Thursday, 02/07/08
Posted 02/07/08,  8:57 pm ET

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Today's date:  Thursday, 02/07/08

  Dow Jones: 12,247     + 46
  NASDAQ:   2,293     + 14
  S&P 500:   1,336     + 10
 
 
 
 
 
First Segment
 
 
 
Opening Segment 1 Title: 'Cramer's Execution Squad'

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Featured Stock(s): No specific stock picks...


See Opening Segment 2, below...

        

JJC:    Okay, so last night, I'm out with the big guys... you know, the big hedge fund guys... the gunslingers... the masters of the universe!...   And one of them takes me aside, and says, listen Jimbo, I shorted 500,000 shares of Pepsi (PEP) today because, when that thing reports, they're going to take that thing down $5!

This guy was already ringing the register... he wasn't even waiting for the earnings report.  Today... today, he's waterboarding himself in the Gatorade...   The stock closed up $3.68.

Why did he lose so much money?...  Because he got too negative.  He did what we called 'pressing'...

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I've got another guy... who told me I was all screwed up... in my ridiculous call the other day on J. C. Penney (JCP)...  That's right, like the Fed, he said I knew nothing...

So, what happened today?...

JCP up $3.72... and that guy be hanging himself... 

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There's a common theme here...   The theme is execution!...

Indra Nooyi (CEO), at Pepsi (PEP), promised us that new products would points on the board... and they are working.  She promised us healthier snacking... and she's given it to us.   She promised us control over raw costs, and she's done it...

And they seem to have discovered...  they discovered at Frito-Lay (owned by PEP), that Doritos in China and India...  and what they discovered... you know what?...  You can't just eat one of those, and when a couple of billion people can't just eat one, you've got some pretty big numbers...

And international's ramping as a percentage of PEP's business... over 35%...

You know what I say?...  Two thumbs up.

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At J. C. Penney (JCP), we saw some clearance sales that may have pumped up some numbers a bit, particularly in the Northwest, but that's okay...  because we still think that Mike Ullman, III (CEO) is turning the corner after a miserable year... and now you've got a good month in hand...

Plus, beginning this month, JCP is going to be reporting its online business as part of its numbers, and I've got to tell you, of the major department stores, JCP's online store is by far, the best of all...  Check it out... I'm not kidding...  Their online site is the best of the majors.  That will boost numbers too... 

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Now, I'm not talking about the overall market being that good...  It isn't that.

I'm not talking about a tech rebound, because Cisco (
CSCO) held it...  I'm going to tear the idea of a tech rebound to pieces later in the show...

What I am talking about though, is the pervasive negativity that you may have... that I may have...  that so often clouds our thinking...

I want you to realize that we cannot be blind to opportunity in this show, or in our daily trading lives... or investing lives...

You have to trust the CEOs who've earned it, because they can deliver in this economy. They've figured it out...  And, if you bet against them, you will lose...

These are people who get it right.  Let's not sell them short, or their company stocks either.
 

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The Bottom Line!:     It's easy to say it's bad, and nobody has the execution to deliver...  It's easy to say, Oh God, turn off Cramer... He can't make us money in this environment...  But may I tell you something?...  That's not true... And, even worse, not paying attention can cost you money...


[See Jim's 2nd Opening Segment stock picks below... ]

 

 

 



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Second Segment
 
 
Opening Segment 1 Title: 'Carnival Cash'

'Call Collect'

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Featured Stock(s): America Movil (AMX)

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See Opening Segment 2, below...

        

JJC:     All week, we've been talking about the rise of Brazil as an economic powerhouse...

This is a country that investors can no longer afford to ignore... especially not with our domestic economy in such bad shape...

They've got stocks that can make you a lot of money...

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Now, we want to know where the people in Brazil spend all the money they make, exporting this (oil) stuff, along with their agriculture exports...

We want you to profit from this country's development... from the rise of the Brazilian class... Brazilian gentrification...

And we're going to try to do it, by buying of all things...  a Mexican stock...

Yep, I'm talking about America Movil (AMX)... a stock I've liked for a long time.  I'm reiterating my buy...  AMX, the largest cell phone operator in Latin American, with over 153 million subscribers, 30.2 million of whom live in Brazil...

AMX may not be a pure play on Brazil... but, if you ask me, it is the best play...

There are more people with more money in Latin America as a whole - and Brazil, specifically - as it's AMX's fastest-growing country, when it comes to subscribers.  Of course, that means more money for AMX... 

Especially in countries where there aren't many landline telephones, a cell phone is what you buy, when you join the bourgeoisie...  It's a status symbol that has the added advantage of being useful...

AMX has been one of the best secular growth stories of the last five years, because of the increasing prosperity of Latin America.  And everything I see in Brazil, tells me that AMX is far from done.  I think we're early...

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AMX has two big competitors in Brazil...  One is called Bibo, and the other is TIM, each of which have about 26% of the market, but AMX...  I call it the best of breed...

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If we needed to be reminded about AMX's performance, their latest quarter, which they've just reported this week, was truly stellar...

AMX earned 84 cents per share... 8 cents higher... what a beat!... 8 cents higher than what those analysts were looking for.  They grew these earnings at a 53% clip, if you measure them in U.S. dollars, but a mere 50% if you use Mexican pesos... 

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AMX beat on all the key metrics...

The Street expected 8.4 million new subscribers.  They added 10.1 million, and their sales came in ahead of expectations too...  Boy, we've been looking for a cell phone play like that haven't we?...

We also learned yesterday that AMX is increasing its buyback to 65 billion pesos, or $6 billion... which comes in at more than 6% of the total shares (outstanding)...

You have to appreciate the cushion that a buyback of a growth company that's for real... that's a cushion...

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AMX looks like the best play on a proven theme...  but, strangely, it trades at a mere 14x this year's earnings estimates...  Do you know, that's cheaper than Verizon (VZ)...

Now, we love Ivan (Siedenburg), the non-terrible, over at VZ... but, c'mon...  VZ is only a fraction of AMX's growth.  With this level of growth, an American company would get a fatter multiple, even in this growth-unfriendly market...

If anything, it should trade at a premium for not being tainted by our economy...

One last point, before I add AMX to my Carnival float...

If you own this stock, you'd be in great company...

Carlos Slim, the richest man in the world (It's true!... On August 8th, 2007, Fortune magazine reported that Carlos Slim had overtaken Bill Gates as the world's richest man)... owns 33% of the stock, and he knows what he's doing...

Let me give you some genuine Cramerican wisdom/horse sense!...  You don't get to be the richest man in the world being stupid... 

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[See Jim's past comments on Mad Money about America Movil (AMX), pre-searched for you here >> ]

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The Bottom Line!:     The best play on Brazil's prosperity isn't Brazilian... It's America Movil (AMX).
 

   
 

Stock Snapshots - Includes all stocks mentioned above

 

 

Jim
Cramer's
rating on
this stock

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America Movil (AMX)

         

 

 

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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 is calling, or what their stock question is about.
 

 
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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...

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.

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).

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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