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Lightning Round
Stock Picks and Comments
for:
Monday, August 2, 2010
(see all Lightning Round
stock picks/comments below
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Jim's
rating on
this stock |
STOCK
SYMBOL |
Closing
price that
day |
Full Company Name & Jim's
Comments: |
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JPM* |
41.64 |
JPMorgan (JPM*)
Jim:
No, no, no!... We're not sellers
of J.P. Morgan, we're buyers of
J.P. Morgan! This is going to be
their first really good quarter,
finished with financial
regulation... obviously, with
regulation, obviously with the
credit card act... obviously
with all the different swaps,
configurations... obviously with
all the FDIC fees. We really
have headwinds here, but I think
they're all in the stock at $41,
and I would be an aggressive
buyer, and it is one the largest
positions in my charitable
trust... where
you can follow along at
ActionAlertsPlus.com.
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MRO* |
34.28 |
Marathon Oil Corp. (MRO*)
Jim:
Well, Marathon is about to
report. I'm not sure exactly how
good it will be.
My charitable trust
owns it. I'm not owning it for
the quarter... I know refining
was good for Holly... that's a
company... refining was good for
Sunoco... it didn't seem that
good for Valero... but I think
that Marathon's very cheap. I
would emphasize that
Exxon Mobil (XOM)
is expensive. And, even though
my friend, Dan Dicker, who was
recommending it on
TheStreet.com,
where I'm chairman, I would
prefer for you to be in
Marathon, than in Exxon.
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XOM |
61.94 |
Exxon Mobil (XOM)
See MRO* comments above for:
XOM
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UAM |
16.76 |
Universal American Corp (UAM)
Jim:
A good company... a good life
insurance company. It didn't
stub its toe. A really good
company. I like it... I like it.
That group... remember,
MetLife (MET)
is doing a very big equity
offering. I'd like you in the
MetLife offering; I think it's
going to be really cheap and
work well.
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MET |
42.73 |
MetLife (MET)
See UAM comments above for:
MET
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IRBT |
20.08 |
iRobot Corp. (IRBT)
Jim:
And that's why I like them, sir.
I think the stock goes higher. I
think the revenue ramp is good,
and the earnings ramp is good. I
disliked the stock for a long
time, because I thought it was
more promise and hype than it
was reality. No more! The
numbers are real, and I think
the stock goes higher. However,
I did hear you have a really big
gain. Remember, I'm always
saying the idea that bulls make
money, bears make money, and
hogs get slaughtered. Let's not
get ahead of ourselves. How
about taking some off, and we
can play with the rest... the
house's money.
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DE |
67.17 |
Deere & Co. (DE)
Jim:
My take is, is that Deere...
first of all, congratulations on
the profit (caller said he just
sold it at a 52-week high last
week)... I love a profit...
never going to say no to profit
but, if you ask me what the
long-term for Deere over the
next 3-5 five years, it could go
to $100. So I would like, on any
decline, which I figure we'll
get one, because the market was
so strong today... I'd like you
to go back into Deere. I think a
lot of things that Potash said
last week, which is about the
big shortages in grain overseas,
I think it will be very positive
for Deere. And don't forget the
ethanol bump up in the
September/October timeframe.
Deere goes higher!
Price target: $100.00
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UPS* |
66.60 |
United Parcel Service, Inc.
(UPS*)
Jim:
One of my bigger mistakes for
my charitable trust,
ActionAlertsPlus.com
was that I didn't get enough UPS
in, when the stock dropped to
$60. UPS...expeditors...
Federal Express (FDX)...
they're all going higher. Don't
forget, UPS has a lot of small
business too. When that ever
starts kicking in in America,
that stock is going to go to
$80-90... It hasn't kicked in
yet. I think that stock can go
to $75 on its own valuation.
Price target: $75.00
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FDX |
84.60 |
FedEx Corporation (FDX)
See UPS* comments above for:
FDX
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Lightning Round
Stock Picks and Comments
for:
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
(see all Lightning Round
stock picks/comments below
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Jim's
rating on
this stock |
STOCK
SYMBOL |
Closing
price that
day |
Full Company Name & Jim's
Comments: |
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VLO |
17.68 |
Valero Energy Corp. (VLO)
Jim:
I don't want to own a pure play
on a refiner. If I had to own a
refiner, you know I'm going to
own
Sunoco Inc. (SUN),
which is a breakup story that we
have liked for the last... wow,
like a 20% move. SUN is better
than Valero.
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SUN |
36.26 |
Sunoco Inc. (SUN)
See VLO comments above for:
SUN
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PCL |
36.68 |
Plum Creek Timber Co. Inc.
(PCL)
Jim:
PCL is terrific, but we've got
competition from
Weyerhaeuser Co. (WY*).
I think Weyerhaeuser is better
than Plum Creek... more growth.
Remember, that's a $16-17 name
that I own... the charitable
trust owns it...
ActionAlertsPlus.com...
We had that terrific CEO on the
other day... It's my kind of
soda (as he holds up the
Weyerhaeuser soda bottle prop
that he used in the previous
segment).
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WY* |
16.98 |
Weyerhaeuser Co. (WY*)
See PCL comments above for:
WY
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PSO |
16.04 |
Pearson plc (PSO)
Jim:
That quarter was magnificent. It
was a magnificent quarter. But
then I'm all freaked out,
because I figure okay, wait a
second... some of my friends are
going to bring in iPads to
charter schools and entirely cut
out textbooks. But, you know
what? That is so far in the
future, I'm going to
re-recommend Pearson. I think
they're doing a fantastic job.
They are a big textbook company.
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PHG |
31.73 |
Philips Electronics NV (PHG)
Jim:
Well, remember, they also have
healthcare. There are a lot of
different electronics. I'm not
going to do that. It's not going
to move the needle (where the
caller asked about the mandate
to move to new light bulbs in
2012)... I have to say don't
buy, don't buy, don't buy...
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X |
47.00 |
United States Steel Corp.
(X)
Jim:
Nope, nope, nope. If we want to
own steel, the heart and soul,
everything good, we're going to
buy
Nucor (NUE*),
which
the charitable trust,
ActionAlertsPlus.com
owns. If we want a turnaround,
we're going to buy that
AK Steel (AKS)...
though it's moved up nicely
since we first recommended it.
Both AK Steel on the low end,
and Nucor on the high end, are
better than letter X.
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NUE* |
39.86 |
Nucor (NUE*)
See X comments above for:
NUE*
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AKS |
14.84 |
AK Steel Holding Corp. (AKS)
See X comments above for:
AKS
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RRC |
38.73 |
Range Resources Corp. (RRC)
Jim:
Look, I endorse that (caller
said he was thinking of a trade
out of the stock for a "deep in
the money" call)... that's a
strategy that I talk about in
Getting Back To
Even.
I think that's fine. Now,
remember... natural gas... one
more setback today. (Senator)
Reid said that the legislation
is not going to get through as
soon as we thought. Hence,
Clean Energy
(CLNE)
going down, hence the natural
gas companies going down. But I
like your idea of a "deep in the
money" call, stock
replacement... stock proxy...
detailed in
Getting Back To
Even
in an extensive chapter that
people think is too hard. But
this gentleman obviously can get
through. You can too.
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CLGX |
19.76 |
CoreLogic, Inc. (CLGX)
Jim:
Oh, I like that... I like that.
That's the software company
that's involved with real
estate... predictive decisions
for real estate and mortgages.
That's a terrific company! As a
matter of fact, I was actually
doing a lot of work on it to
profile it with my friend,
Nicole Erkin... my friend...
who's also my research
associate. I think that's a good
stock. And I think that I wish
that I had recommended it
already, because now the cat's
out of the bag, and no one will
care.
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Lightning Round
Stock Picks and Comments
for:
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
(see all Lightning Round
stock picks/comments below
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rating on
this stock |
STOCK
SYMBOL |
Closing
price that
day |
Full Company Name & Jim's
Comments: |
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BKS |
15.31 |
Barnes & Noble (BKS)
Jim:
No, no. Let's take some
profits. On that last conference
call, they went out of the way
to say how much money they had
to spend on Nook. I think anyone
who buys them is going to have
to follow up with several
hundred million dollars, and I
think that Nook is a tough thing
to go against
Amazon.com (AMZN).
Amazon is
en fuego
here.
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AMZN |
127.58 |
Amazon.com (AMZN)
See BKS comments above for:
AMZN
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OPEN |
48.89 |
OpenTable, Inc. (OPEN)
Jim:
You know what? I would normally
agree with you (that OPEN may
come crashing back down to earth
and go down), and then I see the
quarter, and suddenly, I start
thinking, you know what? I just
missed this Open Table
altogether. And all my friends
use it. I feel like I can't
opine on it. You know why?
Because I should have told
people to buy it in the $20s. I
don't think I have any standing
when it comes to Open Table. I
missed Open Table. I don't
have... as we would say on Wall
Street... "the call."
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LUK |
22.63 |
Leucadia National Corp. (LUK)
Jim:
Interesting pastiche, if not a
mosaic, of a conglomerate that I
actually think could do pretty
well. I once recommended it much
higher though, so you could say
Jim, you don't have the call on
that either.
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HBAN |
6.28 |
Huntington Bancshares Inc.
(HBAN)
Jim:
(Caller: Are you still a fan of
HBAN?) Oh yeah, absolutely.
Look... I mean, every single
bank stock has just had the
world dumped on them, because of
the 2000-page FinReg thing. But
Huntington Bank is doing really
well, and I want to reiterate my
buy. And I would still pull the
trigger right here, HBAN. Buy,
buy, buy!
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NFLX |
108.13 |
Netflix, Inc. (NFLX)
Jim:
Okay, alright... I want you to
get
Getting Back To
Even,
and jump in using "deep in the
money" calls, as a stock
replacement proxy, because this
stock's all over the map like
you said, which is why I like
the deep-in-the-money call
strategy. I defended Netflix at
$106... at $100, at $98... Right
here, I defend it. I think it's
coming back. It's a CANDIES...
that's right, it's one of my
highest-growth stocks. People
misinterpreted that quarter. It
was a dynamite quarter. Reed
Hastings, the CEO, is always
welcome on this show. He's done
a great job.
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KSS |
47.09 |
Kohl's (KSS)
Jim:
Man, this stock is in its own
personal bear market! I've got
to tell you... I have to tell
you, if unemployment (monthly
report) is bad on Friday, this
stock ain't going anywhere. May
I suggest that you make a swap?
May I suggest that people look
at
J. Crew Group (JCG)
at $35? Everyone has decided
that Mickey Drexler (CEO)
suddenly is not any good. So I
take a long-term view... I think
the quarter is going to be okay.
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JCG |
35.47 |
J. Crew Group (JCG)
See KSS comments above for:
JCG
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MOT |
8.06 |
Motorola Inc. (MOT)
Jim:
A lot of bidders, a lot of
cash... You know what?... Sell,
sell, sell! I like
Apple (AAPL*).
You could have all the MOTs you
want... If Apple were divided by
10, and it was a $26 stock,
you'd be buying it hand over
fist. So my gift to you is
Apple.
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AAPL* |
262.98 |
Apple, Inc. (AAPL*)
See MOT comments above for:
AAPL*
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C |
4.06 |
Citigroup (C)
Jim:
Alright, everyone's saying Jim,
you said you liked it, you liked
it and it's doing anything...
Will you give me a break? Tim
Geithner is selling every share
he's got... He's the Treasury
Secretary of the United
States... And I believe
personally that this stock is
still headed higher... It was
last year at this time about
$0.50 lower... That's a nice
return on a 3 and change
basis... I think next year at
this time it is gonna be
substantially higher... I
reiterate my buy, buy, buy...
Letter C... You know I think my
friend-buddy-pal Vik (i.e., CEO
Vikram Pandit) is doing a great
job over there... Trader Vik...
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Q |
5.69 |
Qwest (Q)
Jim:
Take it from me, and my merger
bot that I got on South Park...
Sell, Sell, Sell...
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ATPG |
11.08 |
ATP Oil & Gas Corp. (ATPG)
Jim:
Well, you know, ATBG is okay...
It's not great... I see a lot of
others, I like a major here... I
gotta tell you... I like the
Chevron, I still like
ConocoPhillips (COP)
more than yours... Yours is too
speculative... I don't think
it's right for you... I think
that you should be less
speculative when it comes to
oil.
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CVX |
78.73 |
Chevron Corp. (CVX)
See ATPG comments above for:
CVX
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COP |
56.93 |
ConocoPhillips (COP)
See ATPG comments above for:
COP
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NLY |
17.50 |
Annaly Capital
Management (NLY)
Jim:
Alright, everyone hated the
quarter from Mike Farrell...
Everyone is selling it... Will
you please pay attention?... He
did a big equity on it
already... He's gonna give you a
big yield... We like big
dividends... He's got it...
Stick with NLY...
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PNG |
24.80 |
PAA Natural Gas Storage, L.P.
(PNG)
Jim:
No, you're at a 52-week high...
At first I heard "PNG," and I
thought Procter and Gamble,
my charitable trust,
ActionAlertsPlus.com
owns it, and I like it...
Although, (for the) quarter,
people didn't love it... But
PAA, Natural Gas Storage, not up
here... We've made a lot of
money here... Let's let it come
in... Maybe we'll stick with
it....
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