Jim Cramer's Mad Money Lightning Round Stock Picks, Aug. 22

Stocks discussed in the lightning round session of Jim Cramer’s Mad Money TV program, Wednesday August 22. Click on a stock ticker for more analysis:

Bullish calls:

McDonald's (MCD)
BJ Services (BJS)
Merck (MRK)
Pfizer (PFE)
Varian (VAR)
L3 Communications (LLL)
Valero (VLO) : "People think Valero has had it. ... They are wrong."
Capital One Financial (COF)
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
Clorox (CLX): "The fundamentals are good."
Double Hull Tankers (DHT)
Garmin (GRMN): "Consolidating after the split, and I am gonna stay long Garmin."
Amgen (AMGN)
Ford (F): "Right here, right now I am going out positive on Ford. I want you to stick with it."

Bearish calls:

BJ's Restaurants (BJRI): "When you got McDonald's (MCD) stuck at 35 with good numbers you bring me BJ's?"
Barr Pharmaceuticals (BRL): "Not when Merck [is] running. Not when now Pfizer is Pfizer... And don't forget, Schering-Plug (SGP).
American Science & Engineering (ASEI): "Third-best of breed." Varian and L3 are better than that, Cramer said.
North Fork (NFB): "What are you, an arbitrager? ... C'mon, you ring the register. I like COF (Capital One Financial), which is what that is gonna become."
Atheros Communications (ATHR): "I got enough problems recommending Advanced Micro. I'm sending you right now to AMD."
Diana Shipping (DSX): Cramer suggested Double Hull Tankers (DHT - news - Cramer's Take) instead
Navteq (NVT): "You're buying worst of breed."
Genentech (DNA)
Gold Kist (GKIS)

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Comments

[wonderific]

Unfortunately I listened to Cramer and swapped out of Dryships to Diana Shipping

[wonderific]

Unfortunately I listened to Cramer and swapped out of Dryships to Diana Shipping

[pok8rok8]

What does a wireless chip (ATHR) got to do with a Computer chip maker (AMD)? Other than both of them being in the chip business they are totally different segments. If your gonna recommend AMD you should recommend ATHR, because if pc sales are bullish wifi integration will be aswell...more products now are using or integrating wifi. This should be a bullish call.