Jim Cramer, host of Mad Money, emphasized on Tuesday that the stock market should be viewed as a long-term path to building wealth.
“An individual stock can change your life. If there’s one overarching theme of How to Make Money in Any Market… It’s that one stock can create tremendous wealth for you, provided that you own it for the long haul. You don’t trade in and out of it, and you let your gains compound. What does that mean in the heat of the bull versus the bear that goes on every day here and the minuscule stuff that you have to think about?”
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Cramer warned against getting distracted by seasonal trends or short-term setbacks. He argued that such thinking misses the bigger picture, since the real story comes from how businesses perform rather than market folklore or daily fluctuations. He described these distractions as sideshows, while the true measure lies in the fundamentals and operations of companies themselves.
“Here’s the bottom line: We’ve been blessed with a tremendous market here, I know that, but it won’t always be. You have to learn to trust the market and recognize that even buying on the worst days possible in the last 40 years has still worked out fine, provided you chose growth stocks with good pedigree. There may never be a stock as incredible as Nvidia, but there are amazing stocks out there that can and will change your lives for the better, but only if you let them.”
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Jim Cramer Was Focused on These 15 Stocks Recently
15. Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE:BBY)
Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 44
Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE:BBY) is one of the stocks Jim Cramer was recently focused on. During the episode, Cramer shared his insights on the company stock, as he commented:
“Now, I wrote How to Make Money in Any Market over a period of two years. In the chapter on dividend stocks, I initially included Stanley Black & Decker and Best Buy as interesting prospects. Now, I think both of these are well-run companies, and they yield 4.5 and 5%, respectively. I took them out, though in the next pass, because unlike the food stocks, which really don’t even need a strong economy to make big money, Best Buy and Stanley Black & Decker actually need strong consumer growth and tariff relief.
That’s just too much of a lift for me. Now, I wouldn’t be surprised if one of these stocks I just mentioned ends up making me look bad and becomes a good stock. I know this because you see, we bought both Stanley and Best Buy for my Charitable Trust, and we were shocked to see them shoot higher immediately on word of rate cuts. We sold a big chunk of those positions up higher, but then subsequently got rid of the rest at just okay prices because we were worried. In retrospect, we got lucky, I think, on the higher prices because I believe that those rallies were simply short squeezes. We definitely aren’t going back into either of those two anytime soon.”
Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE:BBY) sells a wide range of consumer electronics, appliances, entertainment, and lifestyle products, along with services such as delivery, installation, repair, and technical support.
14. United Parcel Service, Inc. (NYSE:UPS)
Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 53
United Parcel Service, Inc. (NYSE:UPS) is one of the stocks Jim Cramer was recently focused on. Cramer highlighted his worry about the company’s high dividend yield. He said:
“Pivot over to the transports, and you see UPS with the 7.76% yield. Management’s repeatedly told us their dividend’s a top priority. Iconic, trusted brand, really one of two in a nice duopoly, but I just can’t go there because that 7.76% yield is what I regard as a total red flag. I’m concerned that a real slowdown would force them to cut the dividend.”
United Parcel Service, Inc. (NYSE:UPS) provides package delivery and logistics solutions, including express and ground shipping, international freight forwarding, customs brokerage, and specialized services. Cramer mentioned the episode during the September 17 episode and said:
“I’m even more concerned about United Parcel with its 7.8% yield. That yield’s too high, may not be sustainable even as management keeps saying otherwise. Fairly or unfairly, when you see that kind of high yield that… this stock market is saying, don’t trust the dividend.”
