Jim Cramer’s Biggest Winners to Buy: Top 5 AI & Other Stocks He Got Right in 2026

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1. Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC)

Number of Hedge Fund Holdings in Q3 2025: 81

Number of Hedge Fund Holdings in Q1 2026: 112

Performance Since Cramer’s Remarks: 205%

Date/Month of Cramer’s Remarks: January 5th, 2026

Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) has been one of the hottest stocks of 2026. It’s also a stock that Cramer has been optimistic about for more than a year. The CNBC TV host shifted his opinion about the firm after its current CEO, Lip-Bu Tan, took over. Before Tan, the CNBC TV host asserted on multiple occasions that Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) needed to fix its balance sheet. With Tan now fixing the balance sheet and speeding up development of key technologies such as packaging, Cramer is nothing short of excited about Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC). Here is what he said about the firm in January on Mad Money:

“Rounding out the Nasdaq-100 top 10 is the 84% gain from Intel. After years of underperformance, Intel’s showing signs of life under this terrific new CEO by the name of Lip-Bu Tan. And the stock’s had a major comeback in the back half of the year after the Trump administration invested almost $9 billion in the business and NVIDIA invested another $5 billion a month later. These cash injections help Intel clean up its balance sheet. It’ll take a long time to truly turn this company around, but I am confident it is indeed headed in the right direction.”

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