Jim Cramer’s Mad Money – April 13, 2005

Disclaimer: This is my interpretation of Cramer’s comments, the show goes by quickly so I try and catch as many key words as possible for each pick.

Mad Money April 12 will find its way here this weekend, if not sooner - I'll try my best to get these up day of but no promises. The key here is the testing of the picks, not necessarily the timing right off the bat.

AAPL – Earnings look alright but concerned about his pick of the week being down a percent when iPod sales didn’t exceed 5.6 million estimate and hit 6 million. Wait for the conference call to find out what is going on for sure.

Lightning Round:

Symbol Name Comments
DRI - DARDEN RESTAURANT - Think the Darden turn is for real, admits that he likes Red Lobster
SYK - STRYKER CP - Get into ZMH which is in the same business
IACI - IAC/INTERACTIVE - HOLD - Splitting into two different companies
CELG - CELGENE CP - Dealing with the company on a soap-box derby sponsorship so take this with a grain of salt… he likes the stock
SCH - CHARLES SCHWAB IN - Cheap at $10 and going to get cheaper - Get Etrade (ET) instead
CHK - CHESAPEAKE ENERGY - BUY - Insiders bought at TON at 21 & 22 - reiterate the buy at 19 here
EENC - ENTERRA EN TR - Solid
VLO - VALERO ENERGY CP - BUY - Said it would bottom here, need to stick with it - inexpensive
MXIM - MAXIM INTEGRATED - Come on.
DEO - DIAGEO PLC ADS NE - Good liquor brands, like the stock, lots of things going on with acquisitions
UTX - UNITED TECH - Cheap but $100 price may cause stock to drift down just because its "expensive", want to buy it - great management
HBAN - HUNTINGTON BCSHS - Not as good as they used to be - get PNC instead
SEPR - SEPRACOR INC - Tough one - biotechs are in for hot water when the fed is tighterning, like it better down below 50
TZOO - TRAVELZOO INC - DIVE DIVE DIVE NO!
WFC - WELLS FARGO & CO - BULL - Always good, good dividend, good return, good management
MVL - MARVEL ENTERPRISE - Like MVL not MRVL, Like SYY not CSCO
LGF - LIONS GATE ENTMT - Very good - Thinks stock Is the next big entertainment stock and that's saying something for him to say that
MHP - MCGRAW HILL COS T - Inexpensive, of the publishers its one of my favorites - Take a look at Gannett (GCI) too
NYT - N Y TIMES CL A - Gotta be a value somewhere there but he can't see it - another cheap stock that is only getting cheaper
USG - U S G CP - RING THE REGISTER - It spiked on the Asbestos bill and will come back down
PLMO - PALMONE INC - BEAR BEAR - Enough problems already with RIMM, stay away
GLW - CORNING INC - HOLD
PTF - PETROFUND ENERGY - He'd buy it down a bit, energy stock
RDK - RUDDICK CP - Buy WFMI instead, only supermarket he likes
ABLE - ABLE ENERGY INC - BULL - likes diesel
JBL - JABIL CIRCUIT INC - NO - Don't like outsource manufacturing for tech
CMGI - CMGI INC - BULL - Not the same old CMGI we saw earlier in the 2000's - likes it at $1
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