Cramer's 'Mad Money Lightning Round': Bite Into McDonald's and Yum!

Cramer says fast food is the place to make some fast money.
By TheStreet.com Staff ,

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Here's what Jim Cramer had to say about some of the stocks that callers offered up during the "Mad Money Lightning Round" Monday evening:

Indevus Pharmaceuticals

(IDEV) - Get Report

: "I recommended this as a speculative play. ... They have a lot of products ... I'm not backing away from it. ... But my speculative play is

Nastech Pharmaceutical

(NSTK)

."

Great Lakes Dredge & Dock

(GLDD) - Get Report

: "This Great Lakes thing ... I recommended this. ... It does have a good business, it's an infrastructure play. ... But I would rather be in

Foster Wheeler

(FWLT)

than I would be in GLDD."

Halliburton

(HAL) - Get Report

: "I'm more conservative than that. If you're looking for a stock to keep you afloat, it can't be Haliburton. ... You need to have a stock that has a dividend. ... You need something like an

AT&T

(T) - Get Report

or a

Verizon

(VZ) - Get Report

... or even a

ConEd

(ED) - Get Report

. Any one of those is better than Halliburton for your circumstances."

GameStop

(GME) - Get Report

: "This stock is unchanged! I was hoping we would get a chance to buy it at $56, but it's not gonna go there. ... So you know what we gotta do? We gotta pull the trigger."

InterDigital

(IDCC) - Get Report

: "I got behind this stock originally, in part because it's from my hometown, before the lawsuit. ... But now I say ixnay on InterDigitalnay."

Diamond Offshore

(DO) - Get Report

: "Well, you know,

Alcan

(AL) - Get Report

was the beautiful takeover bid, we don't know if Diamond Offshore is gonna get that. ... I happen to personally like

Transocean

(RIG) - Get Report

. ... But DO has put together one great company and I would never tell you to sell DO."

China Digital

(STV)

: "I gotta tell you, man, I read through the prospectus. ... This is as good as a

Baidu

(BIDU) - Get Report

, this is as good as a

China Telecom

(CHA) - Get Report

, but this thing is up. ... It does feel like

VMware

(VMW) - Get Report

. Could it add another 20 points? Yeah, I say BuyBuyBuy!"

McDonald's

(MCD) - Get Report

: "I wish I had bought more. This is the ultimate weak dollar stock. I also like

Yum! Brands

(YUM) - Get Report

. I went on record that Yum would have a blowout quarter and I was right. I like fast food. I like Yum. I like McDonald's."

Intel

(INTC) - Get Report

: "Intel doesn't have a lot of momentum. ... I'm not gonna tell you to sell here. ... I think the stock is OK. ... When we get to $27, SellSellSell."

ConocoPhillips

(COP) - Get Report

: "I like Conoco. It was downgraded last week, someone took it to a sell. I won't even dignify who that was. ... I think this could be an $80-to-$120 name. ... I think Conoco rocks!"

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At the time of publication, Cramer was long ConocoPhillips, Halliburton, McDonald's and Transocean.

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