On the Rails - Cramer's Lightning Round (5/9/08)

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

Bullish calls:

Apple (AAPL): "The only tech stocks we are recommending on the show are AAPL and Intel off of the decline."
Intel (INTC)
Marathon Oil (MRO): " If you need a refining stock that bad I'd give you Marathon which as both refining and oil in it but otherwise no to that sector."
Gencor Industries (GENC): " …you know what? You've got a winner."
First Solar (FSLR)): " …that stock is the only name you're going to hear me recommend other than Applied Materials which reports next week and has a solar division."
Applied Materials (AMAT)
Devon Energy (DVN): "I was on the Devon call, I don't know what people didn't like about it. That was a monster good one."
CSX Corp (CSX): "I like CSX Corp. as number one because Michael Ward. He is a railroad's man of all railroads men."
Union Pacific (UNP): " …that's got a great Californian branch and they're not going to cover up the bulling, they still have room for more as an expansion."
Burlington Northern (BNI): " …they have the best business out of the powder river basin with clean coal."
Norfolk Southern (NSC): " …it is the worst house in a great neighborhood which is better than 99% of the houses out there."
Potash (POT)

Bearish calls:

Juniper (JNPR): "I think it's a sell, sell, sell."
Sunoco (SUN): " I don't like SUN."
Commscope (CTV): "Sorry, I want to ring the register, there are too many players in that game, way to much competition."
Genentech (DNA): ". It's a tough one because they've got a great drug in this Avastin, but it's not getting the approvals that I want ... That group has gotten too hard too."
Sunpower (SPWR): "No, no, nope, nope. We are not positive on any of the traditional solar stocks that use silicate, that do not have an edge." Ormat Technologies (ORA)
Energy Conversion Devices (ENER): "ENER has been on a roll …but do you mind that at a 52 week high I say …Let's ring the register there."
Fifth Third Bancorp (FIIB): "I don't trust the dividend. This company used to be the premier bank in the country. It has systematically beaten itself up."
Farm & Construction Machinery (GTE)
Intrepid Potash (IPI): "I think IPI is good, but I wanted you to get in on the IPO, if you're not in the IPO, I think you take your game and move on."
OraSure Technologies (OSUR): "No, no, no. That was one of the worst misquarters I've seen in ages." Mellanox Technologies (MLNX)

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