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 commented on the supply chain disruption that firms were facing and planning for in the wake of President Trump’s tariffs. “I think that this was the week where people said I better have an alternative supply chain, I just have to. Wherever it is, which is going to hurt the gross margins,” Cramer said.
Cramer also linked the current supply chain disruptions to the one that businesses faced during the coronavirus pandemic. Cramer mentioned an unnamed CEO who had prepared for the current disruption by learning lessons from COVID. According to Cramer:
“I’m speaking to a major CEO, at a major tech company who said, do you think that we didn’t learn anything from COVID? COVID was a total shutdown [in] China and we learned to move away from China. And China misjudged what we learned during COVID.”
The conversation then shifted to President Trump’s negotiations with America’s trading partners. While most media attention has focused on China, he mentioned negotiations with Japan and South Korea. Starting with Japan, Cramer outlined:
“I was talking to someone who has been in on the Japanese negotiations. And I asked for color. And he said, they’re color-full. But that someone’s playing very hardball, in our country, and I presume, that someone is, obviously our President. And I said, does he know that you are our friends, and he just didn’t respond. I thought it was interesting.”
As for Korea, he believes that the country is the Trump administration’s favorite due to its already sizable manufacturing presence in the US. Cramer shared:
“My answer on Korea is, that. . . they are loved. . . Okay, so Korea builds plants here right, and they are not the plants like the Germans they are not assembly plants, they make everything here, so they are brought up, constantly as the paradigm, like why can’t you guys be like Korea? Where all the intellectual property is made here. And I think it’s rather amazing. . .I brought them up as being why are they getting a free ride to some people? And they said no, there’s no free ride, they actually listened to what we wanted.”
Of course, since China is the President’s first target when it comes to negotiations, it was unsurprising that the country came up. Cramer isn’t a fan of China. What amazed Cramer was Hayman Capital Management founder and CIO, Kyle Bass’s comments where he outlined “one country lies, one country doesn’t. . .China lies. Look I find these talks unfathomable. I don’t see any progress.”
As for who has the cards in the negotiations between the US and China, Cramer said: “Well, that’s the problem. We don’t know.”
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 25th.
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10. The Procter & Gamble Company (NYSE:PG)
Number of Hedge Fund Holders In Q4 2024: 79
The Procter & Gamble Company (NYSE:PG) is a consumer goods company whose shares have taken a beating from tariff announcements. After the Liberation Day announcements, the shares dipped by 8% over the course of the next couple of days. Since then, they have gained a modest 2%. In his previous remarks about the firm, Cramer commented that firms like The Procter & Gamble Company (NYSE:PG) benefit from tariff uncertainty as they have pricing power. Here are his latest thoughts:
“Proctor has way too much China.”
“Proctor finally bottoming.”
9. Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ:CMCSA)
Number of Hedge Fund Holders In Q4 2024: 80
Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ:CMCSA) is one of the biggest media and entertainment companies in America. Its scale and roots in legacy media haven’t been kind to the firm’s shares. Over the past year and year-to-date, Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ:CMCSA)’s shares have lost 13% and 9%, respectively. Cramer’s previous remarks for the firm that also owns his TV channel CNBC were in February. Back then, he lamented Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ:CMCSA)’s low P/E ratio which he said was the 9th lowest in the S&P 500. The low P/E continues to plague Cramer’s mind:
“Okay so, I’m just gonna go there. Comcast sells 7.8 time forward earnings. So you have to go very far to find companies with that low multiple. Their multiple is lower than Ford Motor, okay. Their multiple is, only GM, that I have found is a lower multiple. So what do you make of that?”
“. . .it’s 4% yield. Again, the top, the bottom ten percent. No, the bottom ten of the S&P [in terms of the multiple]. With a very good company.”
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