We recently published a list of Jim Cramer Rediscovers Love For Magnificent 7 & Discusses These 11 Stocks In this article, we are going to take a look at where Becton, Dickinson and Company (NYSE:BDX) stands against other stocks that Jim Cramer discusses.
In his recent appearance on CNBC’s Squawk on the Street, Jim Cramer found his love for Magnificent 7 stocks once again. He had grown disillusioned with them after the DeepSeek and tariff turmoil, as in a late April appearance, the CNBC TV host had renamed the stocks. “Yeah that’s gone. Yeah I don’t know it’s not like the Mag 7. . .no we’re done with that, Mag 7, whole thing. Now it’s the Wild Bunch. . . we’re switching, it’s no more, I mean honestly, Wild Bunch was actually a better movie,” he’d said.
This time around, Cramer returned to the Magnificent 7 moniker. “But let me come back with a new thesis. We found out why we liked the Magnificent 7 last night. They do well when things aren’t good. And there’s been a lot of periods where things aren’t good. Suddenly they do well!” according to him.
Cramer also sarcastically commented on President Trump attributing weak economic growth to President Biden. “Does he like Joe Biden?” said Cramer. What was interesting was he said yesterday was Biden’s market. He caught the opening but he didn’t get the close,” he added.
The conversation then shifted to Elon Musk and DOGE. Musk had announced last month that he would spend more time at his car company. Cramer, for his part, wondered why Musk didn’t “go after the Pentagon, Social Security, and Medicare. Why didn’t he go, where was the trillion dollars? What happened to the trillion dollars we were going to save?”
With the latest US weekly jobless claims surging to 241,000, Cramer agreed with BofA’s assessment, which called them a DC recession due to the Trump administration’s layoffs. “Absolutely. And I think that’s right. I’m not hearing anybody, in any of these other companies, [inaudible] listen, we’re gonna have to lay people off,” he outlined.
One interesting material that’s caught Cramer’s attention, which he believes could become a key point between the US and China’s trade relations, is ethane. Commenting on the hydrocarbon, he stated:
“[R]emember when, the future’s plastics? Right, well, they don’t have ethane in China. We have the ethane, they had a tariff on ethane, they took it away . . .yeah but lookout.”
“It’s an emergency move to be able to make things out of, ethane is David a building block, and we have it, they don’t.”
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 May 1st.
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Becton, Dickinson and Company (NYSE:BDX)
Number of Hedge Fund Holders In Q4 2024: 56
Becton, Dickinson and Company (NYSE:BDX) is a healthcare firm that sells catheters, IV connectors, and other associated products. Its shares are down by 25% year-to-date primarily due to a massive 18% drop in May. Becton, Dickinson and Company (NYSE:BDX)’s shares sank after the firm cut its full-year profit guidance due to tariff constraints. Here’s what Cramer said as the shares sank:
“We talk a lot about the good ones. Becton Dickinson today, this is . . .a company I thought was a pretty simple company. They make a lot of different parts, you go to their catalogue for med devices. I know that Starboard had a stake. . .maybe you could get a hold of them . . .but this is a terrible, terrible quarter. And I’m kind of shocked. This was a blocking and tackling business. And it’s almost like it’s falling apart. I don’t know. I’m trying to find out more about it. This is a really bad miss. And I’m quite surprised. When it was 230, 240, I thought it had a real shot to go much higher. And it’s just not good at all.”
Overall, BDX ranks 3rd on our list of stocks that Jim Cramer discusses. While we acknowledge the potential of BDX 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 BDX but that trades at less than 5 times its earnings, check out our report about this cheapest AI stock.
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