Cramer: Shoulda Been Even More Bullish

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At the beginning of the year I was predicting big double-digit gains for the Dow Jones Industrial Average in my annual forecast, a forecast that quickly got me re-branded as a ridiculous optimist.

Now I'm looking real right.

Should have been even more bullish. Take a look; there are no holes in this index. When the worst you get is a not-great number from IBM(IBM), you know you are off to the races.

Coke(KO) had its best quarter in a decade and will go to $60 at this pace.

Johnson & Johnson(JNJ) was supposed to be weak, but instead blows numbers away on drugs that we didn't even think were doing well.

JPMorgan Chase(JPM) comes out with a magnificent number, arguably the best of the banks and a heavenly dividend boost.

McDonald's(MCD) is reinvigorated with a growth that we would expect from a small-cap restaurant chain, better than that!

You have to think that after that beautiful United Technologies(UTX) number, the stock is ready to break out to $70.

Citigroup(C) came in with its first upside surprise in ages, and the stock is on the move.

Alcoa's(AA) the best Dow stock so far and it's not done. It won't be independent next year at this time -- that's my forecast and I'm sticking to it.

Intel(INTC) looked good; AMD's(AMD) losing share so I am not worried about that one.

Only General Electric(GE) and IBM didn't do better than I was hoping, and both were upside surprises of a sort.

I think the best is yet to come, there's more great Dow ink. I believe these companies will vastly exceed the numbers:

• Honeywell(HON)
• Pfizer(PFE)
• Procter & Gamble(PG)
• Disney(DIS)
• AIG(AIG)
• Exxon Mobil(XOM)
• 3M(MMM)
• Hewlett-Packard(HPQ)
• Verizon(VZ)
• DuPont(DD)
• American Express(AXP)

Yep, shoulda been even more bullish.

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