Tuesday, 04/29/08
Posted 04/29/08,  10:51 pm ET

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Today's date:  Tuesday, 04/29/08

  Dow Jones: 12,831   -  39
  NASDAQ:   2,426    + 1
  S&P 500:   1,390    -  5
 
 
 
 
 
First Segment
 
Final Segment 1 Title: 'Finger Lickin' Good'

CEO Interview:
David Novak, CEO

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Featured Stock(s): Yum! Brands Inc. (YUM)

See YUM's official website here.

See the Yahoo! Finance profile for YUM here.



See Opening Segment 2, below...

 
After this segment, you can see Jim's Lightning Round picks here...

        
Jim's Comments BEFORE the interview:      It's food night on Mad Money! It's where I'm trying figure out some of the riddles... within the food industry...

For example, if commodity costs are so out of control, like everybody says... If the raw ingredients for pizza are skyrocketing... If Taco meat is so darn expensive... If chicken keeps going up in price, then how the heck can Yum! Brands Inc. (YUM), which owns KFC, Taco Bell and, yes, Pizza Hut... be so close to its 52-week high?...

YUM closed today at $40.88. Its 52-week high is $41.18. Input costs are supposed to be killing them...

The restaurant stocks that are mostly domestic... they've been stinkin' up the joint, but YUM is pants-ing everybody! Last week, YUM reported a better-than-expected quarter. It gave us 42 cents per share. Every single short seller and his mother was crushed by this, because YUM beat the Street's consensus by 2 cents.

The stock's been a gigantic winner over the years... It's up 65% since I recommended it on October 11th of 2005, at $24 bucks...

The reason I think YUM is working is that it's incredibly run, and it's an international growth story. KFC, for example, has become hugely popular in China... and YUM's Chinese business is growing at a sizzling 40%... growth that need I say is finger lickin' good!

When you've got a situation like this, where the company is doing so well, when it doesn't seem like it should be able to... you're probably scratching your head...

Not me! I'm talking to the CEO. I want to find out why it's working... Right now, we're going to my favorite food executive in the world! I'm going to YUM's CEO, David Novak... a guy who is so bankable that, everytime the bears come out, we say, look out bears... you're going to get shot!

We heard from him on September 20th of 2007. YUM is up 20% since then... And, tonight, I'm bringing David Novak back, to explain how YUM is thriving in an environment where the Art Cashin's of the world are telling me it's an airline stock, for heaven's sake! Mr. Novak... welcome back to Mad Money!
      

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Jim's Comments AFTER the interview:      Guys... again, get with the program... You can fret about raw input costs, you can say no one can make any money in this business... Or you can be in YUM with 3,000 restaurants in China, and 18,000 in the U.S. If you really think that they've saturated China with 3,000 restaurants, then you should just be out of this market. Me? I want to be in YUM! Buy, buy, buy!

 

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Stock Snapshots - Includes all stocks mentioned above

 

 

Jim
Cramer's
rating on
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SYMBOL

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price
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Opening
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Full Company Name/Comments
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YUM

40.88

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Yum! Brands Inc. (YUM)

         

 

 



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Second Segment
 
Final Segment 2 Title: 'Parker & Ride?'

CEO Interview:
Don Washkewicz, CEO

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Featured Stock(s): Parker Hannifin (PH)

See PH's official website here.

See the Yahoo! Finance profile for PH here.

 
After this segment, you can see Jim's Lightning Round picks here...

        
Jim's Comments BEFORE the interview:         While everyone else is worried about what the Fed will do tomorrow, or lousy consumer confidence, or the high home foreclosure rate, I want to direct your attention to something else...

Hey, how about something positive?... The fact that America has, once again, become the greatest manufacturing nation on earth, and one of the cheapest. The first courtesy of the best engineering know how in the world... yes, we have it. And the second, because of the weak dollar, which I cheer.

This week's dedicated to the best manufacturing stocks in America... the ones that are exporting like crazy, blowing away the numbers, making us proud...

I realized yesterday... that these stocks have become, not metal benders, but new technology stocks... The manufacturers... that's technology! These are companies with double-digit organic growth that are making real things... real necessities that the rest of the world is buying, because we make them better and cheaper!... not just to refine and improve luxuries, for heaven's sake... That's what most tech companies that we trade everyday really do. They've lost their way!

Now, today I want to introduce you to another great American manufacturer/new technology company, and it's Parker Hannifin (PH)...

Long, long, long a Cramer-fave, this is the kind of dirty industrial stock that's supposed to be flat on its back, at it's weakest right now, as America is in a recession. But PH's industrial business - making up 76% of its revenue - is a real ROW-er... 55% of its sales coming from the rest of the world.

PH's industrial business, which is a gem, is growing its sales at a 32% clip internationally. You've got a business with incredible organic growth... 25% increase in earnings. That's why this company works, even though America is in the doghouse... although PH is so good, they managed to eek out a 4% sales growth in North America in the last quarter.

This company, like Eaton (ETN), has reinvented itself, under the amazing stewardship of Don Washkewicz.  But, just like with ETN...  Washkewicz gets no respect for delivering what they do... the new technology that's levered to the strength of the global economy.

We need to understand that, it doesn't have to do with the silicon valley to get a higher multiple...  It can stay in Cleveland.  The Street's just not bullish enough with this one.  16 analysts who cover this stock...  Only 4 say it's a buy... 12 call it a hold.   These guys have got to wake up!   Not only that, people are shorting the stock... it's got a high short interest.  Those people are morons! 

The shorts don't understand where PH fits in the new global economy.  We do at Mad Money.  We know that a company like PH... that has good earnings, and has a great investment thesis... and trades at 12x earnings... I mean, c'mon... 19% long-term growth, incredible dividend record, and buys stock back aggressively...  Isn't this what we're looking for?  It's one of the top five dividend boosters 51 straight years. 

How does the company do it?  What's the future?  Let's check with Don...
 

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Jim's Comments AFTER the interview:      It is so important to get our viewers to be re-oriented, because it's quite an amazing thing to have the cheapest and best, made in America, but also have incredibly low multiples... Your company trades the way tech did in the 1980s, before people realized that tech was the way of the future. I hope one day, you're stock isn't as cheap as it is, but I hope everybody on Mad Money are in PH for the big run. Guys, Eaton (ETN), PH... all week. These are the companies that are new tech, low multiple, best manufacturers in the world, and the cheapest. Stop it with the Sun Microsystems (JAVA) and the Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)! Buy some Parker Hannifin (PH)!

 

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Stock Snapshots - Includes all stocks mentioned above

 

 

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)


PH

78.87

na

Parker Hannifin (PH)

         

 

 

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