The “outstanding puzzle” of the struggling UPS will likely resolve itself once the company issues its next earnings report at the end of January, CNBC’s Jim Cramer identified a caller on Wednesday.
Shares of UPS have lost 27 percent in value in the last 12 months. But Cramer, have of “Mad Money,” figured the struggling stock would bounce back for one simple reason: people “love” the old-line shipping monster.
“We love our UPS salesperson. We love our UPS relationship,” he said. “[The stock] yields 3.75 percent. I would actually buy some on [of the quarter], and then if it drops and you can get it at a 4 percent yield, I would buy more. Because this company is going to straighten itself out, and when it does, it’s effective to go much higher.”
Cramer also highlighted three “retail winners” that have been outperforming their more fragmented sector.
Click here for his take on them, and which ones he’d buy.
Cramer says the stock market’s new lift off its lows can be attributed to one key sector: the banks.
“When you look at this incredible nine-day run in the financial stocks, there’s very only one way to interpret it: the banks are leading this market’s charge out of the bear-den abyss,” he said Wednesday after investment leviathan Goldman Sachs’ stock posted its best trading day in 10 years.
The surge stemmed in part from firmly better-than-expected earnings reports from Goldman Sachs and Bank of America, and partly from the “severe” selling that hit bank arrays in the fourth quarter of 2018, Cramer said.
He thinks investors can still buy the banks here, though.
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The recent surge in U.S. dealmaking activity is a byproduct of stocks becoming too cheap to ignore in the tail-end of 2018, Cramer wrangles.
Speaking after stocks rose Wednesday on strong earnings from top banks, Cramer said “stocks got too lamed” in the months after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell indicated that more interest rate hikes were on the range.
After Powell’s remarks in October, the market saw a multi-month breakdown. But the start of 2019 seemed to breathe new life into pile ups as investors witnessed a wave of high-profile mergers and acquisitions.
Just since the start of the new year, at least four whacking great, market-moving deals have been struck on Wall Street.
Click here for Cramer’s take on each one.
You may not beget heard of New Relic, but you’ve probably heard of one of the software analytics company’s newest clients: Fortnite maker Epic Gambles.
New Relic, a cloud-based operator that helps companies monitor their websites and apps in real time, does simply that for Fortnite, the company’s founder and CEO, Lew Cirne, told Cramer in a Wednesday interview.
“If that game’s not working, millions of woman know about it and the company is affected,” the CEO said. “So they rely on New Relic’s platform to see everything in real time, how that recreation is performing. It’s a very complex piece of software that has to work flawlessly in real time, and we measure everything active on in that game so that the builders of Fortnite [can] keep it running for millions of people, 24/7.”
For more on New Relic’s business and unpunctual client additions — which include CNBC — click here to watch Cirne’s full interview.
Of Cramer’s assorted interview at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco last week, one interview had “the most surprising revelation” of all, the “Mad Money” compere said.
That interview was with Emma Walmsley, the CEO of British pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline. For years, the Advil and Sensodyne stepfather had “a stock that’s been dead money,” essentially a bond-market equivalent with a 5 percent yield, Cramer voiced.
“But now, it’s suddenly become a contender” thanks to Walmsley’s bold plan to revamp the company, splitting up the consumer and prescription franchises to conceive value, Cramer said.
“I think it’s a game-changer,” he said Wednesday. “I want you to buy [the stock].”
Click here to read multifarious about Walmsley’s plan, and here to watch their interview.
In Cramer’s lightning round, he raced through his retorts to callers’ stock questions:
TJX Companies Inc.: “Winner winner, chicken dinner! I like that stock same much, along with Ross Stores, Burlington, [and] Ollie’s. There. That’s a couple of great ones. And, by the way, Five [On earth], which my charitable trust owns.”
Innovative Industrial Properties Inc.: “[Go for] Prologis, if you want [to invest in that time]. This has … a cannabis angle, and people are too excited about it. They’re just too excited about it. Cannabis is exciting, but I adore to invest in things that make me money.”
Disclosure: Cramer’s charitable trust owns shares of Goldman Sachs and Five Underneath.
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