In this piece, we will look at the stocks Jim Cramer recently discussed.
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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11. CoreWeave, Inc. (NASDAQ:CRWV)
Number of Hedge Fund Holders In Q4 2024: N/A
CoreWeave, Inc. (NASDAQ:CRWV) is a data center hosting services provider that allows firms to use GPUs and other equipment for AI and other workloads. Since its IPO in March, the shares have gained 10% but they have lost 28% since the Liberation Day tariffs announcement. In his previous comments about CoreWeave, Inc. (NASDAQ:CRWV), Cramer said that he “likes” the stock. Here are his latest thoughts:
“Well how about the fact that Jensen Huang said the whole time they’re buying, they’re ordering, they’re ordering, and people didn’t care what Jensen’s saying. He was out of favor. And then Michael Intrator comes in and says they’re ordering, they’re ordering, what journalist had decided to sabotage this thesis?”
“This just might be their time. Because if they’re short in data space. . .you go to CoreWeave. Michael Intrator.”
10. Harley-Davidson, Inc. (NYSE:HOG)
Number of Hedge Fund Holders In Q4 2024: 23
Harley-Davidson, Inc. (NYSE:HOG) is an iconic American motorcycle manufacturer. Its products mean that the firm operates in a highly cyclical business, which does well in a robust economy. Harley-Davidson, Inc. (NYSE:HOG)’s shares have lost 21% year-to-date and are down by 9.9% since the tariff announcement in April. In his earlier remarks, Cramer has wondered if the stock could bounce back. Here are his latest comments:
“HOG is just terrible. Jeez the sales are bad there.”
