We recently published Jim Cramer’s Surprised About US Travel As He Discusses These 18 Stocks. In this article, we are going to take a look at where International Business Machines Corporation (NYSE:IBM) stands against other stocks that Jim Cramer discussed.
In a recent appearance on CNBC’s Squawk on the Street, Jim Cramer commented on the growing amount of stock buybacks and how the buybacks during April-May were the third best historically of the year. “Well, I’ll tell ya, the banks are the ones that are going to do it. They’re gonna start it and the banks have an appetite for their stock that is crazy,” he said.
Cramer also commented on President Trump’s senior counselor for trade and manufacturing, Peter Navarro. Navarro is an ardent believer in the trade imbalance that the US faces abroad and Cramer agrees with the assessment. “Well, Peter’s got, strong views. Peter’s a person with strong views,” according to Cramer.
Despite the fact that markets were roiled in April due to the President’s tariff announcements, when his co-host remarked that Navarro might not have the President’s ear, Cramer replied: “Well if that’s the case, death by China is winning right now. And death by China is Navarro.”
Another news bite that was brought up on the show was the decline in foreign arrivals in the US and the President saying the decline in foreign arrivals wasn’t a big deal. Cramer agrees with Trump as he said:
“So far, not. I think that the dollar being cheap for the first time in our lifetime is gonna make people. . .but when you listen to Proctor, you’re very conscious of the fact that the dollar’s weak and IBM and I think that people in the end, they’ll be excited. Excited to come to a place where the dollar’s finally not crushing them. And that does matter.”
However, he added:
“Well look, it’s not, obviously I think that there’s issues involving our country and how people view us and, look, you don’t need me to tell which way the wind blows. But I would have thought there would have been more weakness in travel. I’m just surprised that it’s just not bad.”
Our Methodology
To make our list of the stocks that Jim Cramer talked about, we listed down the stocks he mentioned during CNBC’s Squawk on the Street aired on April 24th.
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International Business Machines Corporation (NYSE:IBM)
Number of Hedge Fund Holders In Q4 2024: 60
International Business Machines Corporation (NYSE:IBM) is one of the oldest and largest computing companies in the world. It is an enterprise computing firm that provides hardware and software services to businesses. International Business Machines Corporation (NYSE:IBM)’s shares have gained 5.7% year-to-date, which is in sharp comparison to the stock price performance of big tech stocks. It has benefited from positive earnings tailwinds, but the shares dipped by 6.6% in April after the firm’s software business missed analyst estimates. Here’s what Cramer said about International Business Machines Corporation (NYSE:IBM):
[IBM on contracts cut by DOGE] “They’re trying to stress, look, it could be tailwind coming forward, but they’re not really going for it. Look now I want to take the other side of the trade of this. This is their first quarter and they tend not to guide up. There was a little deceleration in Red Hat, which is this great acquisition that they made a few years ago. But I would tell you, I’m a free cash flow guy when it comes to IBM. And this was like the best free cash flow first quarter and, I think Arvind Krishna’s done a great job. David, you know that they still do all the banks in this country. I mean they have never lost this business. And they have a new mainframe coming out. So there are many reasons why you want to buy the weakness here in IBM.”
“And I’ll tell you. IBM has become one of the steadiest players, maybe I don’t want to leave it because it’s been so consistent. But this is I think an overreaction, what I’m saying. I don’t think it’s a, it wasn’t a great quarter, it was good. . .”
Overall, IBM ranks 16th on our list of stocks that Jim Cramer discussed. While we acknowledge the potential of IBM as an investment, our conviction lies in the belief that some AI stocks hold greater promise for delivering higher returns and doing so within a shorter time frame. There is an AI stock that went up since the beginning of 2025, while popular AI stocks lost around 25%. If you are looking for an AI stock that is more promising than IBM but that trades at less than 5 times its earnings, check out our report about this cheapest AI stock.
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