Jim Cramer's Mad Money Lightning Round Picks, 8/9/07

Miriam Metzinger submits: Stocks discussed in the lightning round session of Jim Cramer’s Mad Money TV program, Thursday August 9. Click on a stock ticker for more analysis:

Bullish calls:

Corning (GLW): ' ... you want fiber... if you want voice, video... you have to go with Corning ... they're talking about the venerable fiber that Verizon is going to be using from GLW to snake in and out of apartments...'
Microsoft (MSFT)
Oracle (ORCL)
Campbell Soup (CPB): 'If anybody is possible to get a takeover bid, then CPB could do it. On the fundamentals, it's okay.'
Invitrogen (IVGN): 'A very hot stock. Nucleic acids, enzymes. It does some pretty cool stuff...'
Nastech Pharmaceutical (NSTK): 'I took a lot of heat from the shorts, telling me that I was dead wrong... and they're wrong. NSTK is your speculative play. It has obesity. It has autism. It's got the special nasal way to get delivery for these things... It's got diabetes.'
Schlumberger (SLB): ' ... when they put Schlumberger on sale... when they make SLB 17x earnings, I'm going to send you to best of breed. That's my predilection.'
Cameron International (CAM): 'This stock was down 4. I like it.'
Expeditors International (EXPD): 'It hit a 52-week high today. People always think about freight. They should be worried about logistics and freight. That's what EXPD does.'
Allegheny Tech (ATI): 'I need you to be in ATI under $100.'
Progressive (PGR): 'They're buying these high-quality pieces of paper that are yielding great. The earnings are going to explode for PGR!'
Prudential Financial (PRU)
MetLife (MET)
AllState (ALL)

Bearish calls:

Synopsys (SNPS): 'Look, it's tech, so my bias is to like it but, if I'm going to be in software, I want to go into the biggest possible names, with the best balance sheets.'
CommScope (CTV)
Southern Copper (PCU): '... $90 before I would buy it, and the reason why is the holders are so bad... But this one has a 6% dividend. When it gets down to my level ... that's your chance to pull the trigger.'
Coach (COH):'COH has come down a lot, but I want to be careful. I'm not going to pull the trigger.'
Family Dollar (FDO): 'The FDO numbers were so bad that I'm making a prediction right here, right now, that Dollar General will be the first private equity deal to go bust.'
Tribune (TRB)
Titanium Metals (TIE): 'I don't want you messing with TIE.'

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Comments

[jturano7423]

August 10th, 2007
Jim Cramer was right to purchase NSTK on March 16th and the other 18 times he mentioned the stock on the show since that time. Nstk should give you an award for giving life back to the long even if temporary. Except I disagree
with your statements re:Obesity, and Autism with Nastech's chances!
Your as good as your staff preps you and your friends back you on this stock.
In researching Obesity,Autism, and RNAI, I believe in my opinion, that you have over blown the perception of chances nstk will have with future success in these areas. The amount of hurdles Nstk has to jump over will be more than the years you and I have left in our lives combined! The current 100 drugs up for approvals and completed phases by other drug companies
in these three different area, will be announced within 12 months periodically. And Nastech is not on this FDA list!
So in my opinion Nstk recently has defied logic, statistics,earnings, and unwarranted movement upwards while the dow has gone done dramatically
for the first time in 4 years. nstk has defied every investment web sites and
their reports, or rankings to about nstk.
You have a great show but how you picked a turtle to win the race these past 5 months deserves loud applause and a reward by the CEO of Nastech!

[jturano7423]

August 11th Now that most of the investment web sites have a sell signal
on NSTK, and a long time period of FDA hurdles to jump over,in the three areas of Obesity, Autism, And RNAI, maybe investors ought to read the set backs that the FDA has given to many Big Pharma companies and Biotech stocks after years of pending phase stages that have recently been reported on. Like WYETH, VPHM, and so on and so on these past 8 months!
This is far from being in the Bag! This isn't even worthy of a speculative buy anymore, it's down right Remote and misleading.

[jturano7423]

Aug.15th (Jim Cramer)
Nastech Pharmaceutical (NSTK): 'I took a lot of heat from the shorts, telling me that I was dead wrong... and they're wrong. NSTK is your speculative play. It has obesity. It has autism. It's got the special nasal way to get delivery for these things... It's got diabetes.'
jturano's reply......
It also has been so over hyped and manipulated that the stock is way back down from August 9th and as usual the shareholders are left in the dust! Some made quick profits, then shorted the stock and now there is weakness in volume and lost interest in the stock! My comments Aug.10th and Aug.11th have become reality!

[jturano7423]

JULY 11, 2008 FROM JANUARY 2, 2007 UNTIL JULY 11TH, 2008
I HAVE BEEN THE MOST ACCURATE IN FORECASTING, REBUTTING
ARTICLES, RESEARCH FIRMS & THEIR TARGETS, STAR MINE EXPERTS, JIM CRAMER AND HIS TOUTING OF OBESITY WHICH IS OUT THE WINDOW NOW, AND EVERY OTHER FRIEND OR TOUTER OF THE NSTK OR NEW MRNA COMPANY. i HAVE BEEN RATED 5 STAR EXPERT BY PREDICT WALL STREET FOR 12 MONTHS STARIGHT AND HAVE BEEN AN ADVOCATE FOR SHAREHOLDERS WHO HAVE BEEN FLEECED OF THEIR LIFE SAVINGS WHILE MANAGEMENT CONTINUES TO GET PAID AND TO EXIST.