Jim Cramer Stock Portfolio: Top 10 Stock Picks

7. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)

Number of Hedge Funds: 169

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) is one of the best tech stocks to buy, according to Jim Cramer. He’s consistently repeated his “own it, don’t trade it” mantra for the iPhone maker, even when the market was uncertain about Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)’s AI strategy. In January, Cramer criticized the market pessimism about the company once again, based on his conversations with Eddy Cue, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)’s senior vice president of Services. Apple ranks seventh in our Jim Cramer stock portfolio compilation.

“Services are incredibly strong, much stronger than people expect,” Cramer said. “All the people who thought that that was not the case are dead wrong. I think the numbers would come up. They can’t do that yet.”

YCG Investments stated the following regarding Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) in its fourth quarter 2025 investor letter:

“This playbook of buying more of what is cyclically not working has paid off many times in the past, with the most recent example being our trimming during the April tariff sell off of Verisk (a defensive name that was up year-to-date at the time) to buy Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) Inc. (a great business in which we had long-term confidence that was down sharply on tariff fears). Fast forwarding to this past quarter, Apple was now up for the year while Verisk was down substantially. This reversal occurred despite, in our opinion, no significant change to their long-term prospects. Therefore, we took advantage of the volatility again, trimming Apple and buying more Verisk.”