In a fresh appearance on CNBC’s Squawk on the Street, Jim Cramer started out by commenting on European stock markets. At the start of the day, markets were doing well and European stocks had actually outpaced American stocks in year-to-date performance. Cramer was surprised by their performance because he was “getting a lot of reports about how people are more negative about Europe than ever.” In fact he quoted the manager of one of the largest asset management firms in the world informing him about the “unmitigated negativity” surrounding European stocks.
Cramer reiterated his favored investing approach and reminded users about the need to look deeper than simply analyzing broader market performance. He shared that the strong European performance might “be short lived, because I’m trying to find companies that are doing really well in Europe. And I can’t really find them.” On the flip side, Cramer was able to find many companies “that are doing well in the United States.”
Naturally, when discussing top-performing US stocks, one firm that’s unavoidable is Wall Street’s favorite AI GPU stock whose GPUs are powering up all AI models. The stock had opened lower during the day, and Cramer pinned its performance on “negative things over at Korea!” These ‘things’ concerned the earnings report of Korean memory manufacturer SK Hynix, whose report had created doubts in investors’ minds about the demand for AI GPUs.
His latest stock market comments aren’t the only ones this year. In an earlier show, Cramer remarked on the breadth of market performance as opposed to the rise of just one or two indexes. He had outlined that despite the breadth that markets were experiencing, “the S&P oscillator I follow, [inaudible] is slightly overbought, there’s a lot more room.” Cramer added that even though technology stocks continued to impress, “there’s a considerable part of the market that has done nothing. Nothing for years. And that’s coming on.” He didn’t hold back about small-cap stocks either. The CNBC host believes “That stuff doesn’t work. People always try to chin that up. And then somebody sells a big small cap derivative.”
Another hot topic in the media, particularly after President Trump’s inauguration, has been the role that the ultra-wealthy might play in the US government. Cramer outlined previously that electric vehicle and aerospace billionaire Elon Musk has had a large role to play here. He shared that if you go back over the councils that were disbanded post-Charlottesville, what you would see are a lot of traditional industrialists and drug companies.” Cramer added that these individuals represented traditional wealth in America and they “were the people that were not drawn to, by Elon Musk. Elon Musk has changed the equation.”
This time around, he remarked on the feud between Elon Musk and OpenAI’s Sam Altman over President Trump’s $500 billion Stargate AI project. “I mean, you gotta talk about, oligarchs are mad at each other,” Cramer said. The fights make him want to “do [a] oligarch mad at each other segment.”
Cramer also shared what he believes might be the motivating factors behind President Trump’s intent to place tariffs on America’s trading partners. According to him:
“Look I do think that when we hear Trump talk about it he’s really just saying, listen we got a big trade deficit with you and we gotta put a tariff on unless you buy our stuff. And that therefore people are not as worried. I still come back with Mexico,
Finally, the CNBC host had some good news on the inflationary front. He believes “that things are going to have to roll back prices, things have gotten too expensive.”
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Jim Cramer Still Backs Palantir (PLTR) Despite Pentagon Worries – Here’s Why
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Palantir Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:PLTR) is one of the most well-known data analytics companies in the world. Most of Cramer’s remarks about the firm have surrounded its ability to benefit from a push for cost-cutting at the Pentagon under the new Trump administration. Previously, the host has shared optimism about Palantir Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:PLTR)’s ability to profit from the cost-cutting initiatives. However, his latest comments took a more downbeat turn:
“Now Palantir by the way is so far not really at the seat at the table that I always thought they would be at the Defense Department. And I think what we have to watch is the Defense Department going to be able to defeat DOGE? And if they defeat DOGE, they’re gonna, then Palantir’s not going to be as successful as I really want them to be because Palantir’s got ways to be able to cut the budget, the defense budget. And be I think, better warfighters.”
Yet, despite the lack of clarity, Cramer is still a fan of Palantir Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:PLTR) CEO Alex Carp as he believes that Carp is one of the smartest people in the world.
Overall, PLTR ranks 3rd on our list of stocks that Jim Cramer discussed. While we acknowledge the potential of PLTR as an investment, our conviction lies in the belief that some AI stocks hold greater promise for delivering higher returns and doing so within a shorter time frame. If you are looking for an AI stock that is more promising than PLTR but that trades at less than 5 times its earnings, check out our report about the cheapest AI stock.
