Cramer's 'Mad Money' Recap: Lightning Round Review

07/01/05 - 07:33 PM EDT

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Jim Cramer

On a special edition of "Mad Money" on CNBC Friday, Jim Cramer offered an all-lightning round hour in which he recapped some of the buy and sell ideas he provided to callers during the show in recent weeks.


Getting positive remarks from Cramer were Lennar (LEN Quote), Boeing (BA Quote), Inland Real Estate (IRC Quote), Dean Foods (DF Quote), Zenith National Insurance (ZNT Quote), Nike (NKE Quote), Reebok (RBK Quote), Wolverine World Wide (WWW Quote), Stride Rite (SRR Quote), SL Green (SLG Quote), Eagle Materials (EXP Quote) and Allstate (ALL Quote).

He also had upbeat views on AIG (AIG Quote), CMGI (CMGI Quote), GameStop (GME Quote), Sirius (SIRI Quote), Dover (DOV Quote), Yahoo! (YHOO Quote), Papa John's (PZZA Quote), Genentech (DNA Quote), Aramark (RMK Quote), Offshore Logistics (OLG Quote), J.P. Morgan (JPM Quote), San Juan Basin (SJT Quote), Toll Brothers (TOL Quote) and Chattem (CHTT Quote).

Also receiving Cramer's endorsement were WellPoint (WLP Quote), Skyworks (SWKS Quote), Corning (GLW Quote), Shaw Group (SGR Quote), Engineered Support (EASI Quote), General Dynamics (GD Quote), Sonic Corp. (SONC Quote), Disney (DIS Quote), Ross Stores (ROST Quote), Engelhard (EC Quote), Prudential (PRU Quote), Metris (MXT Quote), Adobe (ADBE Quote), Equity Office (EOP Quote), UPS (UPS Quote), ConocoPhillips (COP Quote), Duke Energy (DUK Quote), Intel (INTC Quote), KB Home (KBH Quote) and ITT Industries (ITT Quote).

Odyssey Re (ORH Quote), XTO Energy (XTO Quote), Timberland (TBL Quote), Nike (NKE Quote), Novatel (NVTL Quote), TurboChef (OVEN Quote) and Lucent (LU Quote) were viewed with optimism, along with McAfee (MFE Quote), Deere (DE Quote), Bowater (BOW Quote), Calpine (CPN Quote), Disney (DIS Quote), Marvell Technology (MRVL Quote), Broadcom (BRCM Quote), Texas Instruments (TXN Quote), National Semiconductor (NSM Quote), Tesoro (TSO Quote), Lockheed Martin (LMT Quote), Northrop Grumman (NOC Quote), Alliant Techsystems (ATK Quote), Enterra Energy (EENC Quote) and Sears Holdings (SHLD Quote).

Cramer also had plenty of bearish calls recently, including Netflix (NFLX Quote), Able Labs (ABRX Quote), Maxtor (MXO Quote), International Securities Exchange (ISE Quote), Canadian Pacific Railway (CP Quote), Nastech Pharmaceutical (NSTK Quote), Heinz (HNZ Quote), Geron (GERN Quote), Mattel (MAT Quote), Magna Entertainment (MECA Quote), Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE Quote), Bank of America (BAC Quote), Nokia (NOK Quote), Biogen Idec (BIIB Quote) and Hot Topic (HOTT Quote).

He also said investors should avoid Earthlink (ELNK Quote), Friedman Billings Ramsey (FBR Quote), Frontline (FRO Quote), Checkfree (CKFR Quote), International Game Technology (IGT Quote), Callaway Golf (ELY Quote), Health Net (HNT Quote), CarMax (KMX Quote), Zebra (ZBRA Quote), Leucadia National (LUK Quote), Krispy Kreme (KKD Quote), Synopsys (SNPS Quote), Ballard Power (BLDP Quote), Oracle (ORCL Quote) and Fuelcell (FCEL Quote)

More words of caution were offered on Archer Daniels Midland (ADM Quote), NitroMed (NTMD Quote), Powerwave Technologies (PWAV Quote), Cognos (COGN Quote), Audible (ADBL Quote), Wind River (WIND Quote), Presstek (PRST Quote), Johnson Controls (JCI Quote), Orbital Sciences (ORB Quote), Verizon (VZ Quote), Regeneron Pharmaceuticals (REGN Quote), Dreamworks (DWA Quote), Nordic American Tanker (NAT Quote), Aspect Communications (ASPT Quote), Redback (RBAK Quote), Kana (KANAE Quote) and Ameritrade (AMTD Quote).


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At the time of publication, Cramer was long GameStop, Alliant Techsystems, Intel, J.P. Morgan, Lucent, Aramark, Sears Holdings and Yahoo!.

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