Jim Cramer’s Biggest Winners to Buy: Top 20 AI & Other Stocks He Got Right in 2026

15. Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS)

Number of Hedge Fund Holdings in Q3 2025: 69

Number of Hedge Fund Holdings in Q1 2026: 80

Performance Since Cramer’s Remarks: 11.9%

Date/Month of Cramer’s Remarks: January 15th, 2026

Investment bank Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) is another stock that Jim Cramer has frequently discussed in 2026. The shares are up by 48% over the past year and by 17.6% year-to-date. Along with Cramer, several analysts have also discussed Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) this year. For instance, Bank of America raised the share price target to $225 from $220 and kept a Buy rating on the shares on April 16th. The bank remarked that it was optimistic that the remarks made by Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS)’s during its latest earnings call would help with earnings and capital return growth. The investment bank’s first quarter earnings saw it post $20.5 billion in net revenue and $5.6 billion in net income, which led its $3.43 in earnings per share to beat analyst estimates. Here is what Cramer said about Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) in January in his morning appearance:

“You know Ted is, Ted Pick is doing a great job. Remember my thesis, they’ve been taken down? Well because people just say, you know what, this group is not, these aren’t semis, this is not AI, it’s not semiconductors, in the end, it’s finance and these stocks are up 35%. “Look I’m going to go against the market, I think the market’s wrong on this, I think the market’s trying to figure out, has it moved too much? And I think Ted Pick has reinvented this company, I got to salute him. . .but this Morgan Stanley model’s a good one, David, it’s very sticky, it’s much less episodic, it deserves a much higher price-to-earnings multiple.”