Jim Cramer's Stop Trading! Purchase Pepsi
Buy
Pepsi
(PEP) - Get Report
, Jim Cramer said Tuesday on
CNBC's
"Stop Trading!" segment.
Indra Nooyi is "the most exciting CEO in America today" in shifting the company's focus to healthier snacks from soda and chips, Cramer said. He said he believes she's not getting credit for the transformation.
Cramer also likes
Medco
(MHS)
, citing its gains from generic drug growth. "This is your Bernanke disaster scenario stock," he said, saying it could rise to $100 from a recent $88 and still look cheap to big institutional buyers.
Cramer said shorting
CIT
(CIT) - Get Report
could be a "gigantic mistake," but he wouldn't buy the common stock. He suggests buying January 30 calls as a bet on the company being sold.
Cramer likes European telcos
KPN
(KPN)
,
Vodafone
(VOD) - Get Report
and
Deutsche Telekom
(DT) - Get Report
because they're "on fire."
At the time of publication, Cramer had no positions in stocks mentioned.
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