What Happened After Jim Cramer Talked About These 13 Stocks

1. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)

Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 166

In that older episode, Jim Cramer discussed Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) by contrasting its investor base with Tesla. At the time, Cramer was cautiously optimistic about Apple’s future, even if near-term iPhone sales disappointed. Here’s his full analysis:

“If you just look at iPhone sales, we’ll most likely get a disappointment and a statement about further weakness. […]  Still, I think the big institutions are looking to buy Apple even if the estimate cuts because they’re looking forward to those two events [Developer’s conference in June and the launch of a new iPhone in September] but I expect their interest will remain tepid unless the company can announce their growth in the rest of the world is accelerating faster than their business in China is shrinking. […]

Apple does make a lot of money; it just doesn’t grow as fast as we’d like. Some people say there’s no growth at all […] But those institutions who own Apple would never let the stock fall that low. They find some way to justify paying more than that price.”

Worst-case scenario Apple? You can buy Apple at $160 and then scale in. I would do it every five points, getting bigger as you approach the $130s. You know what, it’s always good to know the parameters of a stock; the stock that you advocate owning, and not trading.”

The iPhone maker’s stock price has risen by 22.59% since that episode aired last year.

More recently, Cramer is advising his viewers about the macroeconomic risks that Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) is facing due to President Trump’s trade war with China. Here’s what he said on the 17^th of April:

“I just think that if you’re one of these, you’re gonna write a check, if the Justice Department allows you, to Apple and say, listen I want to be the only provider. […]

“Okay here’s what I’ve said about Apple. They’re spending 500 billion which gives them absolutely nothing other than the right to be able to build here in the United States which is the same thing that NVIDIA did. I will tell you this. I think that the stay [tariff pause] is going to turn out to be chimerical. I think it’s going to be chimerical. Because they’re so. . .mercurial and arbitrary there I think, and nothing means anything. They can say, well I just think they’re giving them a stay. You know, Lutnick comes out. If you remember the, the cadence, they get the stay on Friday, then Lutnick comes on Sunday talk shows and basically says well that means nothing. You know so I come back and I say, well what certainty do I have?”

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