Friday, 05/16/08
Posted 05/18/08,  1:57 pm ET

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Today's date:  Friday, 05/16/08

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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)

DBD

40.21

na

Diebold Inc. (DBD)

DBD -  United Technologies (UTX) made that bid (for DBD), and that means you've got to sell...  Sell, sell, sell!...  Just like Yahoo! (YHOO)...  We are not arbitragers on this show...  In other words, once we get a big, we take it off the table, we ring the register... and then we try to find the next one...  I want you to sell DBD on Monday morning. 

HBI

36.20

na

Hanesbrands Inc. (HBI)

HBI -  Remarkable turnaround company... It's interesting, because we used to like Gildan Activewear Inc. (GIL).  I like HBI more.  This is a remarkable story... I bet you that
Warren Buffett, who has that Fruit of the Loom brand, wishes he had HBI.  I think that this company is a good company in this environment.  Who knows how well it could do in an environment, where the consumer is doing better?  So I am going to recommend the stock.

POT

207.00

na

Potash (POT)

POT -  The only reason why corn-based ethanol may fall out of favor, and it hasn't, I think yet... because we still haven't had any presidential candidate say that it's bad... is that other ones are better.  The reason why Brazil is energy self-sufficient is that they use the sugar crop (i.e., sugar-based ethanol)...  The soybean crop would do fine... Under either scenario, POT would do great, but it's not just renewable energy.  POT is the way to be able to get more out of an acre and, at a time of world famine, POT resonates with me.  POT, MOS, and AGU... We've been behind these for a long time, and we're not backing down...

MOS

129.66

na

Mosaic (MOS)

See POT comments above for:
MOS

AGU

89.64

na

Agrium (AGU)

See POT comments above for:
AGU

GVA

36.95

na

Granite Construction Inc. (GVA)

GVA -  You sell that sucker!  That company is involved with the infrastructure in California...  You had a little spike up from $26...  I think you ring the register... Sell, sell, sell!...  I don't trust that company.  I see that there's still a decline in California.  It has too much California exposure.  Let's move on...  

RHT

22.63

na

Red Hat Inc. (RHT)

RHT -  Oh boy... This is just such a hard one... It's just such a hard name.  I have never traded it well, and I have never called it well...  So, you know what I have to do? Sometimes, you have stocks on your restricted list.  This and Netflix, Inc. (NFLX) are on my restricted list...  I am restricted from making on this or NFLX... Don't buy, don't buy...  I just have never been right.  Why not come out and say I've never been right on RHT.  You could do better, if you do your homework.  I am just saying, I don't have the call... and I'm sorry.  I never like to punt like that, but I have to.

NFLX

31.66

na

Netflix, Inc. (NFLX)

See RHT comments above for:
NFLX

FTE

32.03

na

France Telecom (FTE)

FTE -  I like that yield, my friend.  I don't think you can go wrong with a 5% yield, with a growth country like France.  I think that company's pretty good.  I would want to hold onto that.  I like it more than Vodafone (VOD) up here.

VOD

32.82

na

Vodafone Group plc (VOD)

See FTE comments above for:
VOD

CPST

3.48

na

Capstone Turbine Corp. (CPST)

CPST -  Making a comeback... You know, I think it's an interesting spec... I thought about making it for my Speculative Friday, but it's been too much...  but I think you've got a good spec there... (buzzer sounds)... 

XOM

92.67

na

Exxon Mobil (XOM)

XOM -  XOM's fine...  XOM's fine...  Is it my favorite oil?  No...  I like ConocoPhillips (COP*) more, of the integrateds... I like Occidental (OXY) more... but I am never going to tell people, in an environment, where oil's at $126 (a barrel price), to give up on XOM... and congratulations to that (XOM) CEO to show up on the Today Show.  That was a rough thing to do.  He should be congratulated...

COP*

91.98

na

ConocoPhillips (COP*)

See XOM comments above for:
COP*

OXY

94.99

na

Occidental Petroleum Corp. (OXY)

See XOM comments above for:
OXY

GFA

44.17

na

Gafisa S.A. (GFA)

GFA -  Yes... I want you to come back in.  Construction in Brazil is on fire.  The whole country's debt rating is getting better.  I think there's tremendous expansion... I am recommending a lot of Brazilian stocks.  Last night, I recommended Chile.  I think Brazil is the most investable country on Earth right now, next to - and this is a change in posture - the United States, which is really starting to rock...

       

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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 bought at this point.

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.
 

 
Definitions of key phrases used by Jim, known as "Cramerisms":

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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