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Homes.com Narrator (0:00)
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AT&T Business Wireless Spokesperson (0:48)
Not every sale happens at the register. Before AT&T business Wireless, checking out customers on our mobile POS systems took too long. Basically a staring contest where everyone loses. It's crazy what people will say during an awkward silence. Now transactions are done before the silence takes hold. That means I can focus on the task at hand and make an extra sale or two. Sometimes I do miss the bonding time.
Jim Cramer (1:12)
Sometimes AT&T business Wireless connecting changes everything. Hey, I'm Kramer. Welcome to Mad Money. Welcome to Kramerica. I'll be my friends. Hey, I'm just trying to make a little bit of money here. My job is not just to entertain, but to put it in context. Call me 1-800-743-CBC. Tweet me. Im Kramer. On the surface, the stock market seems totally binary, dancing to the tune of a president who likes to take the average into his own hands and raise or lower that, depending upon the circumstance. When the market's up, outsiders say, hey, things must be good. When the market's down, they figure things are terrible. Now that may be true. If you own just nothing but index funds, that's fine. I own index funds. Today was another good day for index fund holders. Dow gaining 3 or 7 points. SB advancing 0.55%. Nasdaq climbing 0.91%. But what if you're doing what I advise and how to make money in any market? What if you actually are marrying your index funds like I do with individual stocks because you want to own some high quality companies in order to rack up outsized gains? Consider for me, I've got my index funds and then I've got my child trust. Now most of you had a chance to own long term winners like Apple or Amazon or video. If you have been even part time watchers of this 20 year old show that's been deeply committed to owning these stocks, we created FAANG, Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google 13 years ago to get you to buy those stocks. We added Apple to the mix not that long after because we wanted you to own those stocks. And it's reasonable to believe that you would have bought some of these household names. Even as many professionals advise you to steer clear of stock picking because they think you're too dumb. I disagree with that. As long as you're disciplined and do the homework, I'm confident you have the ability to trounce the S&P 500 with your individual stock portfolio. Just true. What happens though when the great ones, the ones that have worked out so well, what happens when they start running out of gas, whatever, running on fumes? What happens when they lose their leadership qualities and get confined to the dustbin of stock history first, as I said today and what my wife says was kind of a somber investing club meeting, I didn't mean that I don't believe that any of the mega cap tech stocks are truly finished. Including the Magnificent Seven, but also semi duct Colossus that is Broadcom, which actually barely. I don't talk about this much on Mad Money, but I think I should. I'm always looking to see if a company is getting its due for how much it earns. Its due is also considered to be the multiple or more clearly the price journeys multiple. If a company's liked in the marketplace, the stock will reflect that by having a higher price during these multiple than stocks that are disliked. But if company goes out of stock, if people stop believing it, then the market places a lower price during small port of stock. Think of it as a shorthand way to look at how a company's faring and it's mystifying to many say I want to bust that. Let's explain what's going on with the weakness so you understand what's happening with these iconic stocks that everyone used to talk about all the time. It should be obvious right now that the Magnificent Seven and their buddies bereft of friends in this market. Take better people were paying 30 times earnings high okay for the stock as recently as a year ago. Now they're paying just 22 times earnings. Whoa. That's a sign the market's gotten skeptical. Mark Zuckerberg and the company's growth rate, which is the most important quality to factor in when you're deciding what to pay for stock. It's a sign that Metta has lost its way there. I said it matters. Lost its way jump today. But met us met as revaluation, let's call it that is severe. But the price to earnings ratios of the Mag 7 have been shrinking pretty much across the board, causing lots of people to worry that the boom is off the rose and they have to make adjustments. I would contend that that's not true. I know that something else could really be at work here and I figured it out. The seven are known for their consistent high earnings power. Right now, as I said earlier this week, you have real concerns about the earnings power because there's this private company, OpenAI that's spending fortunes and that's doing it to take share and hurt all these companies at the same time. OpenAI does business with a bunch of companies and people are now questioning whether it'll be able to pay its bills. I think it's open. Open is like the open sore. It can really hurt a lot of things. I call it the Achilles heel. But there's another force that I'm not talking about this. You got to focus on people. This is something I haven't talked about to you. It's a huge part of the story. There's a new group of tech stocks in town and they are sucking up money from the rest of the sector from the seven. And these are pro se boring companies. The storage place. I have been talking about the storage place as a warning sign because they've rallied so far so fast. But there are tons of investors who love to chase hot stocks. And if they want to buy a SanDisk or a Seagate or a Western Dish or Micron, wow. The best place to store. They got to sell something. They don't have the money sitting around. They got to sell. Some people buy them and you know what they're selling? They're selling the seven. Consider Micron, very good semiconductor company. You know, we talk about them all the time. Make storage components. Stocks up 39% since the beginning of January. Seagate 26%. Crazy SanDisk is up 112. Crazy SanDisk and Western Digi's run up 41%. These companies underinvested for years because there was really no need for massive storage. This is horrible. We, we didn't have the data. We didn't mind the data. We didn't store the data. So they were absolutely caught flat footed by the rise of artificial intelligence. They didn't see it coming. The companies that should have been calling up to expand their production. They should have been calling Applied Materials, Lamb Research, kla. They didn't get to call either. They were woefully behind. Now we're in this bizarre never before seen moment where the storage companies just keep raising price over and over and over again and there's no resistance because these devices are like gasoline in a car. If oil were scarce and gas prices were high, you wouldn' say I'm not going to use it. You'd have to pay at any price. Why does this matter? Billions of dollars in this country being allocated to individual stocks every single day. There are many different styles of money mad someone value. Others want solid growth. Still others want companies that can scale have tremendous franchise value. But the most important style in this country though is momentum. These managers want to buy stocks that have accelerating growth and they want to sell stocks that seem to have slowing growth and are incredibly squeezed in margin. What you're seeing right now is the great transference. For the first time since the creation of Magnificent Seven back in March of 2023, these stocks have become donors to the market capitalization of these storage companies. To watch the levitation of a Micron or Sanders. Every single morning before the market opens is about what's happening, the transference. When I was on the trading desk I used to say these stocks are galloping to where they have to go. And it's certainly not right here. It's higher even up here. Micron is not expensive on a price series basis. But we don't know how long the memory shortage will last. I think last some time. So it could be worth buying even up here, you know if it's down for a day. And that desire, that desire to catch the next hottest stock is driving the money out of the Mag 7 into the memory red hots. Something that intel took itself out of the running today after announcing a quarter that was less than expected. That's wrong. You have to look out. The demand there is insane. I think we haven't heard the last of this stock which is up 40% this year. I think CEO Lip Bhutan is a lot of sleeve until we are very hot stock. If you give up on it, I think you're making a big mistake. It's got the MO look. It could be worse if you own a Salesforce service. Adobe Workday Atlassian Simple Team. These are enterprise software companies you are watching extreme price to earnings, multiple shrinkage as nervous holders think that the general platforms will make these software alphabets obsolete like them in seven. No, enterprise software companies actually missed its estimates. This is all in the come all psychological. The money's pouring out of enterprise software. Head right to storage, the weakest in storage. The weakest weakness in software is happening because the market makes its judgment well ahead of when things actually change. I've come not to trust the software companies myself. I do believe that outfits like Anthropic will allow you to create rival products for a fraction of the cost. I've seen it with my own eyes. No, I'm not going to ban the seven. I own a lot of them from my travel trust. I do recognize that right now the donors. But the bottom line, I think that the money will ultimately flow back to most of the seven, not just Alphabet, which is the only one that's strong because these companies just have too many levers, too much money. They're run by people who are too smart to bet against. I'm sticking with the seven. I think the storage plays are going higher and when they finally peak, you will be handsomely rewarded if you stay with the seven. If history matters, the commodity disk drive players and commodity semiconductor companies will not stay up by year end. Rick in Oklahoma. Rick.
