on their machines they make that
are solar.
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FSLR |
279.27 |
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First Solar (FSLR)
See JASO comments above for:
FSLR
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SPWR |
94.45 |
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SunPower (SPWR)
See JASO comments above for:
SPWR
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AMAT |
18.36 |
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Applied Materials (AMAT)
See JASO comments above for:
AMAT
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WM |
3.90 |
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Washington Mutual (WM)
WM - I've got to tell
you... if Kerry Killinger (CEO)
were to take a leave of
absence... maybe a permanent
vacation... he's certainly
taking a permanent intellectual
vacation... I mean, maybe the
stock would go up, and it would
give you a chance to sell it...
but the fact that this guy's
still running the bank... Memo
to the FDIC.. will you please
step in already?... I
cannot tell anyone in their
right mind to buy WM, given the
fact that I think, even though
they've got one of the greatest
deposit bank bases in the world,
is one of the absolute worst-run
companies that I have ever seen.
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Back up the truck -
indicated by Jim, when he
says the stock is so good,
that he would do a
'mon-back' on the stock...
In other words, this is the
sound someone would say to a
truck driver, "Come on
back... " as he is "backing
up the truck" to load up on
his cargo. Translation
for buying stocks:
This recommendation by Jim
indicates that, after you do
your own
homework on the stock,
you should feel comfortable
loading up on it, as it is
in a good position to be
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Stumped. - Of the
2,000+ stocks that Jim
Cramer has in his head, for
which he has an informed
opinion, he sometimes comes
across a caller with a stock
he does not know well enough
to opine on... He then
indicates he is stumped and
will have to come back to
it, after he does some
homework of his own on
the stock. This
usually occurs during the
Lightning Round, when Jim
does not know in advance who
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stock question is about. |
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Definitions of key phrases
used by Jim, known as
"Cramerisms": |
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Definition: 'Pull the
trigger' is Jim's phrase for making
the decision at that point to trade -
either to 'buy' or
to 'sell' (although he
usually uses the phrase for
buying), as if to say you
should feel comfortable
enough to make the final
decision without looking
back... |
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Definition: 'Ring
the Register' is Jim's phrase for
selling a stock, and making
it a final sale, that you
should not look back on.
Put it behind you. |
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Definition: 'Let It Come In' indicates how you
may wait for it to pull back, or have the
stock price come down briefly, as your
chance (after letting it come in) to buy
the rest of your position (i.e., total
number of shares you own in that stock). |
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Definition: 'backing it up'
or 'doing a 'mon-back' is Jim's
phrase for the metaphor of backing up a
truck to load up on a stock by buying
it. 'Mon-back is short for the
imaginary worker saying, 'Come on
back...' as the truck is backing up to
receive its load... Notice that we use
the little truck icon to indicate where
Jim has mentioned this.
Translation for buying
stocks: This
recommendation by Jim
indicates that, after you do
your own
homework on the stock,
you should feel comfortable
loading up on it, as it is
in a good position to be
bought at this point. |
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