7 Stocks Highlighted by Jim Cramer in the Lightning Round

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1. Salesforce, Inc. (NYSE:CRM)

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Salesforce, Inc. (NYSE:CRM) is one of the stocks highlighted by Jim Cramer in the lightning round. A caller noted that the stock never rebounded after going down in April like other stocks. Cramer commented:

“Okay, so Salesforce is a little tough right now because right now, the enterprise software companies are all coming down. I have not been recommending the stock hard. I want to see what happens with the quarter. I wish I could be more definite, but sometimes it’s better just to say I don’t have a handle on it.”

Salesforce, Inc. (NYSE:CRM) offers CRM technology and a suite of AI-powered platforms and tools, including Agentforce, Data Cloud, Slack, Tableau, and field service solutions to improve customer engagement, analytics, and business productivity. In an April episode, Cramer mentioned the best-performing stocks of the last 20 years and mentioned the company stock. He said:

“Next, in 14th place is one of my all-time favorites, and that’s Salesforce, up 6,738%. This company started as a customer relations management software play, basically invented the cloud software strategy, and now is one of the largest and most successful enterprise software companies on the planet. Salesforce now offers an entire suite of products spanning sales, marketing, customer service, and data analytics. And it always seems to be at the leading edge of whatever big trend is happening in software, including right now with their Agentic platform that harnesses AI, okay, kind of like a a robot that you would speak to when you’re trying to figure out exactly who you want to get to in a company.

More impressive, the stock still made the list even though it’s down 28% from its highs in December. We just had Salesforce co-founder and CEO Marc Benioff on the show last week. He sounded as confident as ever. I say you doubt this man at your own peril. He did the same thing in the fall of 2008 when the financial crisis was obliterating the stock market. That turned out to be an incredible buying opportunity. I know some of you think I’ve been sticking around too long on this company. I think its Agentforce program could be dramatically understated for the growth prospects it’s going to bring the company. It could blow out the numbers, okay? I’m not sure which quarter’s going to do that, but I swear by this Agentic. It makes too much sense. Don’t leave the stock.”

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