Jim Cramer's Wall Street Confidential Picks, Jan. 28

Recap of Jim Cramer’s comments on Wall Street Confidential, Monday January 28. Click on a stock ticker for more analysis:

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Laureate Education (LAUR), The Gap (GPS): The online education, paper and bank sectors are rising from the dead amid the frenetic M & A activity recently, commented Cramer who discussed LAUR as an undervalued stock which is not getting enough credit for its Latin American division. However, he doesn't think that leveraged buyouts are for every company, but sees GPS as a perfect LBO opportunity, because he believes it would perform better as a private company. Selling 500 to 1,000 stores would be "catastrophic for the company's earnings," said Cramer, pointing out that GPS would have the flexibility as a private company to undertake unpopular reforms that are necessary for a turnaround. Although many companies do well publicly, "the payday for private, I find, has been very positive," he said. He concluded by noting that not a lot of capital has been going into the market because people are "fed up with our country" and he thinks that Europe may be a safer place to invest.

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