Jim Cramer, the host of Mad Money, on Monday said that after a year of poor performance, the Magnificent Seven no longer live up to their reputation as the market’s top-performing stocks.
A lot of people don’t know this, but I used to write obituaries for a living. It’s a sad job as you can imagine. You want to be sure you get it right, and if you can, you need a picture. Always the picture. Well, here’s the picture. It’s of the Magnificent Seven, and I’m pronouncing it dead tonight. Why? Because the grouping no longer makes sense… A bunch of large-cap stocks that don’t have much to do with each other and are going in very different directions off of some really lousy performance over the last year. And that’s what I did today, looked at them year-over-year.
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Cramer explained that the Magnificent Seven was never strictly about seven specific large-cap stocks. He said, “It was always about companies with fantastic stock performance,” and added that it was about “companies that made you a ton of money if you invested in them.” He noted that these stocks no longer achieve that goal. He said that when looked at as a group, they essentially do nothing anymore.
So I’m writing the obituary. Oh, and reports of the death of the Seven, they aren’t premature, they are late. They are finished. And if you use the term, you are warned. The Seven is now dead to me.
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Jim Cramer Shared His Opinion on These 14 Stocks
14. Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT)
Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 312
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) is one of the stocks Jim Cramer shared his opinion on. Cramer called the company the “least Magnificent of the Seven,” as he commented:
And then there’s Microsoft. Here’s the least Magnificent of the Seven. When I go over that convoluted conference call that they just did, I can’t tell whether they understood their stock would get obliterated. Maybe they thought it was going to go up. Did they know that they lost the AI race? Were they aware that they weren’t making the playoffs? Did anyone comprehend what they were even saying, including them? What the heck’s with OpenAI? Are they partners? Are they friends? Are they frenemies? Are they enemies? Oh, and Copilot? Did they really think that 15 million paid users was a lot of users? You know what? I actually felt sorry for Microsoft. Not too sorry though, because anyone who’s forced to be a Microsoft user is so tired of Windows jamming unwanted updates down your throat. It’s very hard to feel much sympathy.
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) develops software, hardware, and cloud-based solutions. The company provides products like Windows, Azure, Office, LinkedIn, and Xbox.
13. Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META)
Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 273
Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META) is one of the stocks Jim Cramer shared his opinion on. Cramer highlighted the company’s lack of promotion, as he remarked:
Meta… [had] a terrific quarter, really, but all I hear about is how it’s just an advertising company with a pair of Ray-Bans. They’d never do anything to defend or promote their stock. I mean, like nothing. They don’t even seem to care. Well, what can I say? That’s true.
Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META) develops technologies and applications that connect people through social networking and messaging. The company’s portfolio includes Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, Threads, and products in virtual and augmented reality. Cramer mentioned the stock during the January 29 episode and said:
… It’s hard to believe that Meta, which had been written off as a company that spends way too much on AI just last quarter, could rally more than 10% today as those investments paid off in spades. Last quarter, Meta had been the scissors. This time, it’s the rock… Let’s speak truth right here, right now. I listen to CEOs constantly. I read their words, I hear their calls, I talk to them. And until last night, I hadn’t heard a single executive who actually uses AI, not participates in the making of it, but use it as an actual client state unequivocally, just with no caveats, that AI is the greatest force multiplier, that it can make its business fortunes, that it’s accelerating the sales and earnings, that AI is changing the company’s fortunes in a way that is just extraordinary.
And last night, it finally happened, and it is Meta. Leave it to Mark Zuckerberg from Meta to say that AI has allowed his company to offer the greatest advertising vehicle in the world aimed at his user base. Oh, by the way, it is just 3.5 billion… daily active users. It’s like half the people in the world, for heaven’s sake, or like, close to it.
This Meta knows everything about you… It could get you to buy something you never thought about. Zuckerberg, where is he? Is he at his desk?… No, he’s in your cerebral cortex…. He’s in your cell. He’s in your darn vagus nerve, and his company will present your brain with exactly what you want. You’ll watch the darned accelerated computing make sure of that because the video’s better and cleaner than ever, and you will buy what they advertise because generative AI is finally that powerful. No more scissors. This one is a rock for certain. It’s not done going higher.
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