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Monday, April 30, 2007

Jim Cramer's Mad Money Stock Recap April 27th

At Your Laser: Ionatron (NasdaqGM: IOTN)
One stock Cramer likes for the CNBC Million Dollar Portfolio Challenge and even more for an actual speculative play is IOTN which produces lasers. The company makes both lethal and non-lethal lasers which are effective in locating and detonating explosive devices. The stock fell from $14 to $5 last May when it was passed up for a military contract, but IOTN has improved its technology to fit devices on existing vehicles, and Cramer predicts it will get the contract this time around and squeeze the shorts. He would do homework before buying the stock.

A Roll of the Dice: Penn National Gaming Inc. (NasdaqGS: PENN)
Next on Cramer's list of attractive takeover targets for private equity firms is PENN, a gaming company which is not among the most famous names, but gives "regular people all over the country the opportunity to foolishly flush their hard-earned money down the slots." The purchase of Harrah's is proof that private equity firms would consider a gaming play, and since PENN is smaller and cheaper, it would be easier to purchase. He predicts PEN will be taken over at a premium; "I think this one could make you over 30%, if you play your cards right," Cramer said.

Game Plan for the Coming Week: Vulcan Materials (NYSE: VMC - News), Avon (NYSE: AVP - News), Quest (NYSE: Q - News), Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG - News), Medco Health (NYSE: MHS - News), Wyndham Hotels (NYSE: WYN - News), General Cable (NYSE: BGC - News), Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE: CMG - News), Buffalo Wild Wings (NasdaqGS: BWLD), Allergan (NYSE: AGN - News), Transocean (NYSE: RIG - News), Trinity Industries (NYSE: TRN - News), American Railcar (NasdaqGS: ARII), Celgene (NasdaqGS: CELG), Charter Communications (NasdaqGM: CHTR), Level 3 (NasdaqGS: LVLT), Anderson's (NasdaqGS: ANDE), Estee Lauder (NYSE: EL - News), KBR Inc. (NYSE: KBR - News)
Monday: Cramer said the best strategy for the coming week is to grab winners ahead of their reports, and added there are so many great names, it may be hard to choose. On Monday, he likes VMC, up 82% with room to run.
Tuesday: Cramer has freed AVP from permanent residence on his Sell Block segment and predicts AVP will hit a "homerun." The stock is up a little over a dollar and has great BRIC exposure. Although Quest has had a 43% gain, Cramer is still backing it, and anticipates the announcement of a buyback or a dividend increase. He thinks PG will join the ranks of Pepsi and Coke thanks to its international success. MHS is "a member of the pantheon of consistency if there ever was one," since it is leveraged to drugs going generic and off patent. Cramer likes WYN as a baby boomer play and expects rosy numbers. After the bell, GC is a pick Cramer believes will go higher, although it has had a recent run-up. Concerning CMG and BWLD, he said, "I praise these stocks endlessly and correctly. I'm not stopping now."
Wednesday: Although Allergan is up 23% and "everyone is freaking out about competition," Cramer is not worried. He still likes RIG, but since it has risen 11%, Cramer would wait for it to come in a bit. He is also bullish on rail stocks TRN and ARII.
Thursday: Cramer says CELG has been "perking along" up from under $55 in February to over $61 now and predicts it will rally. He would sell CHTR before the quarter and buy it back. He reiterated his bullishness on LVLT and noted its strong organic growth and improved balance sheet. Cramer is looking forward to witnessing a short squeeze when ANDE reports; "We're going into ethanol harvest season. What are these people thinking? Go long, not short." He also likes EL as "the quintessential weak-dollar play."
Friday: Cramer suggests viewers invest in KBR "the only overlooked infrastructure play left on Earth," and says KBR will follow other giants in the sector, which have rallied.
Mad Mail, Cummins Engine (NYSE: CMI - News): Cramer congratulates those viewers who heeded his call to buy CMI and made some money; "We really nailed that one," he said.
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Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Jim Cramer's Mad Money Stock Recap April 10

Triple Deal for Triple Play? Charter Communications (NasdaqGM: CHTR), Comcast (NasdaqGS: CMCSA)
While Cramer recently doubted his sanity for having recommended CHTR, which hasn't budged since February, he heard some news that makes him bullish on CHTR once again. CMCSA announced plans to take over Insight Communications' assets in Indiana and Illinois for $4583 per subscriber, 12% higher than CHTR's rate of $4017. In addition, CMCSA made a deal with New Jersey based Patriot Media for $5,963 per subcriber. Cramer sees CHTR as a very attractive takeover target for Comcast, which is willing to pay a substantial fee for subscribers. Although CHTR has some debt, it is currently in a virtuous cycle of refinancing and is cheap. In addition, CHTR is based in fast-growing areas like Nevada and California and is a great triple play stock, comments Cramer.
All Cedant's Children: Wyndham Worldwide (NYSE: WYN - News)
Cramer notes that, after Cedant's breakup, its children are growing up "real fast", a total of 32% since the breakup. However, the ugly duckling seems to be WYN, which owns Ramada Hotels and timeshares and "is a great play on cheapskate baby boomers" who want fancy ski vacations but don't like to pay fancy prices. At $34.50, WYN is only $2 above where it was when Cedant spun it off, and Cramer sees more upside. He is not worried about its $2.9 billion debt, since it works like a bank, lending money at high interest rates. WYN is a takeover target, according to Cramer and is "way too cheap."
Makeover for Harsco (NYSE: HSC - News)
Cramer likes the way Harsco is reinventing itself and regrets referring to HSC as a manufacturing company. Instead, Cramer describes HSC as a "miniconglomerate of industrial services and products" and notes it is "taking the lead in industrial outsourcing." It is aggressively taking market share in mills and access services, businesses that "didn't exist ten years ago." Now the company is "beating the Chinese and everyone else as well." Cramer is bullish on HSC because it is "brilliantly creating a niche for itself."
Michael Farrell, Chairman and CEO of Annaly Capital Management (NYSE: NLY - News)
Michael Farrell explained why his company wasn't devastated by the subprime lending fiasco, and credits the company's thirty year experience in spotting trends; "I don't pretend to have a crystal ball ... but the bottom line is that it was unsustainable." Farrell said it is too early to pick up the pieces and the crisis, which has yet to reach the third inning, needs time to play itself out. "The flight to quality that's going to happen with triple-A assets is still there," Farrell continued, and stated the relative safety or danger will depend on the asset class. Cramer remarked that he regrets ever doubting the stock, and called NLY and Michael Farrell winners.
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Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Jim Cramer's Mad Money Lightning Round Feb. 27

Bullish calls:
Celgene (NasdaqGS: CELG): ' ... down $3 - where Bob Hugin [CEO] came on our show and assured us that things are good. So I'm going... CELG, particularly if you can get it under $50, which would be a gift.'AT&T (NYSE: T - News): ' Tomorrow morning, T - It would be a gift if that stock opened down. It's got yield protection. It's got a buyback. It's got superb management. It fits all my criteria. 'J.C. Penney (NYSE: JCP - News): 'I think you can possibly own a JCP, which is buying back stock and people think it missed the quarter, but Mike Ullman [CEO] is saying good things.'Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG - News)Colgate (NYSE: CL - News)Diageo (NYSE: DEO - News)Wyndham (NYSE: WYN - News): 'I've been doing a lot of work on WYN, which is a spinoff of Cendant. I like that more [than CHH].'Hilton (NYSE: HLT - News): 'You know I've been a big fan of HLT.'
Bearish calls:
Pain Therapeutics (NasdaqGM: PTIE): ' ... even though PTIE seems to have really good earnings power coming up next year, I think it's too risky. I honestly would rather see you in a CELG.'Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM - News): 'I think the stock should be lower. I do not get why that stock hangs in in this bad market. I don't want to own CRM, and I don't want anyone else to either. I invite the CEO if he wants to come on and talk about his stock selling.'Retail Ventures (NYSE: RVI - News): 'In this market, when you're worried, and you have a stock that's a point off its 52-week high, we are strictly in a no-prisoners mode. You take that, and you ring the register.'Playtex Products (NYSE: PYX - News): 'I like the cohort. I believe that that kind of consumer-related business is not going to have a slowdown here... But why do you need to be in PYX - a point off its high - when you can be in PG? When you can be in CL? When you can be in DEO, which just reported a great quarter?'Choice Hotels International (NYSE: CHH - News): 'It's a franchiser of hotels ... I don't think I need to go down in the food chain to your name. I've got a bunch of them that I think are cheaper and better, and those are the ones that I want to go with.'
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Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Tuesday's Biggest Stock Gainers

LCAPA, TWX, CBS, MA, PXR, PCLN, SVM, SNDA, TEVA, WYN
Liberty Media (NasdaqGS:LCAPA - News) has agreed to acquire the Atlanta Braves baseball team from Time Warner Inc. (NYSE:TWX - News), according to media reports. The company also agreed to exchange its stake in CBS Corp. (NYSE:CBS - News) for a Green Bay, Wis., television station and $170 million in cash. In the tax-free transaction, Liberty will swap its 7.6 million CBS common shares for a newly created CBS subsidiary that holds the TV station, valued at $64 million, and the cash. The price at which Liberty will exchange its CBS shares will be based upon the average trading price of CBS Class B shares during a specified period prior to the closing.
Mastercard (NYSE:MA - News) was upgraded to overweight from neutral at J.P. Morgan.
Paxar Corp. (NYSE:PXR - News) reported fourth-quarter earnings of $9.5 million, or 23 cents a share, up from a loss of $800,000, or 2 cents a share, in the year-ago period. Excluding certain items, the White Plains, N.Y., maker of retail identification products earned $12.6 million, or 30 cents a share, in the latest quarter. Sales rose in the latest three months to $230.8 million from $206.8 million in the same period a year earlier. The average estimate of analysts polled by Thomson Financial was for a profit of 29 cents a share in the December period. Looking ahead, Paxar said it expects earnings of $1.13 to $1.21 a share in 2007 on sales of between $925 million and $945 million. This view includes restructuring-related charges of between 11 to 15 cents a share. Excluding items, the company sees earnings of $1.24 to $1.36 a share for the year. Wall Street's current consensus estimate is for a profit of $1.33 a share in 2007.
Priceline.com Inc. (NasdaqGS:PCLN - News) reported profit more than doubled on stronger business in Europe. For the quarter ended Dec. 31, the company said profit was $13.2 million, or 33 cents per share, compared to $3.8 million or 9 cents a share a year ago. Sales for the quarter rose 28% to $235.9 million.
ServiceMaster Co. (NYSE:SVM - News) said fourth-quarter earnings rose to $38.9 million, or 13 cents a share, from $27 million, or 9 cents a share, a year earlier. Excluding items, earnings for the quarter ending Dec. 31 would have been 11 cents a share. Revenue increased 7.1% to $770.7 million from last year's $719.6 million. Analysts surveyed by Thomson Financial had been expecting earnings of 10 cents a share and revenue of $767.1 million, on average. The Downers Grove, Ill. lawn care and pest control company said it expects adjusted 2007 earnings of 67 to 68 cents a share, vs. analyst forecasts of 68 cents a share.
Shanda Interactive Entertainment Ltd. (NasdaqGS:SNDA - News) said it swung to net income for the fourth-quarter of 240.3 million renminbi ($31 million), or RMB3.32 (42 cents) per American Depositary Share. During the same period in the prior year, the net loss was RMB538.9 million, or RMB7.58 per ADS.
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NasdaqGS:TEVA - News) said fourth-quarter net income rose 51% as sales increased 63%, citing sales of new products as well as the addition of sales from Ivax. Profit reached $460 million, or 56 cents a share, from $305 million, or 45 cents, in the year-earlier period. The latest quarter's adjusted earnings, eliminating certain tax-related income and certain charges, were 53 cents. A survey of analysts by Thomson Financial produced a consensus estimate of 58 cents a share. Sales rose to $2.28 billion from $1.4 billion. Thomson's survey estimated $2.26 billion.
Wyndham Worldwide Corp. (NYSE:WYN - News) said fourth-quarter net income rose to $92 million, or 48 cents a share, from $91 million, or 45 cents a share. Net revenue rose to $970 million from $861 million. Analysts, on average, expected it to earn 40 cents a share on revenue of $912 million, according to Thomson Financial. For 2007, the hotel operator raised its profit forecast for the year to a range of $1.84 to $2.02 a share, excluding separation and related costs, as well as legacy matters. The prior forecast was a range of $1.77 to $1.95 a share. Revenue for the year is expected to come in at $4.11 billion to $4.26 billion. For the first quarter, Wyndham expects to earn 37 cents to 40 cents a share, excluding items. Analysts polled by Thomson Financial expect it to earn 38 cents a share in the first quarter and $1.87 a share for the year on revenue of $4.14 billion, on average

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