Cramer's 'Mad Money' Recap: June 20
06/20/08 - 07:46 PM EDT
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"Today's selloff was led by all of the sectors we hate," Jim Cramer told viewers of his "Mad Money" TV show Friday. He told investors to stay away from the banks, retailers and automakers, which led today's decline. Instead, he told investors to stick with the theses he's been repeating over and over, mainly agriculture, mining, minerals, infrastructure and the petroleum complex focused on natural gas and oil infrastructure. Cramer recommended Gardner Denver (GDI Quote), a maker of the components needed to produce and ship oil where it's needed, as a new favorite in the oil patch. He last recommended the stock back on Sept. 26 at $36.60, and since then the stock is up 46%.
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Speculation Friday
For "Speculation Friday," Cramer featured Oil Sands Quest (BQI Quote) as a real estate play on the ever-increasing quest for more oil. Oil Sands Quest currently controls over 500,000 acres land in Saskatchewan, Canada -- perfect for oil sands drilling and could be sitting on up to 10 billion barrels of bitumen, or dirty oil. Cramer explained that while bitumen is harder to refine than light sweet crude, with oil well over $40 a barrel, the economics of oil sands now makes sense. But even if Oil Sands Quests doesn't find oil at all, Cramer values the company as a real estate play. Cramer compared Oil Sands Quest to Ivanhoe Energy (IVAN Quote), which recently purchased leases in Canada at a value of $2.8 million per square acre. Applying that number to Oil Sands' 1,200 square miles of land, Cramer said the company could be valued at $3.4 billion, or more than 3 times its current enterprise value. Cramer did caution viewers that Oil Sands Quest is speculative. The company has no revenue and has been issuing a slew of stock offerings which has been dilutive to its outstanding shares. He cautioned viewers that with Oil Sands Quest trading at just over $6, they must use caution when buying the speculative name and not pay up for the shares.Next Week's Gameplan
Cramer said he expects next week to be quiet with the beginning of the summer season upon us. So for next week's game plan, he recommended buying CVS Caremark (CVS Quote) after Walgreen (WAG Quote) reports what he expects to be a disappointing quarter. He also expects Rite-Aid (RAD Quote) to be a withering entity in the drug store marketplace. On Tuesday, Cramer recommended buying Darden (DRI Quote) before it reports on Tuesday. He said while everyone expects a weak quarter from Darden, he doesn't expect food costs to hurt the company as much as expected.
On Wednesday, Cramer recommended buying
Nike (NKE Quote) on any weakness ahead of the Olympics next quarter. "If you don't see any weakness, we take a pass," he noted. He also recommended buying
Research In Motion (RIMM Quote) ahead of what he expects to be an upside surprise.
Cramer said he's worried about Thursday, with
ConAgra (CAG Quote) reporting what's anticipated to be poor results. He said that
Discover Financial (DFS Quote),
home builder
Lennar (LEN Quote), and Rite-Aid also report, and he's not a fan of any of them. On the upside, Cramer mentioned only Accenture (ACN Quote) as a possible buy ahead of their earnings.




