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Foster Wheeler Can Ride Oil's Rise

By Jim Cramer
RealMoney Columnist

11/4/2009 11:20 AM EST
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Lots of the companies that got clocked with the oil move down are starting to come back. Foster Wheeler (FWLT - commentary - Trade Now) is a great example. This company has been in the doghouse forever, and I sense that it could embark upon one of those Joy Global (JOYG - commentary - Trade Now)/Bucyrus (BUCY - commentary - Trade Now) moves as the boiler market comes back -- hugely important -- and credit for big projects starts flowing again.

 
I figured that with the compares so hard vs. the tail end of orders that were put in before things collapse, the backlog would be down and the earnings would be as much as halved. Instead, we get 71 cents vs. 88 cents, with lots of bad currency translation hurting the company.

What excites me about the quarter is that some of the petro business that got canceled or put on hold is starting to come back, and that means we get the start of another cycle.

FWLT used to trade with the Philadelphia Oil Service Index (OSX), but the linkage broke when the company said that things had gotten really slow and that projects were being delayed.

I see the company working through those problems now, and with one quarter of the market cap in cash, you are in great shape to ride this through.

At the time of publication, Cramer had no positions in stocks mentioned.


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