Investing Tips

Cramer Recommends Toyota and Honda Stock

2005-11-21T18:57:00.000-08:00

Cramer recommended Toyota and Honda stock at the end of October. I bought the stock on 10/28/05 at $90. The stock is already up $9 since recommendation.

Cramer Mad Money Recommendation 11/15/05

2005-11-15T17:29:00.000-08:00

Chile is hot according to Jim Cramer. He recommends buying Enersis ENI, Vina Concha y Toro VCO and Sociedad Quimica y Minera SQM. Enersis is an utility company that is growing along with the demand for power in Chile. Vina Concha y Toro is a wine producer. Sociedad Quimica y Minera owns the world's largest lithium mine.

If you are concerned about buy an ADR stock from Chile, Cramer recommends Colgate-Palmolive CL which is the biggest brand name in Latin America.

Stock market index mostly flat

2005-11-15T16:52:00.000-08:00

Everyone complains about the stock market this year. The Dow Jones Industrials is off .8% for the year, the S&P 500 is only up 1.8%. However there are some bright spots to the market this year and it emphasizes the reason for diversification.

Stock Indexes that performed this year The following indexes performed pretty well this year:

AMEX Composite index was the bright spot returning 18.5% YTD.
Dow Utilities 15 index also did well returning 15.3% YTD.
Mid Cap 400 also did reasonably well returning 8.53% YTD.

I have made the mistake of thinking if you have more mutual funds that you are diversified, however, a lot of the big funds will end up owning the same stocks as the other big fund. As a result you need to make sure that you select funds that will provide you with real diversification.

Source WSJ

Cramer Mad Money Recommendations 11/14/05

2005-11-14T18:40:00.000-08:00

Today on Cramer's Mad Money he had the following recommendations.

On the financial side Cramer likes Well Fargo WFC and Commerce Bank CBH
In healthcare Cramer also recommended UnitedHealth Group UNH
On the tech side Cramer continues to recommend Motorola MOT and now also recommends Advance Micro Devices AMD
Proctor and Gamble PG rounds out the recommendation on consumer products side

3 stocks 3 stars

2005-11-13T05:22:00.000-08:00

Fool.com has an interesting article on 3 stocks that were part of Fast Company Customer First Award. They talk about Netflix NFLX, Whole Foods Market WFMI and Best Buy BBY. I know that Cramer really likes Whole Foods and their year over year revenue and net income has a positive track record. Netflix is also growing revenues and profits. We personally use Netflix at home, after previously trying the Blockbuster service which at first was good but then became very disappointing.

Click here for the article.

Cramer Mad Money Recommendations for 11/11/05

2005-11-11T19:25:00.000-08:00

Cramer recommended ING, Cramer believes ING is headed for $37. The stock ended the regular trading session Friday at $31.55.

Cramer also recommended Rofin-Sinar Technologies RSTI Thursday the company reported "beautiful earnings that no one expected" fueled by 12% growth in sales of macro lasers, "the big kinds," he said.

Cramer likes Stericycle SRCL which is a biohazard waste management company. As medical regulation gets more complicasted SRCL should do better.

For complete listing of Cramer's lightening round picks click here.

Top Performers Mutual Funds over the last 5 Year

2005-11-11T19:17:00.000-08:00

Fund Name Symbol Ann. Ret.
ING Russia A LETRX 38.01%
U.S. Global Investors Eastern Europe EUROX 37.95%
CGM Focus CGMFX 34.51%
Bruce BRUFX 33.69%
BlackRock Global Resources Instl SGLSX 33.67%
Evergreen Precious Metals I EKWYX 33.50%
USAA Precious Metals and Minerals USAGX 33.16%
Evergreen Precious Metals A EKWAX 33.16%
BlackRock Global Resources Inv A SSGRX 33.14%
U.S. Global Investors WrldPrecMineral UNWPX 33.13%

Cramer recommends Bear Stearns

2005-09-14T19:02:00.000-07:00

Cramer recommend Bear Stearns BCS today.