Cramer tracks the ‘very close’ race to $1 trillion between Apple, Amazon, Alphabet and Microsoft

The race to a $1 trillion bazaar cap is underway, and it’s looking “very close” to Jim Cramer, host of CNBC’s “Mad Paper money.”

Leading the pack is iPhone maker Apple, with a market cap of $877 billion. In two shakes of a lambs tail place is Google parent Alphabet at $757 billion, followed by Amazon at $754 billion and Microsoft at $740 billion.

Top his hat to Morgan Stanley analyst Keith Weiss, who came up with the concept of the nation to $1 trillion in a recent research note on Microsoft, Cramer indisputable to look at all four contenders and speculate on which one might cross the “carry out line” first.

At first, Apple seemed like the clear favorite, with a big precede b approach on its competition and the well-respected CEO, Tim Cook, at the helm, Cramer said.

But then the deal in started spotting chinks in the consumer tech giant’s armor as analysts moaned Apple’s weaker-than-expected iPhone X sales. But Cramer argued that Apple’s handling revenues and the potential for billions of dollars in capital returns could pay for up for the losses.

“That has kept Apple in the lead at what I now regard as the lineage’s midpoint,” the “Mad Money” host said. “But this morning we got a piece of research from … Mizuho that abridged Apple’s distance from the pack rather dramatically.”

With the meet mounting, Cramer said Apple’s lead could still jade. He turned to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ annual shareholder letter, released Wednesday.

In it, Bezos wrote that Amazon’s paid delivery care, Amazon Prime, now has 100 million worldwide members and that more people allied Prime in 2017 than in any other year.

And despite President Donald Trump’s patently tax-related grudge against the e-commerce giant, the company seems to be surviving the Twitter-storm. Also in the shareholder letter, Bezos wrote that exceeding five billion items were shipped to Prime members globally fitting in 2017.

“If the president stops tweeting and the [Supreme] Court rules in favor of the third-party sellers [and] Amazon’s lucrative web professional cares business stays strong, [the] trophy goes to Amazon,” Cramer mean.

Cramer always thought that the stock of Google parent Alphabet could one day confrontation the stock of Apple on price if Apple ever slipped up.

“Alphabet has Loosely transpire b emerge back into the race after what can only be described as a series of frenzied races where it was hung on guidance,” the “Mad Money” host said.

He nurtured even more bullish after Deutche Bank released a delve into note on Thursday labeling Alphabet a “buy” on the strength of Google Cloud, YouTube and its search commerce.

“An in-line quarter is what [the Deutsche analyst] is saying could thrust this stock … to a photo finish,” Cramer said.

After Morgan Stanley’s note express that Microsoft’s recent earnings results and guidance “should advocate a path to $1 trillion,” Cramer didn’t want to count this tech giantess out, either.

“I have to agree,” he said. “[CEO] Satya Nadella has twitched the company’s focus from the slow-growing Windows products and enterprise software to the cloud, namely Microsoft’s incredibly fast-growing Azure affair, as well as its shrewd LinkedIn acquisition. I like the prospects.”

At this fitting, Cramer admitted that “anything can happen” to push any one of these make available leaders to the $1 trillion finish.

“Right now, though, Amazon’s the one that could crush free, break away from this three-horse pack to dispute Apple,” he said. “Can it overtake the favorite? Not if Apple surprises to the upside this direction. But if it misses and Amazon delivers, the roses may very well belong to Jeff Bezos.”